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Except if it is too similar to real life then it can't be "funny" any longer.
Totally disagree with that. The most funniest things, imho - the things that make me really belly laugh - are the things that manage to distil some kind of truth. Gallows humour, biting satire, farce, absurdism etc. - they're the things the jester dances around, telling truth to power. Great comedians have a knack of seeing things clearly - sometimes articulating a feeling we've always in some way registered but never been fully cognisant of. I love curb your enthusiasm, because Larry David just points out the absurdities of all those unwritten rules and petty hypocrisies we tend to get drawn into.
The biggest laugh I found in DLU was when the politicians told the crowd to not look up, not because it was aimed at a particular group - but because it was so absurd and totally something politicians of all stripes do all the time.