To him, disaster was seldom funny.
If anything went wrong, it would probably just float to the ground like a deflated balloon, so picturing any kind of disaster was almost funny – like, "Here's this big, billowy aircraft and it's having some problems!
If you can get started on perfecting the squirrel-kabob now, people will eventually stop criticizing you and rather be drawn to your mastery, sing your praises, and champion you as the disaster zone M.V.P. Funny how quickly social conventions can change when everything falls to shit.
A funny disaster story is universally relatable and can do a lot more to bring two people together than a polite, generic discussion.
"As you know, to tell 18-year-olds that we're cool and funny is disaster," said Charles Rosen, president at Amalgamated.
But the alternative isn't any better: natural disasters aren't particularly funny.
"At the end of the day I'm writing comedy," Simon said "If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny".
Written by David Crane (Friends) and co-produced with Showtime in America, it sounds like a recipe for disaster but is actually very funny.
Below are five stories of Tinder disaster that start out awkward, get funnier and funnier, and then actually leave you quite unsettled and disturbed.
At one point, the film presents subtitles to translate the street language, but that was a lot funnier when the disaster spoof "Airplane" did it for Barbara Billingsley ("I speak jive") 25 years ago.
