I fail to see how this is funny.

[cainstwin]

Family Guy. Yes I know in this day and age everything can be deemed as offensive to some race, religion etc but I believe this show takes things too far.

iv been umming and aahing as to wat to add to this thread, and iv decided on this. I think you've missed the point of family guy, which is a great comedy, but it likes to poke fun at things. Its a bit like borat (which im amazed no1s listed yet, because tht was very much a marmite comedy), it cod be seen as offensive to a section of society, but rlly its actually taking the racist or etc view and showing how silly it really is. And like the FCC episode, it can show the viewer how stupidly far are protectiveness has gone. If you havent seen PTV i advise you do, even if just for the song. However i can relate to how the random mid episode bits can put people off, ther have been a few where i felt i should have got up and done sumthing else while it was on.
OT:
Napoleon dynamite (i know sed already but it needs to be sed agen)
everything on youtube excpet the conspiracy theorist who comments on the moon landing video
Faulty towers, its ment to be the best thing since god, + i c y its ment to be funny, but it just isnt.
repeat for (royal family?) where they all sit on the sofa all episode
seen 1 gd episode, thts it. the rest are very very very dull.
anyway its all opinion, wat iv sed wnt change ny1s mind, and 50 people will reply saying i cnt spell,and they will waste my time, and thier own =P
Congratulations to those still reading for your persistence
EDIT: sum1 did mention borat, but it was 8 pages in. I really thot that wod have been slagged off on page 1

 

[JokerCrowe]

Anything that has to do with, and I mean no offense here fellas, but "frat boy humor".

Seriously. Adam Sandler and his ilk? Not funny.

Superbad and other movies like that? Not funny.

I just don't get that low-brow "humor" I guess, I want something a bit more dark and/or intelligent. =/

Soul-mate! just kidding... but this is exactly what i was going to write... dark and/or intelligent ruels!

 

[Tzatziki3301]

Jeff Dunham, the Achmed the Dead Terrorist puppet guy
100,000,000 views on YouTube.

I shall list some of the things that he says that warranted immense laughs on his video (these only come from the first few minutes, for reasons that should be fairly clear):

Puppet being taken out of box
"good evening, infadel"
"what kind of terrorist are you?" "A terrifying terrorist"
"Not really scared" "Boo!... Scared now?" x 3
"Silence! I kill you!" His catchphrase, so x 1000
"But you're dead, you are all bone" "Its a fleshwound" My mum can reference Monty Python too, thank you

Funny thing is, I was going to reference this as an occasion where its the other way around.

The genius part of that sketch was the improv bit where his feet droop and he spends a minute or two re-arranging the puppet while all the time the puppet is complaining. I think Jeff Dunham is hilarious, but I know loads of people who don't get it.

For me, loads of people found Crazy Frog funny. Me, I thought it was utter garbage.

 

[Fbuh]

Fred from youtube.

I know I shouldn't be suprised about it seeing as how stupid most youtube users are, but seriously, how in the fuck is that even considered to be comedy.

I second, third, fourth, and fuck it, fifth this opinion. Hell, I'd go all the way to infinity, if that were possible. I hate that bastard.

 

[Wilbot666]

The Cleveland Show. Seriously, Family Guy used to be funny (in the first couple of seasons at least) but doing the whole thing over with a nearly identical family but this-time-they're-African-American??!! Ugh.

 

[1066]

Slapstick humour and all derivatives and relatives. I simply fail to see the humour in other peole getting hurt.

watch The Three Stooges. If you don't laugh at least a little bit during it... you just have no soul.

I have never been more confused in humor styles more than when I have people try to get me interested in anime, and show me 'hilarious' parts... I just dont get it

That's pretty common. This isn't a defense of it, but I've found that the jokes in anime require one of two things: You either need to know the characters, or you need to have some knowledge of Japanese humour. In other words, you need to care about anime before you can find it funny.

Example of the first using a different setup (and that you reminded me of with your post): In the original 80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon (And please forgive me if you've never seen it, but I figure there's a reasonable chance you might), there was once an episode centered around Shredder forcing Splinter to teach him the dreaded Cur-Li Maneuver. A forbidden, ultimate technique passed down through the generations to the Masters of the Art.


The Cur-Li maneuver, as it turned out, was Splinter doing a full-on Three Stooges bit, complete with Nyuk-nyuks, to beat the ever loving tar out of Shredder and his goons.

The bit itself, not bad.

For avid watchers of the show who knew Splinter and the reverence with which he held his art, and seeing him play that bit straight, it was hilarious.

 

[woodwalker]

That show The Big Bang Theory. Everyone I know loves it and thinks it's hilarious when it's just absolute shite. I even gave it a fair trial and sat through 2 full episodes, it just wasn't funny.

Aw, come on! I think that is a really good show! Of course, it could just be my hoping that nerdy will be the new cool...

 

[ninjajoeman]

the office =P

oh I also some how look like dwite

 

[Bowl Full]

Sarah Silverman.

I fail to see how she has ever been funny at all.

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

The Cleavland Show and Lucky Star...seriously?

But you have to remember, since we are all completely different for each other, we are going to have different preferences in terms of comedy.

 

[Lonan]

Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. He really isn't funny. If it weren't for Samantha Bee, that show would have no redeeming quality.
Also, the Colbert Report is quite lacking considering the self-made hype from it.

 

[thatstheguy]

All the things I don't find funny are not funny to anyone else. This basically means I get out this discussion with little effort (hurray for me).

 

[wickermole]

=

 

[omega 616]

Little Britain, dead ringers ... in fact any impressionist, I am sure theres more I just can't think at the moment.

Got to ask though, why make a thread that just makes people think about things they hate? Were is the love?

 

[punkrocker27]

Dane Cook is funny. Some of his fans may be retarded, but if you say people only like him because it's popular to, then you're just following the crowd.

 

[shwnbob]

Friends(the show) and knock-knock jokes.

 

[Blakeyboy90]

A lot of Monty Python sketches fall flat with me. Holy Grail and Life of Brian I find hillairious though.

 

[AWAR]

Game dogs, Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia, Jay Leno, Friends, Bad humour in general.

 

[Sewer Rat]

Super Bad, I just didn't find sex joke after sex joke to be that funny.

 

[Eggsnham]

Sometimes, it's embarrassing to see what people will try to pass off as comedy. You see others laugh, but all you can do is sit there wondering to yourself, How is this funny? How does this elicit laughter? It worries you how some people will think certain material qualifies as humorous. Frightens you, perhaps. Or it just confuses you.

<color=blue>Have you ever come across something that others find hilarious, yet you yourself find humorless? If so, which ones strike you as the most confusing?

Atop the Fourth Wall has this effect on me. I just don't see how Linkara is considered funny. Perhaps I'm not familiar enough with comics to appreciate his style, but then again, it's not as though his schtick is made up of nothing but references to comics, like he's the Dennis Miller of graphic novels. His jokes just fall flat, pure and simple.

Another example is Game Dogs. Do I even need to elaborate?

EDIT:

Let's leave Dane Cook out of this. He's too obvious an answer.

I try to look through other people's perspectives when it comes to things like humor. If you only look through your perspective; life becomes much more narrow.