A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice A Day Unless It's Digital Rule

More me breaking down comedy until it’s completely unfunny, and then funny again. Easier to express as ‘Everybody gets to be the straight man.’ In comedies, and good films, characters are specific and blind to their specificity. Yet having whatever their weird philosophy, they are able to see the conflict in the other characters and thus play the straight man, doubling the joke – ‘wait that character thinks you’re crazy.’ Don’t take that as a reason to have a character actually say that line.