Popular comedies you just don't get.
I don't understand what's so funny about any of the "Ghostbuster" movies.
marble falls
(57,112 posts)Doc Sportello
(7,522 posts)One of the five best tv shows ever.
underpants
(182,832 posts)The dickless joke. I never understood what was so great about it.
Auggie
(31,174 posts)They play characters of the type that annoy me at a molecular level.
marble falls
(57,112 posts)... to me they're a lot like Victoria Jackson. Stupid is not necessarily funny.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,203 posts)But it isn't his traditional broad comedy. It's more of a dramedy. I liked it a lot.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Beatlelvr
(619 posts)But any Monty Python.
Blazing Saddles
Any Adam Sandler
Meet the Fockers
Puleeeeese
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)The only truly amusing scene in the first one was Eric Idle trapped in a tower with a bunch of lecherous nuns-to-be.
What's supposed to be funny about a torso gushing blood and claiming he's about to win the battle? Gross.
I adored the TV shows. Some of the skits fell flat, but some were brilliant and funny.
Diamond_Dog
(32,010 posts)marble falls
(57,112 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,849 posts)nuxvomica
(12,431 posts)Carl's (S.Z. Sakall) friends are excited to be on there way to the U.S. and have resolved to speak only English:
Mr. Leuchtag: Liebchen - sweetness heart, what watch is it?
Mrs. Leuchtag: Ten watch.
Mr. Leuchtag: Such watch!
Carl: Hm. You will get along beautiful in America, mm-hmm.
Of course it helps to know that "uhr" is colloquial German for both the time of day and the wristwatch.
nuxvomica
(12,431 posts)Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis are the ones to watch.
Exactly
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)marble falls
(57,112 posts)bif
(22,721 posts)I also don't get Eugene Levy. The most unfunny funny guy ever. Or wait, that would be Bob Hope.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Just stupid mugging. Cringe=worthy, not funny.
bif
(22,721 posts)But didn't hold up well...
"The In-Laws" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)hunter
(38,318 posts)Every time I tried to watch those I felt like...
... I don't get it.
I thought the original Ghostbusters was funny.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are funny in The Other Guys.
I don't like "Elf."
I like Monty Python.