The Strange Death of Comedy (Israel, job, news, President)
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Yeah, I posted a bunch of straw memes somewhere, and got one person lecturing me about the danger and ecological damage they do. I get that, really I do, but can you just laugh at the damned meme while you stop using straws? Is it really that hard to find the humor here?
Old people seem to have a thing for Blazing Saddles. I saw it for the first time recently and I thought it was really lame and boring, it was something that I would expect my grandpa to watch while everyone else just rolls their eyes.
I thought it was like watching 1.5 hours of fart jokes, it was like a real life version of the fake movie from Idiocracy that just showed butts for a couple of hours. If you have the mentality of a 10 year old boy, you might like it.
"Old people seem", " it was something that I would expect my grandpa to watch"
So you base you "opinions" on 1 possible indecent.
I NEVER liked Blazing Saddles. And I am probably as old as your grandpa.
In "our" day, we had REAL comedy from the likes of Red Skeleton, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Tim Conway, etc. The list is VERY long of TRUE comedians.
I find everything Letterman says funny because his voice is so unique and he's able to make a simple sentence sound hilarious just by altering his tone or changing his facial expression.
He's the #1 comedic genius in the world.
Everybody else is below him.
And he is anti-Trump, and is still able to appeal to me, because he doesn't sound hateful about it.
Actually Trump's sense of humor is also brilliant.
I don't disagree that he was simply mailing it in for a good while but he was at one time really good at what I noted.
In fact when Letterman was "mailing it in" he was hilarious, because its funny to see someone speaking in such a careless and lazy voice.
Letterman's last 10 years were the best years I've ever seen.
Its the opposite of the manic Colbert, a disgusting and unfunny "goon" as Letterman would say.
The problem we have is that comedians who used to be funny, including doing political humor, have gone over the edge so to speak and are now doing rants rather than being funny. Colbert is a great example. He used to be hilarious doing his political comedy and could give it to both sides with great wit and perfect delivery. Now he is just an angry bitter man. He has no humor in him anymore. The wit is gone. There is no comedic delivery. The same can be said for most of the others.
In addition to being hateful, Colbert has shown that he has no idea how to do Trump's voice.
Its incredible how WAY OFF Colbert is with the imitation.
Its like he's trying not to do Trump's voice, and has just made some other character with no connection to Trump's voice.
I still think that comedy CAN exist without offending anyone. I think Bob Newhart was a master at it, although I am sure that there are people who could find fault with some of his monologues. Here is my favorite:
I didn't get that he was saying you had to find it funny, I understood him to be saying that you don't need to find offense in every little thing that someone says - that people are too uptight now and never understand when something is satire anymore.
On the one hand, I get that, because we do have people who say things that you might think is satire but is how they really feel, so it's hard to distinguish the difference anymore.
On the other hand, if everyone would get the hell over themselves, we might get back to the day when we could all laugh at the absurdity that is the human being and what humans do and say.
I understand your point, and agree with much of it. The thing is, the guy in the video seems to me to be viewing the past through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia. He's yearning for some kind of golden age when everyone appreciated the same comedians, and I am not sure that age has ever existed. There have always been people who liked - and disliked - certain kinds of humor.
People have a different idea of what comedy is and while Seinfeld was never my favorite I think having one of the biggest comedy sitcoms ever probably trumps what I think.
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I'm a big fan of the Seinfeld show, but that was all Larry David. If you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm you will see that David is still funny, and not exactly PC.
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