Top comedy hits funny bone again

It was a notable week in comedy. The Office screened for the last time in the USA. The first trailer emerged of America’s take on Gavin & Stacey. It was the 15th anniversary of the final Seinfeld.

But overshadowing all of that was the long-running sitcom that is English football, as all of our favourite characters got together for a dramatic season finale.

Every comedy eventually runs out of things to say. Seinfeld acknowledged this reality in its own finale, when it went out debating the top button placement on George Costanza’s shirt, the same way it introduced itself, nine years earlier.