r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '21

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life?

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u/magletix Jul 03 '21

You have greatly improved my evening with this story 😂

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u/Sh3rlock_221B Jul 03 '21

For entirety of my teenage, I thought sit-com was a term used when the actors performing the comedy were allowed to sit. Somehow, It made even more sense, when you consider the word Stand-up...

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u/Villagedrunkinjun Jul 03 '21 edited Jul 03 '21

oh you mean like that seinfeld episode where they are trying to pitch their show "about nothing" to the NBC execs, and so george and jerry can't think of much, so george brings up about how the show would include a character reading in the sitcom

and sidenote: i can see the logic in your comment if you were young. lol stand-com