The Egyptian historical and dramatic series may have met fierce competition from the Syrian TV series, as well as in the drama, but they have been on the throne of comedy series for many years.
This was until the year 2020 came to reveal the truth that many may have wanted to turn a blind eye to, which is that Egyptian comedy series suffers from a very big writing crisis, and it has become not funny comic series.
Diarrhea and recurrent stories
The crisis of comedy series accumulated over years of ease, repetition and recycling of the same plots until we found an important dramatic season, such as Ramadan, devoid of a real comedy series around which many gather, and here we are now after this season and the release of more than one comic series such as "Jamjoom Bam Bam" and "Al Harami" We suffer from the same crisis.
And most comedy series have become dependent on "banter" or jokes on the basis of which the scene is constructed and not the other way around. Usually, comedy series or films write their scenes like any other work, and then the appropriate "banners" are found for each scene in a convenient way for it, but in " Jamjoom and Bam Bam, for example, we find that the scenes are completely empty and have no purpose other than to tell a joke that may attract some laughs.
Even these banners have become dependent at the present time on the most circulated (trend) on social media or common jokes, which unfortunately killed a circulation until they became ridiculous, especially as they were repeated several times within the same work, as happened in the series "Harami", where it was used Jokes about the Corona virus and warns of it continuously, although the length of the episodes is not likely to be repeated, as the length of one episode was only ten minutes.
The same thing happened in the Ramadan series, especially the series "Men of the House", which witnessed a great public anger against its industry because of the silliness of its scenes and the performance of its heroes, until its hero Ahmed Fahmy apologized on social networking sites that the series was really good luck.
Recycle Casters
One of the most important defects of the Egyptian series in general is the reuse of actors in the same roles that they succeeded in before. This happened before with Bayoumi Fouad, who continued to appear in almost the same roles since his star in the series "The Great Awi" with Ahmed Makki, and here he is It is happening now with Muhammad Salam in the series "Jamjoom Wam Bam", in which he plays the role of Bam Bam, an uneducated young man who depends on his livelihood on "lightheadedness" and lightness, which is the same role he played years ago in the series "Nelly and Sherihan" in 2016.
This is in addition to being definitely boring to the viewers, but it is a drain on the talents of the actors, and a refusal to exploit their abilities and experience them in different roles, which then leads to their absence from the screen, and their transformation into the usual duplicate faces.
Funny non-comedy series
Contrary to previous experiences, we will find in front of us the series "B 100 Wesh", which is a work that clearly does not belong to the genre of comedy, but rather is closer to the thriller series and crimes, and despite that it was the funniest series in Ramadan 2020, and it attracted many viewers because of its comedic sense. .
What distinguished the series from the comedy series presented at the same time was that it was based on a really strong scenario, a work that was able to attract the viewer in different ways, with a coherent story that moves from point to point in a series, but at the same time its events marred with lightness and gentle jokes that then turned into trends Indeed, on social networking sites because of the audience's admiration for it, many even demanded the return of the series with a second part.
The second reason is that he does not rely on professional comedians, as both Yassin and Nelly Karim are not known for presenting comedies before, and they are not experienced in throwing vibes or jokes, so they delivered them smoothly and easily without fabrication, unlike what happens with comedians, both of them It came out of his skin or his comfort zone, and appeared in a new image that really liked the onlookers.
The crisis of the Egyptian comedy series needs an actual revolution in writing scenarios, and the book abandoned the way of writing inverted that builds stories on slogans, and resorting to the sound image to write coherent texts that deserve to appear on the screen and mixing them with jokes naturally without fabricating or attracting laughter by force from viewers.