Has humour got less funny?

[Cheesypoof]

But your example makes no sense....

You're saying not all punchlines are funny....like telling you to feel happy cos its christmas.

I don't get it.

theres a predictable expectation from both.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Still don't get it, maybe I'm thick.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Still don't get it, maybe I'm thick.

you're not.

 

[T & P]

I don't think it's got worse- or better. Some acts & programme are good, some ain't.

A fair amount of the fondly-remembered comedy and sitcoms from the past (Dad's Army, Open All Hours or To the Manor Born to name but three) are pretty mediocre and unfunny IMO.

 

[kabbes]

Your case has been disproved on this thread, Mrs. Q. No matter what else happens in this world, not matter how many successively more awful "comedy" panel shows they put on R4 (and yes, that McAuley shite really is terrible), Cheesypoof will continue to be completely hilarious.

 

[Santino]

I don't think it's got worse- or better. Some acts & programme are good, some ain't.

A fair amount of the fondly-remembered comedy and sitcoms from the past (Dad's Army, Open All Hours or To the Manor Born to name but three) are pretty mediocre and unfunny IMO.

Dad's Army is superb.

Superb? I never use that word. How odd.

Anyway, Dad's Army is excellent.

 

[kabbes]

Open All Hours definitely had its moments too. Character comedy, played by one of the greatest character comedy actors.

 

[kabbes]

And no, I didn't mean David sodding Jason.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Your case has been disproved on this thread, Mrs. Q. No matter what else happens in this world, not matter how many successively more awful "comedy" panel shows they put on R4 (and yes, that McAuley shite really is terrible), Cheesypoof will continue to be completely hilarious.

what you on about

 

[quimcunx]

Your case has been disproved on this thread, Mrs. Q. No matter what else happens in this world, not matter how many successively more awful "comedy" panel shows they put on R4 (and yes, that McAuley shite really is terrible), Cheesypoof will continue to be completely hilarious.

Although this is indubitably true, Cheesypoof is not all punchlines.

So you are right, I am right and Cheesy is right. We are all right together. We can set up our own little exclusive club, me, you and cheesy. We can meet in my dad's shed every Wednesday and have adventures.

 

[mrs quoad]

god god oh god oh god make it stop make it stop make it oh god the arrrrg

 

[Agent Sparrow]

It has got less clever and too self-conscious, and often based around being nasty while looking cool.

But saying that, there's always been a lot of really shit comedy around. For every Peter Cook there are five Bernard Mannings and a bucketload of Gary Wilmots.

I don't understand how Little Britain ever got aired.

There are just more on air hours to fill these days.

When people compare now to 'back then' they are picking the best, say ten, comedy shows over 30 years (writing the craps ones out of history) and comparing them to the best (and the rest) of the last, say 5 years. It's not a fair comparison.

I agree with quimmy. The crap shows get forgotten about, the better ones get rememered, and rerun or rewatched on video/DVD/downloaded. Therefore the quality of older comedy programmes appears better.

Funnily enough I was thinking about this a few days ago in re: to modern novels, from a different angle. Whilst I expect that more novels are published these days, I was wondering about all the old books that got forgotten about, and what contemporary books will make it as the new classics, and which ones will be forgotten. It's a bit like natural selection!

Having said that, I too wonder how on earth Little Britain got so popular

 

[gentlegreen]

Gawd, that programme almost makes me nostalgic for The Now Show.
I assumed it was a "Fringe" thing when I noticed he was Scottish ...

Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the News Quiz ...

/derail

Humour-wise generally, perhaps it's all been done now - with "Little Britain" taking us a little way "over the top" before we realised it was a bit dodgy ...

 

[Pie 1]

Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the News Quiz ...

Starts again next week, thank fucking god.

 

[mrs quoad]

I enjoyed the letter sent to Feedback, complaining about its sheer awfulness.

"Dear Roger Bolton,

I am a very tolerant human being, but this is SHIT I CANNOT BEAR IT WHAT THE FUCK WERE THE COMMISSIONERS THINKING KILL THEM DEAD KILL THEM DEAD KILL THEM DEAD."

I paraphrase slightly.

 

[TylerD]

I think it got less funny when it became the new rock 'n' roll.

 

[19sixtysix]

Fred McAuley is tedious. He is a symptom of the dumbing down of radio scotland.
Once upon a time it was like scottish radio 4, now its full of tedious drivvel from Fred McAuley and similar.

He is DULL. DULLER than a rainy scottish winter morning.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

....and then I got off the bus, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

I remember the first time I saw TMWRNJ, when it was first broadcast. I was sat up on the sofa with my parents, in my nappy- in fact I think I'd probably just soiled myself, and I was sucking my thumb, but even then, with my limited understanding of the world, I somehow understood that this show was something special...

28 years old I was!

 

[ericjarvis]

punchlines arent always funny.

So true. The essence of comedy is whatsit. Thingy. Like with a stopwatch without the watch. Or the stop. It's on the tip of my tongue. Sounds like poetry. It'll come to me in a minute.

 

[TylerD]

So true. The essence of comedy is whatsit. Thingy. Like with a stopwatch without the watch. Or the stop. It's on the tip of my tongue. Sounds like poetry. It'll come to me in a minute.

Timing?

 

[mrs quoad]

Heresy.

Smug shit hosted by a cretinous wanker.

 

[ericjarvis]

Timing?

Twenty past twelve.