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musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited November 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
read a real facinating article in RS about how modern day, or current day comedy is not concerned at all with punchlines. Jokes dont revolve around that anymore. They talked to conan and he agreed.

Basically they are saying that comedy no longer is concerned with that, its concerned with portraying odd/wierd sequences and just odd pauses. They talked about The Line, and Lazy Sunday, or Judd Apatow flicks as examples. How the comedy is almost dry, its not out for a quick laugh, it wants to make you think.

So where do you go or what do you turn on for your laughs?

THe Onion?

Funny or Die?

South Park?

The Office?

Snl?

Another source?
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    Chappelle show was brilliant
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • unifiedsceneunifiedscene Posts: 462
    Even when comedy was all about punch lines it was all about the timing. Abbott and Costello didn't write "Who's on First?" they just nailed it.

    Arrested Development is gold. There's good standup comedy too.
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    two and a half men. its the show where every man wants to be charlie but realize theyre alan
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  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    I like Scrubs, makes me smile, laugh and occassionally think :)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • mertmert Posts: 167
    Scrubs is hilarious but also a bit of a drama..... All out comedy for me would have to be How I Met Your Mother. Awesome! ;)
  • vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    Flight of the Conchords - they use punchlines

    Arrested Development - most clever!
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  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    I like The Office (this season hasn't been the greatest, though). It's one of those comedies that loves milking awkward situations.
    So called "comedies" like Kath and Kim, however, make me want to blow my brains out.
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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    flight of the conchords
    the life and times of tim
    curb your enthusiasm (terryible's post reminded me...how could i forget this one!? :D)
  • TerryibleTerryible Posts: 462
    Curb your Enthusiasm - Larry David is the man
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Mock The Week
    Top Gear
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    South Park

    Old Eddie Murphy

    Sarah Palin
    NERDS!
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    jamie uk wrote:
    I like Scrubs, makes me smile, laugh and occassionally think :)
    I find the sad bits of Scrubs to be more effective than the funny bits :p I do like it a lot though.

    I just think the best episodes are the ones where you like, find that Dr Cox is human because he kills a patient and then hits the bottle etc and you want to die by the end of it.

    As for me, Stewart Lee is the funniest man alive in my opinion.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    Mock The Week
    Top Gear
    Frankie Boyle is the only funny person on Mock the Week in my opinion, most of it is cringe-worthy.

    As for the latter, well I don't want to bore you :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Frankie Boyle is the only funny person on Mock the Week in my opinion, most of it is cringe-worthy.
    Frankie Boyle and Hugh Dennis are comedic gold together. And whenever David Mitchell is on as a guest, it's perfect.

    And Dara O'Briain is a genius. :)
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    BOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!

    :D:D:D



    oh and Flight of the Conchords and The IT Crowd :D
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Frankie Boyle and Hugh Dennis are comedic gold together. And whenever David Mitchell is on as a guest, it's perfect.

    And Dara O'Briain is a genius. :)
    I like O'Briain's stand-up but he doesn't get enough speaking time on Mock the Week because of the melting pot of comedy egos :p Hugh Dennis is funny sometimes but not when he's being spontaneous. The thing where they walk back and forth to the microphone and say stuff is just awful :o
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    seinfeld cheers me up pretty quickly.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Britain is in serious need of Chris Morris again. His role in the IT Crowd was too small.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVibsNPXBx0&feature=related
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Frankie Boyle is the only funny person on Mock the Week in my opinion, most of it is cringe-worthy.

    As for the latter, well I don't want to bore you :)


    i really dont like Russell Howard at all... i like all the others though.

    I find Gina Yashere to be the least funniest person i've ever watched... and i once watched a 30 min documentary entitled "people in comas can't be funny" and even those poor coma victims were funnier than her.

    but as Frankie Boyle doesnt have his own show (yet) then Mock The Week it is :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Britain is in serious need of Chris Morris again. His role in the IT Crowd was too small.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVibsNPXBx0&feature=related

    he's one notch above the Yashere notch in terms of funny for me... sorry matey :o
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    i really dont like Russell Howard at all... i like all the others though.

    I find Gina Yashere to be the least funniest person i've ever watched... and i once watched a 30 min documentary entitled "people in comas can't be funny" and even those poor coma victims were funnier than her.

    but as Frankie Boyle doesnt have his own show (yet) then Mock The Week it is :)
    Oh god yeah, Gina Yashere is terrible. I don't mean to be sexist but a huge majority of female stand-ups are because they have the "I'm a female stand-up, not just a stand-up so that's what all my jokes will be about" syndrome.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    he's one notch above the Yashere notch in terms of funny for me... sorry matey :o
    Aye well, he's an acquired taste I guess. I think he's heroic :D

    I mean this is just so awkward but I find it hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVibsNPXBx0&feature=related
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Oh god yeah, Gina Yashere is terrible. I don't mean to be sexist but a huge majority of female stand-ups are because they have the "I'm a female stand-up, not just a stand-up so that's what all my jokes will be about" syndrome.

    reminds me of my not very well thought out thread i had called "men are funnier than women" in which i tried to make the point that men are, in general, funnier than women...

    and we all know your mother comes from Nigeria Gina.. stop using it in every fucking 'joke'
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    reminds me of my not very well thought out thread i had called "men are funnier than women" in which i tried to make the point that men are, in general, funnier than women...

    and we all know your mother comes from Nigeria Gina.. stop using it in every fucking 'joke'
    In fairness, Lenny Henry is guilty of that :D
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    In fairness, Lenny Henry is guilty of that :D


    true... so are we going to start a thread called "white people are much funnier than black people" then? ;):D

    how Lenny Henry can look himself in the mirror after earning a fortune doing strange vulture noises defies belief!!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    true... so are we going to start a thread called "white people are much funnier than black people" then? ;):D

    how Lenny Henry can look himself in the mirror after earning a fortune doing strange vulture noises defies belief!!
    Hah, no, because even though a lot of black comedians do seem to only talk about that, most are infinitely funnier than Lenny Henry :p

    I remember reading that Bill Hicks once told a good friend of his, a black man, to cut out "that dumb nigger shit" from his routine and he DID because he knew Hicks wasn't being racist, he was referring to the whole pandering to a white audience as being the funny, jolly black man a la Sammy Davis Jr, and that seems to be Lenny Henry's role, the safe guy. As long as a comedian is funny as hell and provocative, they can tell as many black jokes as they want as far as I'm concerned. Def Comedy Jam has me in stitches every time I see it, even though there's always about one solitary white guy in the audience so presumably the material isn't written for me :D

    Which reminds me, this man was a tragic loss. I must have seen this clip a hundred times and it still cracks me up.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RviYo3WsqjU
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    I like O'Briain's stand-up but he doesn't get enough speaking time on Mock the Week because of the melting pot of comedy egos :p Hugh Dennis is funny sometimes but not when he's being spontaneous. The thing where they walk back and forth to the microphone and say stuff is just awful :o
    The band was... Sha-Waddy... Waddy...

    Always cracks me up. :D

    Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnbM3ODdARc
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • ThecureThecure Posts: 814
    i personally think the funnist person on Tv is David Letterman while teh funnist show is 30 Rock. teh funnist person i hav eever seen live is still Don rickles. teh man just makes me laugh
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Sitcoms:

    Gavin and Stacey
    Flight of the Conchords
    Lead Balloon
    Summer Heights High
    The IT Crowd
    The Mighty Boosh (pre-season 3)

    Comedians:

    Dylan Moran
    Bill Bailey
    Tim Minchin
    Simon Amstell (TV presenter)

    TV shows:

    Mock the Week (although I have to agree with J and Dunk about that Gina lady)
    Top Gear
    Have I got News for You
    Never Mind the Buzzcocks
    Argumental
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