NOT FUNNY.

does the Venture Bros count as "grown up"? i like that one.

yes. and its genius. metalocalypse is too.

people who say "puns are the lowest form of humor"

people who be hatin' and not celebratin'

the truth is i probably havent really seen any of those cartoons

ATHF is funny for autistic, 13yo stoners

i saw a trailer for a dane cook film. him.

ATHF is not funny
one big reason being that there's such weak context
anytime you want to do the 'insane, irreverent and arbitrary' schtick, there has to be much stronger context
space ghost C2C had that... and it was way way WAY funnier and more entertaining as a result
ATHF is just a huge mess

people who say "sarcasm is the lowest form of humor"

yeah, 'cause it's puns.

the "Phil Collins speech" in American Psycho

nah, that's deep

Keegan Michael Key, presenter of the Planet's Funniest Animals.

Painfully unfunny. And the more unfunny he gets, the louder the crowd applauds because some dude is holding up a "laugh" sign behind the camera. Not only that, but he EXPLAINS jokes. You don't explain jokes! Never! ("My cat invited 100 other cats for a party, but nobody came... That's what happens when you throw a POOL PARTY for CATS!" (silence) "THEY HATE WATER!" (audience absolutely explodes with laughter) )

Poor guy probably thinks he's the shit, but man... :-(

Haha, I've never seen that but it sounds kind of awesome, unfunny shoving unfunniness into unfunny jokes by overexplaining them...I like that stuff.

In HS me and my friends made a fake "America's Funniest Home Videos," and the kid playing Bob Saget help up this Monopoly house and did this monologue with too many pauses: "See this house?...It's my producer's house...My producer is poor!...That's why he lives in this house!....My producer can't afford a big house...This is his house...You know, my producer was telling me he lived in this house, and I laughed because he's poor!...He doesn't have any money so his house is small!" And that's a nostalgic thing for me so maybe that's why yr thing is making me laff Stan M.

:-)

(I know not all of these shows are unfunny, I don't get depressed by Tom Bergeron.)

Are you talking about the Animal Planet host that does kind of a combination of news report/funniest home videos thing? Because he is not funny. Just aimed at small children and shut-in's.

"I guess not every dog has its day. Especially when it's raining cats and dogs, and you've just stepped into a poodle..." etc

s1ocki, what do you define as grown-up cartoons? you mean like king of the hill? or like fritz the cat?

im SO over nick swardson

Chelsea Handler

xpost - planet's funniest animals is fricking HILARIOUS with the sound off. but when it's on - SO NOT FUNNY

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Arrested Development

NOT FUNNY.

I received the complete box set for Christmas and it is fair to say I was pretty fucking pleased. I had never seen more than a few seconds of it (for various reasons) but here I had several days of solitary at-home on-call duty awaiting in that grim interregnum between Christmas and New Year and what better way, you might think, than to while it all away with every episode of the "smartest show on TV" or whatever the fuck people say about it. People have said quite a lot about it, along these lines. I lasted three episodes and finally turned off the TV, slack-jawed, just unable to understand how this show corresponded with the descriptions I'd heard. Every character, every flashback, every joke, is so painfully obvious and overplayed, it's like a British pantomime. Which I love, but only once a year. Yes Bateman is great but he is NOT FUNNY particularly. What in the fuck???????

shut the fuck up.

sorry, i was just trying to be NOT FUNNY

you should give it a few more episodes

transatlantic high-5 to Tracer

So I can continue to watch David Cross be "wacky"?? So I can continue not laughing whenever someone hilariously says "homosexual"???? I'd rather get my printer's color management working properly TBH.

yeah, banana stand jokes, Segway jokes, magic jokes, jokes about the SEC, jokes about model homes, jokes about people who wear jeans cutoffs 24/7=so obvious and overplayed

TBH

"You may agree or disagree as u please, fux0rz"

It doesn't matter what the material is if everyone (besides Bateman and his son) is so determined to play a stylized Type instead of a human being, if everyone (besides Bateman and his son) gives off the unmistakable impression of being above the character they're playing. Like between takes I can just see them chortling amongst themselves, "God, my character is so fucking dumb, isn't that hilarious??"

Maybe this is how certain movies and shows and directors get a reputation for being "smart", like the Coen Brothers - they feature many deliberately dumb characters about whom they go great lengths to assure you they are personally far superior to.

you sound kind of superior yourself tbh.

yeah, just about all comedies have people acting foolishly. (I have only seen a handful of AD episodes btw.)

i was never a huge fan or anything but what exactly is wrong with laughing at wacky characters? especially if the writing is sharp, which i thought it was. seems like you're expecting chekhov out of a satire! x-post

I would've been disappointed if I'd been expecting Taxi out of it.

yeah taxi was a laugh riot. Woah that latka sure is foreign.

i can't believe there's a comedy out there that expects you to laugh at the characters! what will they think of next!

i think that was the point x-post

I think TH is talking about how laced w/ contempt the laughter (or the show) is.

Man, I hate when humor is mean and laced with contempt.

i laugh at the show because it's funny--not because i think the characters are inferior or below me.

I thought Taxi was funny.

It doesn't matter what the material is if everyone (besides Bateman and his son) is so determined to play a stylized Type instead of a human being

this is such a weird criticism of a comedy

It's almost like these people are acting!

Tracer, did you ask for the box or was it a Christmas surprise?

My brother watched the first ten episodes at his friend's insistence & just could not get into it. That was far enough in to start the whole "hermano" story arc, and to have seen Gob perform on stage, both of which were big sells for me getting into the show. So I had to face the idea that some people just can't enjoy Arrested Development. That's fine. I mean I have gotten enough shit in my life about not liking Led Zeppelin to know getting that sort of opinion waved in your face all the time is annoying as hell. What I am saying is, Tracer, it's ok not to like Arrested Development.

Good job, guys. You have invalidated all of his criticisms, and now he will surely enjoy the show.

Yeah, comedy is one of those things you can talk people into liking -- people either find something funny or they don't. xp

can = can't, argh

Yes. I mean, look, some of you laugh at it. That is great! I really don't mind! I just completely cannot comprehend it!! Ultimately one cannot perhaps explain these things!

maybe i should list all of my criticisms of granny dainger so you guys can invalidate them and then i will surely enjoy his posts.

you clearly "get it", it just looks like youre too busy thinking to enjoy it

xp

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