I had this idea for sitcom about a homeless tent city. It's no big secret that Los Angeles homeless population has exploded. To a point where they have their own area...multiple, in fact. Mostly there's downtown and the Valley. The sitcom would be a father and a teen son, whom after a shitty divorce the father gets taken for everything by a mail order Eastern European wife (who is in citizenship limbo). Rather than capitulate to the shrew wife...he hides his assets and disappears into homeless living. There he would meet fascinating characters and learn a bit about life...though...a lot should be played for laughs. Since California Gavin Newsome and L.A. mayor Garcetti are fucking useless, the Dad can keep whining about "those idiots" but also not bettering himself, even at the protest of his son. His son can go to homeless high school too. Since it essentially became its own city anyway. The biggest mined jokes of this would be that it could function well. A community is formed and they're some good hearted people and some really bad dudes as well. This microcosm humans create, we start to function as.
Now the Left probably will never find this funny. They use to. It was comedy gold. I could see Matt LeBlanc now...play the Dad. He did something similar with Joe Bologna in the late 90's.
The other thing...the biting truth. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have thought of this, but no one sponsor this...they'd think it were hate-filled. But it'd be like "Sanford and Son" where the joke isn't about being homeless. The comedy comes from living perfectly fine in poverty. The great Norman Lear wouldn't have the balls to tackle this...God love him. Because the Lefties in Hollywood lost their humor and sense of satire. There would be no agenda other than having laughs...however...they'd probably think we were laughing at them. This ISN'T comedy. They're just trying to make their situation better.
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