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Early Steve Martin
feminine product commercials
The Daily Show

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

So much negativity on the NOT FUNNY thread - come on! What's funny?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes
yes
and yes

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris Morris
Steve Coogan (still, just)
Armando Ianucci (in writing more than on screen)
Richard Herring
Stewart Lee
Simon Munnery
Pegg/Stevenson/Wright collectively (Spaced)

the guy(s) behind Weebl & Bob
the guy(s) behind Homestar Runner
Mike Judge / King Of The Hill team
the 43 strong team who write Scrubs

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

SCTV,
This Hour Has Twenty Two Minutes
Dubya

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran (i.e. Black Books)

Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews (writers of Father Ted, co-writers of I'm Alan Partridge)

Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant (fuck the naysayers, the Office hype IS pretty much justified)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

gilda radner
judge joe brown
"celebrity jeopardy" on snl

― kirsten k (kirsten), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my god, I just remembered this commercial that was on during the NBC Nightly News last night as I was getting ready to go out. It was unreal!

The scene is Old Faithful, and the voice over says something like, "Ever wonder why old faithful remains so regular?" Cut to park ranger pouring Metamucel into the hole. Cut to the geiser erupting. Cut to crowd of people cheering.

I thought that was very very funny.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Barry Sobel on Dr. Katz

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The News (otherwise known as "The Daily Show")

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

if the NOT FUNNY thread gets more posts than this one then that would be a pretty poor statement about the collective frame of mind of ILX!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

http://server1.hypermart.net/alf/picture/alf1.gif
WILLIE!!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Woody Allen's Love and Death ("Ah, there's something about Mozart..." "You're probably responding to his music.")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

TV Comedy Ten:

1. League of Gentlemen
2. Brass Eye
3. The Office
4. Father Ted
5. Black Books
6. Banzai
7. Beavis & Butthead
8. Family Guy
9. The Simpsons
10. Eddie Izzard (even though "Circle" was a bit weak)

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh geez, I just realized McLusty said The Daily Show in post #1! D'oh!

That's funny, 'cause Alf was never funny, but Aaron posting him to this thread made me laugh out loud. HA!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Bite my shiny metal ass!

http://home.pfaffenhofen.de/lehmayr/Futurama/bender.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

reeves & mortimer [bang bang even more than the smell of and both far more than anything else they did/do]
judge joe brown
harry hill [still]
friends [haven't seen any of the recenter ones but it has made me laugh]
seinfeld

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

These two lines from King of the Hill...

"If you weren't my son, I'd hug you right now."

"Just when I thought you couldn't say anything stupider, you keep on talking."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Life (bloody hippy, am I)
Dogs swimming, it's the frantic-ness of their paw movements

Oh, I have to admit that I laughed out loud whilst watching You've Been Framed the other day, my standards are very very low.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

hooray for harry hill as well. Don't see why so many people hate him. Wasn't too keen on TV Burp but I think it was the subject matter (soaps and pop TV) which I know next to nothing about.

Is Kumars at no 42 any good? What about Phoenix Nights?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

As an old English guy, I have to mention Tommy Cooper, Peter Cook, Stan Laurel, Eric Morecambe and Frankie Howerd. Also the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and Bilko, though they're a bit less English.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Looney Tunes!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Goon Show!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

phoenix nights was very good...so was that other peter kay one.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

oh...Grounded for Life! I love this show.

I second Looney Tunes

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The first season of Malcolm in the Middle (it's gotten AWFUL lately)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Tex Avery funnier than Looney Tunes

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Yatta

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Dexter's Lab (sometimes even funnier than a lot of the so-called adult-orientated animation comedys)
Powerpuff Girls (same again)
Johnny Bravo.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

James Kochalka comics! and I found "Fair Weather" by joe Matt quite amusing.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

funny animated:

Ren & Stimpy
Space Ghost: Coast To Coast
Daria
Downtown (not often tho)
Dilbert
that one that was on late night ITV, drawn horrendously on purpose and American (so no, not 2DTV)
The Critic (well i never saw it but i bet it was good)

funny puppets:
Sifl & olly
the Muppets (you can't deny that "Not now Frog, HiiiiiiiiiiiYA!" is not a moment of comedy genius)
Zippy
Nooky Bear
the Wu Tang puppets in that Crank Yankers thing

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

dog latin is on the money regarding Dexter, and even more so with the Powerpuff Girls - sometimes the sharpest thing on TV

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

SOOTY OWNZ!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

heheh - steve did you see the christmas Dexter's? He beats up Santa and shaves his beard off.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Dexter but sometimes I like the Justice Friends more...the Infraggable Krunk! C'mon now! That's classic!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Johnny Bravo has his moments too....there's loads of new shit on CN e.g. Time Squad but i never have time to watch it

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris Farley
Harvey Sid Fisher
Milk and Cheese

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

OMELLETE DU FROMAGE!!!!! (sic)

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Funny:
Old Simpson's Episodes
King of the Hill
Barney Miller
The Royal Tannenbaums
The Life of Brian
South Park, at moments (The gerbil, Lemmiwinks, traveling though the slave's rectum ona quest was far too amusing - and the sond was catchy, too)
First few seasons of SNL
Mary Tyler Moore
Cheers - The Early Years
Douglas Adams
Lemony Snicket
Judy Bloom (Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing; Superfudge)
Naguib Mahfouz
Spider Robinson
Most things my students write (Q: Who was the first person to orbit the earth? A: Gagarin's statue was the first person to orbit the earth. - Student was referring to image caption which read "Statute of Yuri Gagarin, first man to orbit the earth". Sad.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

internet crepes

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, just Love & Death.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, and the Arr Ghous adverts I mean.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

People falling off bicycles at traffic lights.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Sealab 2021

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

People falling off bicycles at zebra crossings.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Lego Auschwitz (a certain KIND of funny tho)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

It could be funny-peculiar.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

it is, actually for a while i thought it was just some internet prank thing set up by some crazy guy with too much time on his hands attempting the very blackest of satirical shock-humour...as it turns out it was dreamt up by a Polish jew keen to try and increase the awareness of the holocaust and its implications among children...which i suppose is even less funny ha ha really

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

this is a bit particular, but - N.E.R.D, "Baby Doll" made me laugh a lot the other day..

Beavis & Butt-head, and King of the Hill too.

the Blode and the kittens and etc on rathergood.com

The Obscure Store most days

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Office Space

― daria g, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to Buchenwald and the visitor centre housed cartoon diagrams of how people were executed. Hmmm.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Just remembered: 'Men In Coats'.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

+ "Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law"
+ Kids in the Hall
+ Home Star Runner, NO DOUBT (esp. Strong Bad's Email)
+ Safe Men
+ Flirting With Disaster
+ Charlie Kaufman on any topic besides his relationship w/ his brother

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

old simpsons. futurama. family guy. the office. very old friends. frasier. cheers. the coen brothers. being john malkovitch. seinfeld.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

dad's army.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Christine Baranski as a singer with cancer on SNL.

― estela, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

thinking and talking about the following TV shows = funny:

Gilligan's Island, Charles In Charge, Degrassi Junior High, Who's The Boss, Married: With Children, Home Improvement

actual said TV shows = NOT funny

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

home improvement was ok.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The PJs

you remember, the claymated Eddie Murphy...

it wasnt actually THAT bad, there were dubious accusations from people like Spike Lee of negative stereotyping of urban black citizens but it continues to mystify me why and how it seems to have vanished off the face of the planet...is it still on Fox in the States? havent seen it on in the UK for over 2 years now

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

home improvement was ok

Tim Allen in prison is funnier

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Married With Children supposed to be like it is or what? My Dad finds it absolutely hilarious but I think he thinks it's being purposefully cheesy and tacky but when I see it it does look like an unter-low-budget Roseanne.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as I recall Married With Children was very funny sometimes. Roseanne was never funny.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

well i loved Roseanne as a kid and i didnt notice MWC on here until my teens, by which point i wouldve (and did ) despised it so hard to compare for me

the Simpsons parody of MWC in the 'Homer becomes astronaut' says it all

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheers is STILL funny i find, i watch the repeats on Paramount now and then...maybe its just the nostalgic revisitation induced, but there always was something likeable about it...its always cool to see Frasier before he got his own gig and observe the differences etc.

another more under-rated funny US show is Ed - real lightweight, even schmaltzy afternoon stuff but it benefits from a creative writing team who can make dramacom about a young lawyer rebuilding his broken life whilst surrounded by kooky smalltowners without resorting to contrived Mcbealesque zaniness

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheers is definitely still funny, though it helps to watch episodes all the way through as it's that kind of scriptwriting and just relying on the characters' schticks can get wearing. Some, like Sam's womanising and Carla's... everything were always a little wearing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

the pjs was cancelled. i thought it was okay.

i personally enjoy King of the Hill immensely

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone else (momus?) ever seen the sketch comedy show that the Yatta dance number is from? I'm almost certain it's Japanese. They used to play it on the Asian television station in Oakland, and I always watched all of it and it was hilarious even though I couldn't understand a single word of it. The running sketches with the big-foreheaded-boss-character-talking-to-someone-offscreen were the best!

― Dan I., Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:51 (twenty-three years ago)

ILx

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Beavis and Butthead

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

South Park is under-rated on this thread...so many times its been the sharpest show ever - wittier than you many think, unique and innovative to an extent

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hey lets shag ass" - from the Tenenbaums
National Lampoons Vacation
Caddyshack
Simpsons
Dumb and Dumber
Seinfeld
The Muppet Show
SNL

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

EVERYTHING stevem said (although i have never seen LEGO Auschwitz) - plus Moe, Lenny and Carl from the simpsons, "the Jerk", Peter Kaye and BMX'ing on poppers.

― james (james), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

the last few episodes of the first series of Popular :)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

My boss was upset with me this morning because I didn't watch it. Then he went on a tirade about the Democratic Post (ie: Washington Post) and how they weren't supportive of the address.

But, nickalicious, did you play the state of the union drinking game? I learned about it on NPR.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

did anyone catch how Georgie said "pennisula" ? pennishhula.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Roseanne was funny sometimes but towards the end especially it got really dramatic and tense and hard for me to watch.

Also funny:
Mr. Show
agree with National Lampoons
Wet, Hot American Summer
Office Space

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.peacockskirt.com/cateyes/chknbr1.jpg

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

It would maul and peck you to death. NOT FUNNY!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

the chickenbear would do no such thing. He would merely ponder aloud why you thought he might maul and peck you to death and wonder who this reflected more negatively on, you or him.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

*runs away and hides from scary 'friend of chicken bear' woman*

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fax Machine Beat-Down from Office Space is one of the funniest moments of anything ever. All I have to do is summon the memory to my mind and I laugh quite hysterically.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a quiet guy in my office called Gareth Keenan. I find this funny. He doesn't.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

lara, befriend the chickenbear. c'mon, s/he won't bite.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

You're absolutely right DallasDeadGirl/That Girl (what do I call you??)

The Chicken Bear and I are off to the pub now to get better acquainted. I was meant to be meeting a boy. Alone. But I'm sure he won't mind the company.

Night night.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Roseanne was one of the great mainline sitcoms from about the start of season 2 to early in the penultimate season. It went downhill worse than anything ever, I think, and the last series was unspeakably bad.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for the memory, nickalicious. I just spit tea over my keyboard and screen when the image returned to my mind.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Banzai,for sure.Jackass makes me laugh out loud,but that's because I'm a poor excuse for a human bieng that finds that sort of stuff amusing.The Steve-O dvd had some really borderline content,the man is lower than a limbo dancing snake's armpit in a diving bell!

Steve-O,a true hero!!!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Thursday, 30 January 2003 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Happotai

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 30 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Preston Sturges.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 January 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Yes, Preston Sturges!

One of the funniest episodes of "Cheers" was on TV Land last night. Frasier and Lilith's bachelor and bachelorette parties. Great writing from top to bottom, with sooo many hilarious lines. Frasier's quoting "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" is one of the best things ever.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

My wife and I have been watching several Shaun the Sheep shorts (7 minutes long) each night, looking for badly-needed laughter, and finding it very often. We both laughed especially hard at Little Sheep of Horrors.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 8 October 2018 21:55 (seven years ago)

<3 shaun the sheep

― estela, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 22:52 (seven years ago)

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