Unfunny Comedies?

Yeah, I looked at his review - Ebert gave it 3.5 stars!

Well, Ebert can be wrong!

 

I don't think you have any way of knowing how unfunny a comedy can get until you've seen some Finnish ones. The dourest of tragedies is guaranteed to elicit more laughs than an average Finnish comedy. Most of those you mention are probably veritable barrels of laughs compared to ours.

 

Yeah, that's at least half a star more generous that I would be. This is the same man that gave Raising Arizona one star.

 

Yeah, 3.5 stars is a good 3 stars more than the movie deserves!

Is "Kingpin" the worst Farrelly movie? No - but without Bill Murray, it might be!

 

Whaaaaa..Kingpin is hilarious!

 

One aspect of the original made it work for me is the "Man Out Of His Own Time." Something that I found offputting about the sequels is that Austin is still adjusting to modern times despite having been around for a while by the time of the next two movies.

 

Big Bang Theory

I have tried to watch this show, but I never laugh. As "witty" as the dialogue tries to be, no one - least of all the kids I know at CalTech- talks like that.

 

My Mother the Car. That show never should have gotten past its pilot episode. But it did.

 

An unfunny comedy? You mean a tragedy?

 

Reading the synopsis, I'm dumbfounded as well.

 

In Shakespeare terms, comedy/tragedy doesn't mean what they mean to us. In a Shakespearean comedy, the main character wins. In a Shakespearean tragedy, the main character loses (see King Lear).

 

I saw part of the first episode of My Mother The Car on YouTube and caught a few episodes in reruns and I didn't think the show was a disaster. It had some humor, but how it would turn out would depend on the creative team. Considering its contemporary shows that featured an "unusual" character (including witches, genies, robots, and martians), a car containing the ghost might not seem as strange as it seems.

 

I didn't read all of these posts. Did anybody mention Due Date?
I wanted Robert Downey Jr. to throw Zach Galifianakis into the Grand Canyon by that point in the movie.

 

I saw "Harper Valley PTA" with Barbara Eden at the drive-in when I was a kid and man did it suck. I might appreciate the camp value of it now

 

The Animal with Rob Schneider. Only watched it to see Colleen Haskell because I had a huge crush on her. Shouldn't have bothered. It's the worst!

 

I don't think Dazed and Confused is actually a comedy. It is more like a "slice of life" film.

 

I was forced by my family to watch The Ridiculous 6 last Thanksgiving. What a horrible movie. I don't think I laughed once.

 

Worst TV show - Big Bang Theory or Friends
Worst Movie - Almost any Adam Sandler Movie

 

Deal of the Century

Too Bad..I love Friedkin and Chevy.

 

Movie 43

Check out the cast of stars in this movie. How did any of them get talked into this?

 

I'm not sure who writes comedy, at one time it was one or two people with one thought, you could see them enjoying each other bouncing each others thoughts'
Now I see a group of writers with no depth or feeling as though doing a new advert, yes that will fit nicely in there, lets present that to the executives, if they like it we can try for another rise.
After all I did a course on this so what do they know.

 

Yup. I never liked two and half men either.

 

That 70's show, at first it was kind of interesting, ep 1-2, then it became stupid and silly, I digged the blonde chic and that's about it. Malcom in the middle, not to my liking, who is the boss, Family ties, I can't seem to find interest in these shows.

 

Big bang theory is a specific audience series, if you aren't in their click, they it wont make any sense.

 

Saturday night live, after 1980, I digged the original cast, but the new folks are not funny at all, too much politics, and college humor. I went to college back in the day, and I found nothing funny then. All late night shows, not funny, never was. Johnny Carson came close. But these guys are over compensated for non-entertainment. Sorry Charlie.