I'd like to add that comedy is often a powerful force for social or political commentary, partly because humour is employed as a way of coping with the underlying bleaker / darker aspects of life. Reason why many of the best English language movies are comedies, IMO (:
On a more related note, I've RP-ed in situations which started out "serious", dissolved into general slapstick silliness and then curiously went back up the scale amidst all that because the characters were learning, changing, in very small ways. All RP is meaningful as long as  it's your characters taking the story wherever it needs to go.Â
My character admittedly hasn't been in RP all that much and all she's been doing is talking, writing and getting friends drunk - slice-of-life stuff, basically - and I'm finding that it's actually laying a lot of groundwork for her character development!
On a more related note, I've RP-ed in situations which started out "serious", dissolved into general slapstick silliness and then curiously went back up the scale amidst all that because the characters were learning, changing, in very small ways. All RP is meaningful as long as  it's your characters taking the story wherever it needs to go.Â
My character admittedly hasn't been in RP all that much and all she's been doing is talking, writing and getting friends drunk - slice-of-life stuff, basically - and I'm finding that it's actually laying a lot of groundwork for her character development!
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