I fail to see how this is funny.

[KaiRai]

Joan Rivers, Andy Parsons (Mostly) and Jack Dee. None of their bits seem to get me, and Joan Rivers has this AWFUL habit of saying "It was just!..." after EVERY one liner she does. It became extremely irritating after a while....

 

[Casual Shinji]

Family Guy and The Nostalgia Critic.

However, that british guy who does Shamefull Sequels on TGWTG is fucking hilarious.

 

[Nanaki316]

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.

Urm... ok I think I can understand this, vaguely...
I haven't missed the point of Family Guy, it's not the only comedy that pokes fun at various races/religions etc but I just do not find it funny. I cannot understand how anyone could, hence mentioning it and the topic of the thread but don't get me wrong I don't care that other people DO enjoy it. If you can laugh at all these things then that's great, it must be great not to really care enough about anything to be offended, all I'm saying is I do get offended/upset by certain things. So it's humour is not to my taste.

 

[DrEmo]

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.

That's why we have threads like these where we share our views.
Like I said before: There's a time for bashing things, too.

 

[Eggsnham]

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.

That's why we have threads like these where we share our views.
Like I said before: There's a time for bashing things, too.

I'm simply sharing my views. I see no harm done.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

I think some of the people who have so far commented on this thread are pretty stuck up there ass. Sure if you don't like a certain kind of humor (like the random humor in Family Guy) then that's fine, people crack up by different things. But the moment someone says "person A is stupid and suffers from inferior intelligence because he likes show X or "this" kind of humor" then that same person is just declaring himself better then everybody else because he considers himself smarter then the rest for no other reason then that he doesn't share the same taste as other people.

If you don't like (insert show/type of humor) then that's fine, but don't ruin the fun for those who do by lecturing them about how dump they are for liking it and how they should stop watching it/enjoying it.

Well spoken good sir!

On topic: I personally don't care for Spongebob Squarepants. His freaking voice annoys me to no end. Also Tim and Eric. I tried to like their show but I just couldn't (I imagine some would say the same of my work) but I do respect them for creating something that's a little outside the proverbial box. Lastly, and I know it's another Adult Swim show but, Xavier: Renegade Angel. I just don't get it.

But as Hardcore said before me humor is all subjective, and to say you're better than someone because they like something you don't is retarded, or 'mentally challenged' for those of you that insist on political correctness.

 

[Sunrider]

With nine pages so far, I feel a certain "bleh" towards reading all of them to see if this has already been mentioned, but...
Ctrl+Alt+Del comics. Really. Tim Buckley, your sense of humour is just plain sad.

 

[Spekter068]

Family Guy, most of all.
90% of original content on the Escapist.
...umm my blind discord for Family Guy is not letting me think of more... oh oh oh, Angry Video Game nerd, I am the right age for that kind of nostalgia, my friends think he is funny and I have seen a few (all games I loved or know well) still... no laughs, no enjoyment.

I definitely understand not finding Family Guy funny. I can laugh at it, but not if I'm watching it by myself. Someone else has to laugh first. It also helps if it's past eleven and I've got a caffeine rush.

Skit comedy, and sitcoms. Especially sitcoms. I hate that crap.

I was gonna say Dane Cook, but that's just too easy.

Anyway, I do have another answer. Have you, as a sober person, ever been around a bunch of stoners? If you have, then that's a perfect example.

Yeah, and defiantly this. Sorry tokers, my new best friend here is right. Drunks on the other hand, god bless their antics. I can watch a drinker on a riding lawn mower all day.

I have met ONE person who is funny when he's stoned, and my high school is the biggest druggie school in New England (something like 85%), and our student body is close to two thousand. Fridays are the worst- the halls smell like they've been painted with weed. It's disgusting- I go through the day wanting to throw up, but I can't. When I get home, I have to run my clothes through the washer three times to get rid of the stink.

Drunks, on the other hand... You said it. Alcohol is probably the greatest gift to comedy of all time: it makes people walk funny, talk funny, everything funny. I have not yet been treated to the sight of an intoxicated individual on a riding lawn mower, but the image I got when I read this post reduced me to a giggling fit for nearly five minutes. Seeing wild animals drunk on fermented berries is also rather entertaining- I once watched a raccoon stumble about in my yard for the better part of an hour before it finally walked straight into a tree and passed out. Funniest thing I'd seen all year.

EDIT: Jesus Christ, how could I forget? BORAT. I do not find Anti-Semitic humor funny, even though I'm not Jewish and the person telling the jokes is. Also, the running around the hotel naked thing was mildly amusing at first, but it ran WAY too long for me to say it was funny overall.

 

[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.

Urm... ok I think I can understand this, vaguely...
I haven't missed the point of Family Guy, it's not the only comedy that pokes fun at various races/religions etc but I just do not find it funny. I cannot understand how anyone could, hence mentioning it and the topic of the thread but don't get me wrong I don't care that other people DO enjoy it. If you can laugh at all these things then that's great, it must be great not to really care enough about anything to be offended, all I'm saying is I do get offended/upset by certain things. So it's humour is not to my taste.

Quick reply, ther nt poking humour at the races and etc, but at the people who are racist towards them. brief summary of my comment

 

[trueluigi7]

The Disney Channel.

My little sister put it on and I told her "Don't watch the Disney Channel; it rots your brain."

Now normally I'd sound like an insane quasi-functional parent of some kind, but this is perfectly true. Science compels me to this conclusion.

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. =/

What they said hugely as well as some other tings people said like:
Fred
Family Guy
Cheap Sitcom Shows
Jeff Dunham
Redneck Humor
as well as other things

 

[Squarez]

Hot Fuzz.

Just kidding, can you imagine?

 

[Tucker154]

Sarah Silverman I find just plain stupid.But what realy gets me is American Dad.I just dont find it funny what so ever.

 

[TheDudeMan14]

Almost every video on Youtube.

 

[Spekter068]

Does everything on this site have to be funny?

Maybe game dogs is just interesting to watch?

I mean....it isn't, but still.

I don't think that everything on this site needs to be funny, it just seems that a lot of the non-news content seems to go that way not that there's nothing serious here, I mean there was There Will Be Brawl, which while it made me laugh the odd time seemed to take a more serious tone, and that's just to name one thing.

'There Will Be Brawl' was mildly amusing from time to time, but as a serious show, it was very well done. I was astonished to find myself riveted to it and eagerly anticipating each update, expecting not to laugh, but to be pulled along in the dark suspense. It amazes me to no end how they turned something silly into an engaging and interesting story without changing anything except the setting and the angle. I realize that I'm probably the only one who understands that last sentence, and if pressed, I'll come up with a better explanation of what I mean.

I never thought I'd see the day in which the Mario Bros and Kirby were involved with something that was not only good, but suspenseful and even thrilling

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Hot Fuzz.

Just kidding, can you imagine?

You know not what you've done boy. Joking though you may have been, you have just done the comedic equivalent of dividing by zero. Now the universe will tear itself apart and it's all your fault. I really hope you'r

 

[jboking]

Sarah Silverman.

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

Second. Her show is only good for the fat, nerdy, gay couple.

 

[Kushan101]

God damn Jeff Dunham. That really fucked me off when my friends were constantly saying "I keeeel you". It wasn't funny when he first said it, it certainly isn't now.

I tend to get kind of annoyed with these people who watch too much family guy/south park/robot chicken/scrubs. These two people at work will have these outlandish conversations and I havn't got a clue what they are talking about, when I ask apparently its all from one of the above and they have basically been quoting an entire episode of whatever it was. For everyone's sake: get a fucking life!
It isn't the programs themselves that annoy me (I actually think they are pretty funny) but some of the people who watch them.

Peter Kay - maybe its a northern thing but I just don't "get it".
Jimmy Carr: I know its part of his act to come across as a self-important nasal tosser, but I find that annoying, not funny.
How could I forget: Lee Evans. Every man and his dog likes Lee Evans. Not me, I'm a sour bastard. I can't watch him, he's too frickin hyperactive - he's practically bouncing off the walls on whatever the hell it is he's on. I just want to give him a slap and tell him to calm the fuck down. And get some anti-perspirant.

Another one I forgot: Catherine Tate! The swearing granny, oh god the swearing granny! arrrggghhhh! An old lady who says "fuck" and "bollocks" is not terribly amusing the first time, after the 50th it starts to grate a little upon my sanity.

I thought I was quite an easily humoured person but I'm starting to think of more and more "funny" things that go beyond being unfunny and really piss me off. Can you turn into a grumpy old man at the age of 24?

 

[DrEmo]

God damn Jeff Dunham. That really fucked me off when my friends were constantly saying "I keeeel you". It wasn't funny when he first said it, it certainly isn't now.

I tend to get kind of annoyed with these people who watch too much family guy/south park/robot chicken/scrubs. These two people at work will have these outlandish conversations and I havn't got a clue what they are talking about, when I ask apparently its all from one of the above and they have basically been quoting an entire episode of whatever it was. For everyone's sake: get a fucking life!
It isn't the programs themselves that annoy me (I actually think they are pretty funny) but some of the people who watch them.

Peter Kay - maybe its a northern thing but I just don't "get it".
Jimmy Carr: I know its part of his act to come across as a self-important nasal tosser, but I find that annoying, not funny.
How could I forget: Lee Evans. Every man and his dog likes Lee Evans. Not me, I'm a sour bastard. I can't watch him, he's too frickin hyperactive - he's practically bouncing off the walls on whatever the hell it is he's on. I just want to give him a slap and tell him to calm the fuck down. And get some anti-perspirant.

You know, I think that those people who quote the show the next day at work watch it while taking notes. Writing down quotes and memorizing them so they can have some way of connecting with another human being who is equally desperate for conversation.

 

[Kushan101]

You know, I think that those people who quote the show the next day at work watch it while taking notes. Writing down quotes and memorizing them so they can have some way of connecting with another human being who is equally desperate for conversation.

They really must do, its either that or watching it endlessly until they have the damn episode memorised word-for-word. I'm not sure which is worse.
I'm glad I don't suffer alone