Popular comedies you just don't get.
I don't understand what's so funny about any of the "Ghostbuster" movies.
marble falls
(57,150 posts)Doc Sportello
(7,526 posts)One of the five best tv shows ever.
underpants
(182,863 posts)The dickless joke. I never understood what was so great about it.
Auggie
(31,178 posts)They play characters of the type that annoy me at a molecular level.
marble falls
(57,150 posts)... to me they're a lot like Victoria Jackson. Stupid is not necessarily funny.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 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
(46,076 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
(32,037 posts)marble falls
(57,150 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,865 posts)nuxvomica
(12,437 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
(12,437 posts)Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis are the ones to watch.
Exactly
BootinUp
(47,177 posts)marble falls
(57,150 posts)bif
(22,734 posts)I also don't get Eugene Levy. The most unfunny funny guy ever. Or wait, that would be Bob Hope.
wryter2000
(46,076 posts)Just stupid mugging. Cringe=worthy, not funny.
bif
(22,734 posts)But didn't hold up well...
"The In-Laws" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)hunter
(38,322 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.