People whose life sucks more than yours

 If you've ever been to a group therapy / church-testimony session, there's  all these people with horrible problems that make good stories.

There's a "life sucks and then you die" sitcom when TV was on a roll and the simpsons were a thing, when that fat lady was funny.

But you prolly never heard of it, I didn't until the reruns showed up late at night.

Grace Under Fire S05E14 Down in the Boondocks - video dailymotion

I wonder how "Sanford and Son" ended. Badly, as I recall, they kept hiring new actors to fill in the dead spots and make it more politically correct.

The running joke about naive police and staying out of the neighborhood at night, was replaced with people of different colors moving in and getting their chance to rant at the camera.

Well anyway, "Brett Butler" was on a show where they'd let her be funny and then parade a lot of people through the scene who weren't funny, to lend atmosphere and 

(Is my spacebar dying or did more tiny bugs move in last night?)

Unfortunately most people associate the star with the writers of a show.

Good job, writers.

Poor Brett.