Comedy will ruin my career

Ok, so i'm in the middle of a particularly boring degree, and i'm supposed to be applying some kind of work ethic here. The thing is, i once saw a tv show way back in the early 90s that has through a process of osmosis been slowly destroying my work ethic that has been lovingly passed down to me through generations of working class heroes. Here's where the lineage ends folks, and here's one of a myriad reasons why.....