“American sensibilities about comedy change so rapidly, especially in the cultural centers on the East Coast and West Coast where people are always looking for the next new style of humor, whereas Neil Simon’s brand of humour is pretty unchanging,” suggests Susan Koprince, a professor of English at the Unversity of North Dakota; while Matthew Maguire, director of the theatre programme at Fordham University, says, "It’s clear from the ascendancy of certain types of comedy, like the trend exemplified by Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, The 40-Year-Old Virgin,Knocked Up, that what audiences are seeking in humor is getting more raw and edgy than Simon’s work." The audience that do like his work, though - assuming they’re not dead or worse, as Michael Riedel suggests, in Florida - needed to be told that it was happening. Full Article at The Stage