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― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

not funny.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

NOT FUNNY:

Curb Your Enthusiasm.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Marcello's list OTM.

doglatin is insane.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

otm

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy cow, Drawn Together is spectacularly awful! Worst fucking show on the air! Nothing remotely comes close! No, I'm not given to mild hyperbole but DT and overheated insults have a magnetic attraction to each other, can't resist! The whole "kiddie-shit-gone-perverse" meme might've had some charge in the sixties, maybe even five years ago, but that cow's been milked dry! Hey animator dudes, it's OK, you've probably been adults for like ten-fifteen years now, so don't have to symbolically kill your childhoods again and again and again any more!

And am I imagining things or does Doug Benson have the worst toupee in Christendom? And he's like, what, forty?

Upright Citizen's Brigade. UTTER SHIT. Absurdity isn't comedy ENOUGH.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

My Family is ok if there's nothing better on.

Oh I can't believe we've gotten this far without mentioning "My Hero" which is now in it's fifth or sixth series and they've even replaced Ardal O'Hanlan with the gay dude out of Thin Blue Line/Gimme Gimme Gimme. It is seriously seriously not funny.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Curb is not comedy, it is farce and that's why I don't like it. It's the opposite of Family Guy in that it's all about "hilarious" situations but there aren't really any jokes in it. Family Guy has loads of jokes but the plotlines are very loose.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Curb is not comedy, it is farce

what the fuck are you smoking, son?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

doglatin's views on this are exactly like his views on dance and electronic music.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, every time i've seen a few moments of that My Hero show, i've wondered "how could they make this any worse?"

and now i know!

wtf u smokin' otm

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

and even the situations aren't that hilarious. matey-boy just goes round behaving like a dick until people get pissed off and then next time he sees them he's all "don't be mad at me, i'm a liberal, i'm a good guy!" but it doesn't work and they hit him/let the air out his tyres/push in front of him in a queue/spit in his schnapps.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Curb is farce. Farce is comedy.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

doglatin's views on this are exactly like his views on dance and electronic music.

Ypu. Substance over style please.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

that was meant to say "yup"

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

larry david, forever saying things like "don't be mad at me, i'm a liberal, i'm a good guy!"

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

larry david, forever saying things like "don't be mad at me, i'm a liberal, i'm a good guy!"

yeh that's cye.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Family Guy = substance lol

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

at least it has jokes.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

how does 'hilarious situations, no jokes' equate 'style over substance' and 'loads of jokes but no plot' = substanstial?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

a "joke" doesn't have to mean "set up --> punchline".

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarcasm < Puns < Farce < Slapstick < Knock Knock < Nonsense < Badgers

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

errr ok.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

how does 'hilarious situations, no jokes' equate 'style over substance' and 'loads of jokes but no plot' = substanstial?

Because surely funny = stuff that is funny like jokes or funny ideas as opposed to some guy going round and being chastised (quite rightly) for being an uppity shitbag.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

surely funny = stuff that I/you/we laugh, smirk or smile at?

this shocking revelation could really undermine the purpose of this thread tho i fear.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

This debate is certainly NOT FUNNY.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not supposed to be.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not supposed to be a "debate" either. List things that are NOT FUNNY instead of burbling on about nothing.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The Mornington Crescent thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I forgot ILX was just about lists, not debating anything.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Dissensus

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Still not over them?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit Louis it was PROTESTACULAR.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Careerist trolls

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

teh ironing!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

teh ironing is always funny, kit!

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

badgers can be sarcastic too

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

teh ironing is funnier than teh_kit, at least.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

All "comedy" plots in EastEnders

most OTM.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

why then are wimmin never funny?

xxxpost

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the Jennifer Saunders Barclaycard ad is like some kind of alternate universe version of unfunny in that i can't even understand what's the funny supposed to be.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i think we can all agree there at least.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, yeah, OTM! and i thought i was stupid for not 'getting' it.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit Louis it was PROTESTACULAR.

-- a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (crucial.bonu...), September 27th, 2006.

Not when Tobias Funke said it. :-D

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i only saw (a bit of) 'arrested development' for the first time on sunday. it was ok but not the yuck-fest i'd been promised. by louis jagger.

a lot of the jokes are callbacks to earlier jokes, to a point where i could totally imagine not getting half of the first shows in series three without having watched the first two series. also, i got the dvd of series three a couple of weeks ago and have already watched it twice, and ended up watching the shows on bbc2 again the other night - the density of jokes in the show is dizzying - not just background jokes a la The Simpsons (a charlie-brown-esque george michael walking past a huge doghouse still being my favourite), but lines in the show that you miss through laughing at the line immediately preceding it.

arrested devlopment is easily my favourite tv show since chappelle.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The holocaust

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I hoped I'd never have to say this, but TOUCHE Louis.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

most US network tv is so fugly is part of the problem

this stuck out to me. serious? cos everything i've ever seen on BBCA looks like it was shot by some trainee soap crew. is it some kind of transfer thing? or eye-acclimation? or ur rong, or what?

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

two and a half men. unbelievable this exists.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

US comedy always looks like it's filmed on a set. i think it's mostly just what yr used to but british TV generally looks like it takes place the real world.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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