Most unfunny comedy?
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Took the words right out of my mouth. These films need to be purged from the earthThePoodonkis said:
Seinfeld. The stand-up segments can be pretty good but the bits where they sit around doing weak observational humour and that annoying guitar lick every 5 seconds just makes me change channel.
I have an embarrassingly low threshold for cringe related humour, so most American mainstream comedies are out for me, and a lot of British stuff too. I like my humour surrealist!
(When I say low I mean Mr.Bean feels so awkward for me to watch it makes me ill. I can't bare to watch anything based around embarrassment or social awkwardness. I can't last one minute in either version of The Office.)
But for actual bad comedy I'm going with some homegrown Australian fail. Fat Pizza, and Bogan Pride. Fat Pizza's first season was ok. The rest of it? Unwatchable. Bogan Pride was unwatchable from the start.
(When I say low I mean Mr.Bean feels so awkward for me to watch it makes me ill. I can't bare to watch anything based around embarrassment or social awkwardness. I can't last one minute in either version of The Office.)
But for actual bad comedy I'm going with some homegrown Australian fail. Fat Pizza, and Bogan Pride. Fat Pizza's first season was ok. The rest of it? Unwatchable. Bogan Pride was unwatchable from the start.
I never liked The Office. The real Office, I've never seen the American one because after what they did when they decided they'd like a go at Red Dwarf I don't trust them to do good British comedy well and I expect them to do bad British comedy worse. But that's subjective, isn't it? I like Ricky Gervais - Extras was very good, and I enjoy his stand up - but The Office didn't do it for me.
The "... Movie" series is another one, but it sometimes has some amusing bits. I liked the random gangsta pirates section in Epic Movie.
I didn't find the new Pink Panther too bad (this is the second one, not seen the first one) but certainly not amazing.
Two And A Half Men... what the fuck, man? I've only seen in recently (my girlfriend likes it and I've seen it at her place) and it's... god. Just awful. On a related story, I watched a couple of episodes of Friends with the girlfriend recently for the first time in years. I laughed. It was actually really good. But I'm pretty damn certain they were early episodes... so I figure there was probably some crap creep that went on as the series progressed.
The League of Gentlemen RULED. It's called black humour, man (as in dark, not as in Afro-Caribbean). And it KICKS ARSE.
Napoleon Dynamite... that's an odd one. I watched it on my own and got a "Wtf" reaction. Not funny. I'd heard about it via a group of new mates (when I was in a show) who had been quoting it, and their quotes were funny. The film was not. But I got back and we talked about it and the quotes were funny. I've not seen it again since but I think with a group of mates it might be funnier. I don't know. Suffice to say I watched the whole film through without laughing, which should be the end of it, but then met up with my mates and we laughed our asses off basically quoting the entire thing. That shouldn't be how it works, man! The original thing should be funny and quoting it should be lame! But noooooo.
That's my two pence.
Edit: Oh yeah. Little Britain is not a bad show - especially Little Britain USA, that injected some good new life into it - but the Lou and Andy sketch that everyone raves about is godawful.
The "... Movie" series is another one, but it sometimes has some amusing bits. I liked the random gangsta pirates section in Epic Movie.
I didn't find the new Pink Panther too bad (this is the second one, not seen the first one) but certainly not amazing.
Two And A Half Men... what the fuck, man? I've only seen in recently (my girlfriend likes it and I've seen it at her place) and it's... god. Just awful. On a related story, I watched a couple of episodes of Friends with the girlfriend recently for the first time in years. I laughed. It was actually really good. But I'm pretty damn certain they were early episodes... so I figure there was probably some crap creep that went on as the series progressed.
The League of Gentlemen RULED. It's called black humour, man (as in dark, not as in Afro-Caribbean). And it KICKS ARSE.
Napoleon Dynamite... that's an odd one. I watched it on my own and got a "Wtf" reaction. Not funny. I'd heard about it via a group of new mates (when I was in a show) who had been quoting it, and their quotes were funny. The film was not. But I got back and we talked about it and the quotes were funny. I've not seen it again since but I think with a group of mates it might be funnier. I don't know. Suffice to say I watched the whole film through without laughing, which should be the end of it, but then met up with my mates and we laughed our asses off basically quoting the entire thing. That shouldn't be how it works, man! The original thing should be funny and quoting it should be lame! But noooooo.
That's my two pence.
Edit: Oh yeah. Little Britain is not a bad show - especially Little Britain USA, that injected some good new life into it - but the Lou and Andy sketch that everyone raves about is godawful.
You are wrong. Alan Moore and his baby eating beard indeed wrote some awesome comic books, but we are talking about the League of GENTLEMEN. A glorious black humour tour de force from the Land of Eng.ix_tab said:
