I fail to see how this is funny.

[DividedUnity]

Stephen Colbert. God damn he is so unfunny its scary, id rather sodomise a pine tree through a gap in an electric fence than listen to his so called comedy

You, sir, clearly don't know what funny is. He's funny because of his political humor; because of his false self-absorbed persona and moments of brutal satire. If he isn't funny at least most of the time, then nothing is.

Oh man. I always say to each his own but god damn he is not funny. I have been forced to watch the colbert report 4 times and havent laughed once. When I saw he was doing a bit on stage at the academy awards I cringed.

How people find him any funnier than a brick wall is beyond me.

 

[oppp7]

Angry Video Game Nerd. All he does is yell angrily at games no one has heard of.

 

[Lowbreed]

I tend to ignore / suppress memories of things I don't find funny, I can only think of some German comedians, but they're to obscure / well not English or American so no one would have heard of em.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

Stephen Colbert. God damn he is so unfunny its scary, id rather sodomise a pine tree through a gap in an electric fence than listen to his so called comedy

You, sir, clearly don't know what funny is. He's funny because of his political humor; because of his false self-absorbed persona and moments of brutal satire. If he isn't funny at least most of the time, then nothing is.

Oh man. I always say to each his own but god damn he is not funny. I have been forced to watch the colbert report 4 times and havent laughed once. When I saw he was doing a bit on stage at the academy awards I cringed.

How people find him any funnier than a brick wall is beyond me.

*Sigh* To each his own, indeed. Well, you make me sad.
But as for me and my household, we will serve the Colbert Nation (Bible reference ftw!).

 

[Jfswift]

If you don't like the character(s), you're not going to like the show. I think alot of humor has to do with how much we can relate to the people telling the jokes.

 

[ethaninja]

People react differently to different things. I for one think that South Park isn't that funny (although I have gotten a few chuckles out of it), but I think Black Comedy is pretty sweet. Others think not. Guess it's one of the things that make us "unique".

 

[Siuki]

A teacher doing something irregular like swearing. I can't believe how much my class cracked up when my teacher said one of the reformers(I can't remember which one) was a son of a bishop. I got what they were thinking, but the were just being immature brats.

 

[XoXoButterflyXoXo]

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

Also... "random humour". I quite liked Weeblstuff and similar when I was younger, but having seen most of that I get pretty jaded by any humour which is based on randomness. Family Guy (and offshoots), a lot of internet cartoons and sometimes The Mighty Boosh (although, I think that they can be genuinely witty sometimes). Its such easy humour and, ironically, predictable.

Ya I agree on Jeff Dunham, and same thing happend to be with Weeblstuff

 

[Skops]

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.

Oh god! Never speak of that show again! It's so bad on so many levels like Joey was

 

[MrNickster]

Freddy got Fingered
All the Scary Movies
Any film involving Jason Friedburg and Aaron Seltzer
The Jetsons and the Flintstones

 

[Kaltazraza]

I tend to laugh at almost everything so I can't think of something that doesn't make me laugh right now.

 

[DominoSmith]

Small children. It's far too common to see videos on America's Funniest Home Videos that have a small child in them doing something completely stupid, and the audience is laughing their asses off.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Any type of pranks. Or, most types. I'm not talking about those big things that Zug and Improv Everywhere do, I mean stuff like drawing on someone's face while they're asleep, jumping out at someone, or telling someone something that's not true. Or people with foreign names. See, we were watching a video in history class yesterday and there were a bunch of German names and everyone was laughing hysterically whenever a German name was said. I really don't get that.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

The title sounds like someone showed Fred videos to Darth Vader. Was that funny?

On topic: I don't find Jack Dee's show Lead Balloon all that funny but, y'know, subjective opinion and all that.

I sense Lead Balloon was a desperate attempt to remake 'curb your enthusiasm' for a UK audience, when to me, it was already made for a UK audience, I'm surprised how well recieved it was in America

I really like Jack Dee, and I think it had potential, but just wasn't quite right.

My vote goes to 95% of all sitcoms ever.

They can be entertaining, but the vast majority struggle to raise a smile, and I'm grouping all 'regular sitcoms' together, home improvement, my family, last of the summer wine, friends, anything where it's just a group of friends/family and the main guy's an idiot, and one of the women is kinda ditzy, and the wife and mother is all strong and smart, and stereotype laid on stereotype.

There's more comedy in 5 minutes of something like Black Books or Father Ted, that there has been in the 18 or so series of 'My Family', yet it KEEPS getting commisionned, because its 'easy'.

Here's my main problem, the people in charge of TV would always prefer to have 20 million people vaguely distracted by a show than have 10 million people worshipping a show like a god that craps diamonds. Moderately entertained people won't even blink when you cancel a show and replace it with the same thing with a different name for a start.

If you ever want to see a highlight of what's wrong with regular sitcom, particularly the 'home improvement' ' king of queens' ' everyone loves raymond' etc production line, try to find some episodes of the south park guys' 'That's My Bush!'

That's my Bush was based in the Whitehouse, and did have George Bush as the typical idiot man of the house, but it wasn't 'about' that, so much as it was about parodying every dumb lazy cliche in the book about sitcom.

Idiot audience whooping at women and kissing? check.
Sassy mom type? check
Dumbass dad type? check
'wacky' next door neighbour that can just walk in at any time? check
horribly contrived plots? check

but it was so much more than the sum of its parts and I'm gutted it was canned.

EDIT: sorry for length (that's what he said! woooo! Ahem, I mean, I just tend to get reaaally opinionated about comedy )

 

[Popadomus Ohio]

there's a few comedians like Michael Macintyre and lee evans, who really are not comedians for the simple reason that a comedian has to be funny. they just say things they see like this:

have you ever noticed that when you walk, you have to place one foot in front of the other in order to go forward it's very laborious and repetitive.

question. how is stuff like this funny. and what gets me is when some people have compare these talentless cretins to people like Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, Charlie Brooker and George Carlin.
you know who i hate... Keith fucking Lemon, a britsh comedian who i am ashamed to say comes from the same city as i do. my brother oncve described him as, "better than that moron Charlie Brooker" and i nearly went on a rant.
so, in conclusion to my rant i wouls like to say that Michael Macintyre, Ross Noble, Lee Evans, Celebrity Juice, King of queens and katy Fucking Brand are my personal picks for " comedy that isn't comedy".

 

[Elle-Jai]

EDIT:

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

But but but Dane Cook is hilarious!!!

Ummm I don't get all the racist jokes. Or any of the turban jokes (which are technically a subset of the racist jokes). I just find them offensive and will leave the room if they start. I've done it to my best friend, and anyone else who's failed to grasp how disrespectful I find them....

 

[GreatVladmir]

After watching the first few seconds of that Game Dogs, I now know why alot of people call it crap.

I find this with alot of comedy, someone says "OMG that is the funniest show EVER!" I'm intrigued, I watch it, then spend 3 hours playing Morrowind crying because of how awful I found it and realising I'll never get that time back. Perfect example, Don't Mess With The Zohan, I got 51mins in, over half-way and was still wondering "Where is all this funbny comedy I was told about?"