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Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

Really, when was the last time you saw a comedy that was good? That didn't embrace everything in this clip? That the humor wasn't mostly based on sex and drug one liners? Here, for my amusement and yours:

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Kizzume · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

I haven't seen a comedy that was good since the early 90's. The worst comedy I had to walk out of the theater it was so bad was "Without A Paddle".

The shock value is gone in comedy now. We're no longer shocked by ANYTHING people could say to be funny. Shock value kept comedy rolling through the mid 90's and has tried to keep it through the 2000's, but it's not working anymore. And slapstick--how old does that get?

The writing has been terrible. Really the only good movies lately have been ones that are adaptations of novels, and even then, sometimes they really fuck up like they did with the Americanized version of HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--I mean, the movie was OKAY if you hadn't read the books or seen the BBC production, but if you had read or seen those, it was utter crap in contrast.

Political humor seems to be something that is out-of-bounds over the past several years--it has to be a documentary sort of thing, like MM's movies. I think the networks and the studio execs are not allowing political stuff to be in humor as much because they might get viewed as being very partisan one way or the other for allowing it. There are things people just can't say now that they used to be able to, but other things that people can say and it draws attention to crickets even though they're quite extreme.

Might the increasing apathy that has been occurring have something to do with this as well?

I'd love to see some more intelligent humor start to surface.

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

Couldn't agree more with you on the whole "no good comedies since the early 90's". We need more stuff like Curb Your Enthusiasm, and this; my current favorite funniest show. It's a documentary (sic) where two writers try to sell a show to a major network. There are ten parts. Find them all at ClarkandMichael. If you don't like it by 3 and a half minutes in, you don't like my kind of humor at all.

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