What makes /lit/ laugh? Stand-up comedians, TV Shows, prosaists/prose, poets/poetry, or any other form of writing that has been consciously designed to make us laugh is accepted.

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Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:06:36 2014 No.5079458 [Reply] [Original]

What makes /lit/ laugh?

Stand-up comedians, TV Shows, prosaists/prose, poets/poetry, or any other form of writing that has been consciously designed to make us laugh is accepted.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:10:08 2014 No.5079471 Peep Show

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:11:17 2014 No.5079475 Dead Jews

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:11:29 2014 No.5079476 The edgy, smart stuff that takes glee in hurting people's feelings and calling out bullshit. Stanhope fits that bill pretty well, although he's more edgy than intellectual. and yes i used the word edgy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:14:14 2014 No.5079483 standup comedians have like one good set in them it seems

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:14:46 2014 No.5079486 >>5079458 Often /lit/. Frequently the Onion. Infrequently literature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:14:49 2014 No.5079487 File: 19 KB, 338x500, 1404177289975.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5079458 This made me laugh

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:15:34 2014 No.5079488 >>5079486 >often /lit/

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:18:01 2014 No.5079497

>>5079458
I like various forms of comedy but for some reason I have a penchant for sit coms - family style sit coms, with barely funny jokes and corny life lessons.
The Jeffersons for example is utterly hilarious. You would be surprised, you could say things on tv in the 70's/80's you would never be allowed to say now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:18:29 2014 No.5079498 Flight of the Conchords. I don't really like other comedy bands, but they just seem so genuine about what they do. It's the delivery that gets me.

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:20:44 2014 No.5079503

Hmmm of the things that make me laugh...

Books: Confederacy of Dunces is the only book that has ever made me laugh out loud. I have smiled pretty damn big at a couple of Palanuik books though

Movies: So many to choose from, but Will Ferrell always tops my list

TV: Older Family Guy, older Simpsons. Funniest show of all time is King of the Hill though. Sitcoms aren't funny except for Frasier and Friends

Stand Up: ahhh standup honestly takes itself too seriously these days, but I like Ron White, Dave Attell, and a little of Louis C.K. but not much

These things aren't what I would necessarily call smart humor, although some are. Mostly they are just the ones that make actually laugh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:21:25 2014 No.5079504 >>5079497 >watching All in The Family >Archie says nigger tok pek

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:22:41 2014 No.5079507 >>5079503 >Sitcoms aren't funny except for Frasier and Friends >Friends >Friends >except Friends

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:23:33 2014 No.5079511 File: 133 KB, 244x509, heisfuckinglolabunny.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5079458 Epic dank Facebook Shitposting groups. pic related made me laff like a howler monkey. Also real life. Old People Pornos. Black People

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:27:24 2014 No.5079524 File: 18 KB, 225x231, plautus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5079458 >/lit/ laugh? >TV Shows pleb, pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:29:53 2014 No.5079536 >>5079524 >posting on 4chan >better than watching television

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:31:41 2014 No.5079540 >>5079458 not literature related.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:34:03 2014 No.5079545 >>5079540 this guy. although it might not be "consciously designed to make us laugh" as OP requested.

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:34:46 2014 No.5079547

>TV Shows

(LEONARD enters apartment. SHELDON is on the couch, touching his two index fingers together.)

LEONARD: Hey, Sheldon.

(Uproarious laughter)

SHELDON: I'd thank you not to distract me at this moment.

(Hysterical laughter)

LEONARD: Um. Okay. But, what are you doing?

(Light chuckles)

SHELDON: If you must know, I'm trying to create an electromagnetic field using the static cling from your boxer shorts.

(Uncontrollable laughter)

LEONARD: But why my boxer shorts? Why don't you just use your own?

(Light chuckles)

SHELDON: Because the fabric softener I use is deposed in an unscientific way!

(Loud, reverberating and wall-crushing laughter lead us to the next scene.)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:37:22 2014 No.5079551 >>5079536 Not that guy, but 4chan actually is far more entertaining than, like, 90% of TV.

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:39:04 2014 No.5079554

>>5079551
This. Anyway OP: Trailer Park Boys, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Parks and Recreation, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret and Better of Ted are all great. I also love Jimmy Carr, Mitch Hedberg and especially Doug Stanhope and Patton Oswalt.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:42:03 2014 No.5079565 >>5079554 >Patton Oswalt. Shit. How can you listen to that crap? The world doesn't need 40-minute bits on Star Wars characters and TiVo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:43:00 2014 No.5079568 >>5079471 Peep Show and Arrested Development are as good as television gets.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:45:11 2014 No.5079575 Did any of you guys enjoy this? It was the most recent comedy I've seen and it wasn't half bad. I wouldn't say most of the humour is "intellectual" but it certainly made me laugh

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 21:47:11 2014 No.5079581 >>5079575 Yeah, minimalist stuff is pretty good.

<><> Mon Jun 30 21:51:25 2014 No.5079588

comedy bang bang
peep show
king of the hill
frasier
seinfeld
curb your enthusiasm
the simpsons (2-11)
arrested development
the larry sanders show
trailer park boys
party down
archer was ok first two seasons
home movies
superjail
space ghost
tim and eric
all in the family
louie
fawlty towers
it's always sunny (OK in small doses)

surprised by the fairly pleb shows some anons are picking

stand up is almost uniformly awful

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:14:05 2014 No.5079643 >>5079588 completely pleb shows besides you dear anon tim and eric wonder showzen space ghost brak show curb your enthusiasm trailer park boys

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:15:06 2014 No.5079648 >>5079643 >besides you not following...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:17:24 2014 No.5079654 >>5079648 ima sayin you have good tv taste bro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:21:14 2014 No.5079663 Seinfeld Wonder Showzen 3 South was decent Steven Wright Farside comics As far as movies, I don't really watch comedies.

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:22:56 2014 No.5079668

>>5079458
OP's pic, although the shows they've written (Louie, Curb+Seinfled) are better than the stuff they've written for stand-up. Louie for the originality it brings to TV, Curb and Seinfeld for situational giggs. Larry Sanders Show is also pretty good situational comedy.

also, pretty much this >>5079588.
arrested development for structure;
it's alway sunny, trailer park boys, reggie watts (a very small portion of his standup, the ted stuff) and some other jash people for absurdism;
the office (US) and party for feel good lazy breakfast/dinner entertainment.

ITT: there's a close relationship between the comedy you respond to and the people you like. also some of /lit/'s tastes in comedy seem pretty disproportionate with the type of literature they claim to be connecting with.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 30 22:32:07 2014 No.5079694 Some of my favorite current comedians: Limmy Itao Itsuji Tim Heidecker Brent Weinbach Brad Neely I think Million Dollar Extreme, 'Thanks, Computer', and Craig Gleason on YouTube could have futures if they'd stop acting like hipsters.

Anonymous Mon Jun 30 23:53:08 2014 No.5079886
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>what makes me laugh as of late
Nathan For You
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
excerpts from The Spectator and The Tatler
excerpts from Rookie Yearbook One
Kyle Kinane's pancake bit
Lost Girls by Alan Moore
Metamorphoses by Ovid
some poetry here on /lit

There are way too many television shows and stand-up comedians being posted.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:10:14 2014 No.5079933 Youtube Poop.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:12:48 2014 No.5079941 >>5079933 the king of the hill ones make me giggle like a schoolgirl

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:15:16 2014 No.5079946 Larry David is pretty great. >that feel when you hear the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme playing in your head whenever something terrifically awkward happens

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:17:12 2014 No.5079948 >that feel when you are mark corrigan but with less motivation

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:19:17 2014 No.5079954 >>5079886 >Metamorphoses You think rape is funny, anon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:30:56 2014 No.5079990 surreal humour and British humour. A good portion of Adult Swim's shows would make it onto my favourites list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:36:09 2014 No.5080004 >>5079990 never really understood what British humour is... I really think it's just a label British nationalists/fanboys/girls and non-British people use to define anything that is remotely tangential to irony or deadpan humour. Very wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:37:39 2014 No.5080011 >>5080004 you are such a dick

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:42:15 2014 No.5080028 >>5080004 >still thinking deadpan isn't exponentially more prominent in British TV

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:45:49 2014 No.5080037 >>5080028 you got me all figured out anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 00:47:36 2014 No.5080046 >>5080037 >muh snark

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 01:11:09 2014 No.5080094 >>5079588 pretty much these shows for the most part, although theres a few I havent seen/don't enjoy in there. Also Rick and Morty is fucking awesome

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 03:07:43 2014 No.5080393 Larry David. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-vUQE_lu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_M73MoxJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz-fOtKBU8

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 03:10:31 2014 No.5080401 >>5079458 Catch 22 and Notes from Underground are the only books that have made me laugh. Some Infinite Jest lines made me smile but I can't say I liked the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 03:37:31 2014 No.5080494 stewart lee

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 03:50:26 2014 No.5080520 >>5080094 >Jerry: “I wish that shotgun was my penis.” Beth: “If it was, you could call me Ernest Hemingway.”

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 04:47:26 2014 No.5080649 Armando Ianucci Stewart Lee Chris Morris The Trip Peep Show

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 05:07:54 2014 No.5080690 Seinfellllllld, and Monty Python.

>>	sauce(dead)pan Tue Jul 1 05:09:34 2014 No.5080694 Alice in Wonderland Edith Wharton

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 06:05:59 2014 No.5080836 >Ctrl+f >no Bill Burr Sorely disappointed

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 06:08:18 2014 No.5080841 >>5080836 sure, I'll add him to this >>5079668

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 06:50:20 2014 No.5080929

Steven Wright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ErMolRE8M
Dave Chapelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7T9gicSnR0
Rodney Dangerfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qe4QcymLM
That Mitchell and Webb Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cazkHAHiPU
Broteam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfDI1n5Zyis
This shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Db8dsStSL4
Xavier Renegade Angel

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 08:55:01 2014 No.5081116

>>5079458

Louie, the show and to a lesser extent Louies CK.

Witty prose (The Stranger, The Castle, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, some Murakami, and Candide is what comes to mind right now)

redlettermedia.com. Deadpan humor in general. Wes Anderson.

Conversations with friends that turn more and more absurd by the hour (and by the beer).

Random absurdities, my own thoughts.

Clever TV-shows like Mad Men, Deadwood and The Sopranos.

Clever, karakter-driven comedy movies like The Big Lebowski (most Coen-brothers work).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 08:56:50 2014 No.5081119 >>5081116 bruh-bruh knows wussup.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:08:41 2014 No.5081144 Brad Neely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCiBPjckTg I don't know what to call that type of comedy, but I love it, absurd humor maybe?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:11:18 2014 No.5081150 >>5079458 This fucking video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbBZ_ZMteOg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:17:55 2014 No.5081163 http://ylilauta.. org/int/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:21:34 2014 No.5081180 File: 563 KB, 569x802, cia.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] BANE?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:23:01 2014 No.5081188 >>5081180 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVkv3F3tfsY

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:24:43 2014 No.5081195 >>5081144 i love this guy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:28:30 2014 No.5081203 >>5079588 this man has it right

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:29:07 2014 No.5081206 >>5081188 FOR YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQpJHmo8nE

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:43:23 2014 No.5081236 >>5079503 >Confederacy of Dunces >Family Guy >Friends >standup honestly takes itself too seriously >Ron White >Dave Attell fucking kill yourself you fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:48:11 2014 No.5081251 Remember back when /lit/ loved Stewart Lee? This place used to be cool.

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 09:51:39 2014 No.5081258
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>>5081180
I keep laughing.

I hate it but I keep laughing.

And I just know someday I'll end up watching the movie with a friend and they will not understand why I am cracking up so hard.

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Anonymous Tue Jul 1 15:16:20 2014 No.5082076

>>5081411
out of all the writings that were designed to make you laugh, you find the epitome of blandness the funniest? Not saying MF is horrible, but defining what you respond to comedically with the safest, most standard, mass-public oriented, yet watchable sitcom is quite plebeian of you...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 15:31:47 2014 No.5082130 In the Thick of It made me laugh I'm American (it's a British comedy) not sure if that factors in

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 15:33:37 2014 No.5082134 Lately only Doug Stanhope.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 15:34:57 2014 No.5082139 >>5082134 Shit, I forgot Snuff Box. Matt Berry is the greatest.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 15:53:37 2014 No.5082199 >>5079458 I really like Mitchell and Webb.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 16:03:00 2014 No.5082223 funny things

>>	sauce(dead)pan Tue Jul 1 16:04:23 2014 No.5082228 >>5082223 this is good i agree

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 16:14:00 2014 No.5082249 >>5082223 >>5082228 >"muh humour can't be defined, funny is funny" that's why the point of this thread isn't to define funny, but share any form of writing that was consciously created to make you laugh and was successful at it

>>	sauce(dead)pan Tue Jul 1 16:14:24 2014 No.5082251 >>5082249 I already said I like Edith Wharton. What more do you want?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 16:16:13 2014 No.5082258 >>5082249 Maybe he means the movie?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 16:16:32 2014 No.5082259 >>5082251 sorry, I was unaware of your tripfaggotry, so I take it back

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 20:22:48 2014 No.5083008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 20:32:52 2014 No.5083045 Bill Burr is the only comedian who can make me laugh. Some old Dave Attell stuff, too.

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 20:44:25 2014 No.5083076
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Check it Out With Doctor Steve Brule makes me laugh like nothing else. I literally start laughing during my normal day-to-day routine when I think about some scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0igLdIH-Zc

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 20:51:47 2014 No.5083090 File: 229 KB, 500x368, 1402974404053.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5081116 >Camus, Kafka, Voltaire >redlettermedia.com >Mad Men, The Sopranos god-tier taste, anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 20:54:23 2014 No.5083101 >>5083076 ppffff it's not a comedy it's educational ya dingus

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 20:58:46 2014 No.5083110
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MY MUDDA IS A WONDERFUL LADY

WHEN HER BLACK FRIEND LAMAR COMES OVER THEY ARE ALWAYS PLAYING AND MAKING A MESS

WHEN HE LEAVES MY MUDDA ALWAYS SAYS TO ME SHE SAYS CHIPPA HELP CLEAN THIS MILK OFF OF ME LAMAR SPILLED SOME MILK AGAIN WHEN WE WAS PLAYING

SHE CAN NEVER REACH ROUND TO HER BACK TO WIPE THE MILK OFF MY MUDDA

AND I SAY MA WHY IS LAMAR ALWAYS SPILLING MILK ON YOU IS HE TRYING TO OPEN A DAIRY OR SUMTIN? TSS TSSS

FUCKIN HOME RUN, CHIPPA

TAKE US OUT, E-ROCK!

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:10:39 2014 No.5083146
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS0jTbzd8Q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHN1SQ1EvuY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVFkA59kZhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBtdvzDns0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvt7LXLZs48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjtm_Y1h2eI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhYR8mDgBss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDCNJdeM9PE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S3-UH2rUIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQqP6An48FE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy2mlZGaniE

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:15:48 2014 No.5083169 These days? .mp3s of Patrice and Colin on O&A. I can't stand most standup comedy anymore. I'd rather just listen to comedians riff and trash on each other.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:36:25 2014 No.5083216 File: 19 KB, 400x300, check-it-out-with-dr-steve-brule-boats.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5083101 thanks anoramus yer a hunk

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:38:27 2014 No.5083227 >stand-up bill burr, stewart lee, daniel kitson, demetri martin pointing out funny movies and books just seem like a waste of time because there are so many out there

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:44:07 2014 No.5083245 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpBLYhbljFI

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 21:58:42 2014 No.5083305 >>5083245 post more bro i spend nearly two hours a day traveling by bus i need to step my podcast game up

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:01:46 2014 No.5083315 >>5083305 Sorry, I'm not really a podcast fan. I just watched that one because it had Tim Heidecker in it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:17:24 2014 No.5083358 I'm sincerely disappointed with your Comedy tastes /lit/ more references to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia than Monty Phyton. What have you become??

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:18:31 2014 No.5083366 >>5083245 >Bill Cosby-Bukowski is that some sort of real life internet nickname?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:37:48 2014 No.5083430 >>5083358 If you want Monty Python hit up /g/ or /tg/, my good gentleman sir! tips fedora while smacking coconuts together

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:46:30 2014 No.5083456 >>5083358 the post ironic life has given us access to the communal, breh. it's more whitebread to post something like monty python than it is to laugh along with the bros and basic bitches to charlie day's funny antics

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:47:33 2014 No.5083461 >>5083305 >i need to step my podcast game up fuck that. 90% of podcasts suck. use that time for immersion for a new language.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 22:55:00 2014 No.5083476 I hate shock-comedy stuff, but I pretty much always laugh when I watch 30 Rock. I also enjoy Top Gear.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 23:14:59 2014 No.5083535 I'm a pretty big fan of dark humor and non-sequitur humor. I especially love Mitch Hedberg's stand up specials and George Carlin, even if a lot of his fans are edgy teens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 23:20:45 2014 No.5083560 >>5079458 A good joke

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 23:26:26 2014 No.5083581 the films of whit stillman and todd solondz ...and wet hot american summer

Anonymous Tue Jul 1 23:34:46 2014 No.5083614

TV: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, Top Gear, Blackadder, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Bottom (RIP Rik Mayall), old Simpsons and Family Guy, Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Movies: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Airplane!, Caddyshack, anything by Mel Brooks

Books: Hitchiker's Guide can be so surreal that it's funny in a cosmic way. New Rules by Bill Maher (sort of an anthology of the best segments from his show)

Standup: Stephen Wright, Doug Stanhope, Greg Giraldo, George Carlin, Patton Oswalt, Lewis Black, Bill Hicks

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 23:58:19 2014 No.5083706 >>5079694 +1 for Brent weinbach. He's hit or miss for me, but the hits are pretty strong.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 1 23:59:13 2014 No.5083707 >>5083614 am i being rusled

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 00:00:38 2014 No.5083711 >>5083614 >>5083707 my thoughts exactly

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 01:53:14 2014 No.5084017 too much tuna dr brule tim and eric peep show tim heidecker russel trussel lavender family hour

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:10:29 2014 No.5084061 >>5083169 pretty much this

>>	PacmanTheManager !quhOzR1Ess Wed Jul 2 02:14:06 2014 No.5084071 Space Ghost Coast to Coast

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:14:32 2014 No.5084073 Bo Burnham. What is pure genius.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:21:50 2014 No.5084093 >>5084073 His new special is shitty and gay

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:39:56 2014 No.5084163

>>5084073
comedy songs are occasionally amusing but never funny

>>5083614
I know this is b8 but what do people see in Stanhope? I don't find any of his work funny, just edgy dribble

Though /lit/ seems to be ignoring all posts mentioning him, I think Stewart Lee is fantastic. I can't bear to watch almost any standup after seeing him deconstruct/riff/mock (whichever word you find least pretentious) the bulk of their material

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:44:30 2014 No.5084171 >>5083614 >Top Gear

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:50:52 2014 No.5084188 >>5084163 Good thing the majority of "What" is not comedy songs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:51:54 2014 No.5084191 >>5084093 Too smart for you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:52:27 2014 No.5084194 >>5079486 the onion articles, if they're funny in any way it will only be due to the title. they can never hold a joke for long, just rewording and trying to mooch the one joke they could come up with in the body of the text

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:55:34 2014 No.5084205 >>5084191 Oh man you sure burned me

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 02:57:17 2014 No.5084207 >>5084205 I sure did. Need some ointment, bitch?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 08:58:14 2014 No.5084846 my current taste has been covered by some of the anons here, but I remember I used to eat this shit up when I was in my teens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgJ08dassXg

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 09:42:49 2014 No.5084934
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>>5079458
Pic related. One of the greatest (anti)war novels of all time, mystifyingly subversive, and funny as fuck at the same time. /lit/ should learn to love Jaroslav Hasek more.

>inb4 butthurt czech libertarians say it's detrimental to their national image

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 10:15:11 2014 No.5084999

>>5084163
>I can't bear to watch almost any standup after seeing him deconstruct/riff/mock (whichever word you find least pretentious) the bulk of their material

yeah probably the comedian who changed my taste in comedy the most.

although the 'morose politically incorrect comic cleverly trangressing social boundaries' gimmick has already exhausted itself to the point that i doubt i'd still care for it even if i had never seen lee

i also somewhat agree with you on stanhope. i think he's funny but his rants go way beyond his capacity of articulating them. when i listen to the guy i just want to place punctuation marks over his jokes

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 10:33:34 2014 No.5085038 >>5079694 >I think Million Dollar Extreme, 'Thanks, Computer', and Craig Gleason on YouTube could have futures if they'd stop acting like hipsters. In what way do they act like hipsters?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 10:37:30 2014 No.5085045 Something that hasn't been mentioned: Spaced. TV starring simon pegg and the fat guy from shawn of the dead etc. I think Limmy is pretty underrated so check him out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTfC3YpMDMw

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 11:15:24 2014 No.5085135

Frisky Dingo (I doubt I will laugh as hard at anything else)
John Mullaney
Nathan for You
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
China IL
Tim and Eric
Check it OUT
My Name is Hannibal
Lucy, Daughter of the Devil
Carl from Aqua Teen
The Life and Times of Tim
Dana Gould
Jon Benjamin has a Van
And while I don't find his type of jokes that funny, Anthony Jeselnik knows how to write a joke.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 11:17:10 2014 No.5085140 File: 19 KB, 311x342, alan eat shit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not one single reference to Alan Partridge

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 11:28:12 2014 No.5085161 >>5085045 spaced is just 2comfy too bad the second season sucked

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 12:29:17 2014 No.5085310 >>5079471 this. also, the mighty boosh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 12:37:21 2014 No.5085331 >>5079476 I wish 4chan was still "edgy" and that the word "edgy" as an insult word hadn't caught on when the redditors and antifa flocked in

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 12:39:20 2014 No.5085337 I fucking hate Comedy Bang Bang

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:09:46 2014 No.5085428 >>5085337 wow. hate. try explaining why you 'hate' comedy bang bang. I think your answer will render some interesting things about culture and yourself, anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:15:26 2014 No.5085444 File: 9 KB, 236x319, 66f3a719abe4f0b0b6b13971a5206aed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5079476 >smart >Stanhope

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:19:02 2014 No.5085451 >>5085428 No

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:21:25 2014 No.5085461 Self published books

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:22:18 2014 No.5085464

>>5079568
I never really got all the love that arrested development got. I do like it but I just don't see it being as perfect as some people make it out to be. Only a few of the characters are actually worth the screentime (will arnett, tambor etc.) The weaker characters' scenes (buster, lucille atc.) just weigh it down too much for me

I love the peep show though

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:31:18 2014 No.5085490

Monty Python
Marx Brothers
Buster Keaton
Charles Chaplins
George Carlin
Ricky Gervais and The Office (didn't watch the American version, though)
The old British comedies (Ladykillers etc.)
Seinfeld
Simpsons
Sex jokes among friends, specially if drunk
Funny youtube videos of soccer players making silly mistakes, tv bloopers, accidents etc.
/b/-like humour
Woody Allen

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:34:15 2014 No.5085497
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I love alot of comedians so heres the ones I despise:

Louis C.K
Sarah Silverman
Woody Allen
Bill Cosby
REGGIE WATTS(fucking cocksucker)
Doug Benson
Ari Shaffir

I just blow lines of adderal and listen to Hedberg, if one stupid joke about a cake being a candleholder can make me cry then he's doing something special.

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:36:13 2014 No.5085505

Stand-up:
Stewart Lee obligatory
Dylan moran
Daniel Kitson
A bit of louis c.k every now and then

TV:
30 rock
scrubs used to
Always sunny now and again
Archer
Rick and morty
Brass eye never to be bettered
Blackadder
The thick of it just for tucker the fucker and roger allam's dulcet tones

Films:
Withnail and I
Office Space
The Big Lebowski
Bringing up baby it's just too fun

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 13:40:35 2014 No.5085517 >>5085505 Thrown in charlie brooker and alan patridge too actually

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 15:35:39 2014 No.5085826 >>5079458 I have never laughed harder than when Louie finally showed his wife in season 3. That is not true. Wizard People Dear Readers made me laugh so long and hard my face hurt the next day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u981JhkK46o

>>	Schopenhauer !g6vmysfhvg Wed Jul 2 18:41:13 2014 No.5086474 File: 14 KB, 300x358, Glorious_Schopenhauer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5079458 Hegel being the idiotic fucktard sophist he is

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 18:44:41 2014 No.5086486 >>5085497 >Sarah Silverman I will never understand the love for her so many liberals have. She's a decent comedian at times, I'll give her that, but nothing to warrant the amount of attention she's received.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 18:51:49 2014 No.5086520 >>5086474 embittered /r9k-tier virgins are often amusing too

>>	Schopenhauer !g6vmysfhvg Wed Jul 2 18:53:53 2014 No.5086525 >>5086520 Indeed they are, my dear, but hegel was a sophist and nothing is more hilariously stupid.

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 19:02:23 2014 No.5086564
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Some stuff in Twin Peaks is very funny, Lynch's delivery here is perfect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb954mGQ1GU
Ben Horn is another great character, the scene that has him and Jerry gorging themselves on sandwiches is hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:08:05 2014 No.5086834 >>5079471 Peep Show is quite bad, really, especially in the later seasons.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:10:08 2014 No.5086844 >>5079503 Is this a joke?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:10:09 2014 No.5086845 lit and fit can make me laugh at times. I find Family Guy genuinely funny, as pleb as that makes me. Jim Gaffigan's alright

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:24:23 2014 No.5086894 >>5079458 Marc Maron is who I find funny at the moment. He's got a weird Pagliacchi thing going on.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:26:02 2014 No.5086899 >>5086894 I don't find him funny at all, but his interviews are great because of how intimate they are

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:29:25 2014 No.5086911

>>5086899
Yeah, I agree his stand-up act could be completely replaced by his T.V. show and I'd be fine with that.
I was surprised the first time I saw his interview list, he's managed to get so many people on his show that one wouldn't expect. He doesn't hold back either. One of his best moments was when he gave Joe Rogan shit for using human growth hormones.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:43:26 2014 No.5086979 >>5083146 Moms one was funny, don't have time to try the others

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:45:37 2014 No.5086984 Stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSrzpFDvXKg

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:51:33 2014 No.5087007 >>5086894 I really fucking hate the 15 minutes of inane rambling at the start of every podcast.

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:54:49 2014 No.5087024

>>5087007
I always fast forward through that, unless he decides to talk about the guest instead of how he misses getting fucked up and hates his family/ex-wives.
My favorite part of every podcast is when he gets hyped up when his guest implies that they smoke weed or do hallucinogens.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 20:56:52 2014 No.5087032 1) Brass Eye 2) The Thick of it 3) It's Always Sunny 4) Only Fools 5) Peep show These are my top 5 tv shows in order.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 21:04:37 2014 No.5087080 A while ago I farted and it scared my mother, that still makes me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 21:10:39 2014 No.5087116 Nathan For You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUY_i5Tco68

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 21:25:26 2014 No.5087194 Louie Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law Daily Show Colbert Report Bill Mahr very few SNL Skits Bo Burnham Seinfeld Boy Meets World Drunk History All I can think of that genuinely makes me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 21:30:39 2014 No.5087218 >>5084073 >Bo Burnham. What is pure genius. Ugh. Fucking kill yourself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:16:27 2014 No.5087336 >>5087218 100% chance you have not even seen it. Just a fedora core cunt who assumes it sucks because he is popular.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:17:01 2014 No.5087339 >>5087194 Did you get that thing I sent you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:18:01 2014 No.5087343 >>5087336 I followed Bo when he was still on MySpace trying to make bucks, the dude is funny, but he's not comedic genius

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:22:55 2014 No.5087357 >>5087343 His specials "Words words words" and "what" are absolutely genius. Best since Carlin

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:38:49 2014 No.5087413 Young Carlin. Period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVGpvzcHko

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:44:29 2014 No.5087438 >>5087413 I get how you could appreciate this, but I don't get how you could honestly find this material genuinely funny in 2014 without being a massive fucking dork. Same as people finding Bill Hicks genuinely funny in 2014. Fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:47:52 2014 No.5087447 >>5087413 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hCQLEIWadk

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:49:53 2014 No.5087454 >>5087413 >>5087447 Best one imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo9pU1q8sy8

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:50:38 2014 No.5087456 >>5087336 >>5087343 Not that guy, but he just tries so hard to be funny. It's disturbing to watch him bend over backward for a chuckle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:54:22 2014 No.5087467 >>5087456 He doesn't have to try >>5087454 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxc20saM8DA

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:56:20 2014 No.5087473 Dr. Katz, Morel Orel, Bill Bryson, old Simpsons. I don't know loads of other stuff I just can't think of right now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 22:57:01 2014 No.5087476 >>5087467 >He doesn't have to try Yet still does? That's weird.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:00:30 2014 No.5087483 >>5087413 this is so aggressively lame

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:00:58 2014 No.5087484 >>5087476 Nah, it's natural. Maybe actually watch his stuff. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE6lHJXcnV8

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:01:59 2014 No.5087487 >>5087483 Well, yeah. A fedora ninja such as yourself won't like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:02:50 2014 No.5087489 >>5087484 This is horrible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:04:08 2014 No.5087492 People are so close minded nowadays. No matter how great something is they will not budge from their pre conceived notions due to their massive insecurity.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:04:28 2014 No.5087494 >>5087484 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:05:09 2014 No.5087496 >>5087489 You're not smart enough, don't hold it against yourself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:06:26 2014 No.5087502 Guess he's just too smart for most. Go back to your Kevin Hart's and George Lopez

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:06:53 2014 No.5087503 >>5087496 It's funny, because you're the one who isn't smart enough to see the artifice of it all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:07:36 2014 No.5087505 >>5087496 do you really think that this is sophisticated and smart humor or something

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:07:43 2014 No.5087506 >>5087336 >Bo Burnham fans getting emotional Board is 18+ you little fuccboi.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:08:01 2014 No.5087507 >>5087502 He is funny, but what you have to understand is that this is /lit/ He is young and far more successful than the neckbeards who dwell here. Of course they are going to hate him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:08:36 2014 No.5087509 I genuinely think Jane Austen is one of the funniest novelists I've come across. Also Chuck Klosterman, although I completely understand why a lot of people hate him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:09:11 2014 No.5087510 >>5087506 >18+ >Fuccboi

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:09:24 2014 No.5087512 I like America's Funniest Home Videos Wonder Showzen/ Horse Apples Eric Andre The Hound from GoT some Thomas Pynchon characters and Derek on netflix

Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:11:26 2014 No.5087513

>>5087507

>He is young and far more successful than the neckbeards who dwell here. Of course they are going to hate him.

This is the teenage girl equivalent of defending your favorite popstar from all "tha h8rz" by saying they're all jealous of how rich and famous they are.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:13:02 2014 No.5087519 >>5087510 it's cool that you took the time to highlight the sections that hurt you most but you need to try and forget about the pain

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:13:20 2014 No.5087521 >>5087513 Except based on the people /lit/ hates it is 100% true in this case. Anyone with any amount of popularity is a shithead in these parts. This place is filled with miserable, cynical people whose only friends are books

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:13:23 2014 No.5087522 >>5087513 Leave it be. Time won't remember this kid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:14:51 2014 No.5087525 >>5087519 >Calls someone fuckboy spelled out as fuccboi >expects to ever be taken seriously again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:15:47 2014 No.5087527 >>5087484 that was even worse than I was expecting

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:16:24 2014 No.5087529 >>5087521 If you feel this way, why are you here exactly? for tha lulz?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:16:25 2014 No.5087530 File: 71 KB, 445x657, 1398383346235.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5087521 >all this frustrated confirmation bias Tell me more about these "miserable, cynical people" you clearly differ from so much.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:17:19 2014 No.5087533 >>5087529 >>5087530 A cord has been struck

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:18:40 2014 No.5087539 Oh, you sold 5 million copies of your book? You must be a piece of shit. lol, look at that prose....hurrrrrrdurrrrrrr Fucking hipsters everywhere

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:21:07 2014 No.5087547 >>5087116 Best comedy on TV

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:21:44 2014 No.5087550 >>5087533 No, not really. I was just curious about his resentment towards the place where he is posting, that's all. Is it so hard to elaborate on the feelings behind one's statements?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:22:43 2014 No.5087552 >>5087533 >just some kid who misappropriates even the most basic of idioms Sometimes I forget how young most posters are here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:23:52 2014 No.5087557 >>5087552 You don't sound smart. Keep trying, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:25:24 2014 No.5087561 >>5087557 >nerve hit made it 2 da top

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 2 23:29:07 2014 No.5087570 >>5087413 It's like some sort of hyper super-self-aware po-mo meltdown.

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:03:39 2014 No.5087702

>>5087521
>>5087507

next time you say you hate someone I'll screencap this post and show it to you. Oh wait, you don't hate any comedians? you love every comedian unconditionally? what a saint.

someone who uses ad populum shouldn't be posting on /lit/, just an FYI

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:05:13 2014 No.5087710 Bruce Carlin Hicks Stanhope ---------- Everything else

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:09:50 2014 No.5087726 >>5087702 >someone who uses ad populum shouldn't be posting on /lit/ He didn't use ad populum

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:11:41 2014 No.5087737 >>5087702 Maybe if /lit/ didn't hate EVERY popular author you would not see ad populum arguments.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:12:31 2014 No.5087740 File: 89 KB, 360x270, nathan for you.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] do you guys watch this show it's funny as fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:12:45 2014 No.5087741 >>5087737 This is /lit/ where Tolkien is "pleb shit"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:14:19 2014 No.5087747 >>5087740 Yes, it's incredible. Has been posted a couple times. see >>5087116 >>5087547

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:15:16 2014 No.5087752 >>5087710 >carlin >hicks how do people watch that shit and not realize how dated it is? It's worse than buying the fran lebowitz reader.

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:15:50 2014 No.5087754

>>5087726

why don't you reread his post? it's heavily implied if not explicitly stated.

>>5087737

>dickens, dostoevsky, mevlville, salinger, PKD, kafka, DFW, nabokov

/lit/ only likes popular authors actually. are you trying to say contemporary authors? because that's a pretty important distinction to make

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:29:22 2014 No.5087793 >>5087754 I would argue that /lit/ likes Salinger. Contemporary may be a better way to put it. If they are popular, but not yet dead, /lits/ stance is fuck 'em

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 00:38:27 2014 No.5087812 >>5087752 What the hell is wrong with that you mean?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 01:08:34 2014 No.5087907 >>5079458 TV (in order of hysterics): >Father Ted >Black Books >Mr Bean >Fawlty Towers >Frasier These have made me laugh at different stages in my life for different reasons. Laughter and love are two good reasons as to why you shouldn't just give up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 01:10:59 2014 No.5087915 >>5079547 >one, specific TV show

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 01:12:01 2014 No.5087919 >>5087907 Blackadder?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 01:24:40 2014 No.5087970 >>5085490 This is a good example of someone with a bad taste in comedy who thinks he has a sophisticated taste in comedy

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 01:59:16 2014 No.5088064

>>5079458
>Shows:
arrested development, Nathan for you, Chappelle show, Seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, east bound and down
>Comedians:
Chappelle, Louis ck, ron white, Chris rock, john mulaney
>Comedy movies
Super troopers, step brothers, old school, Friday, grandmas boy

It doesn't take much to make me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:04:07 2014 No.5088081 >>5086486 Cause jimmy kimmel

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:13:23 2014 No.5088115 >>5086486 She glamorizes abortion and we all know how hard abortions makes the average liberal.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:23:25 2014 No.5088151 >>5088115 Is it okay to feel...odd and I suppose empty...after paying for an abortion? Help me out /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:27:05 2014 No.5088159 >>5088151 Sure. Abortion is a terrible thing, though it is also necessary is some cases. My problem is how feminists glamorize it. They talk about it as if it is a noble act. At best it is a necessary evil. Sterilization > Abortion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:27:19 2014 No.5088160 >>5088151 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:32:11 2014 No.5088176 >>5088159 >>5088160 It's one of those things I've been told to "just get over" but it's stuck in my mind. I know what I did was necessary, but the thought of it still makes me not feel right. Thanks guys.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:36:25 2014 No.5088199 Dane Cook

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:38:08 2014 No.5088207
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>>5088159
This. I'm pretty far on the 'liberal' side of the scale but I can't fucking stand abortion, hate feminism, and think Sarah Silverman is an insufferable bitch.

Unfortunately necessary at times, for various reasons.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:38:13 2014 No.5088208 >>5088176 You will probably get over it but yeah it's pretty awful

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:42:31 2014 No.5088219

>>5088208
Well, it's been over two years now. My memory of being in the procedure room with my ex is dim and fragmented. It used to make me depressed, but now it just makes me feel odd.

I watched the movie Enter the Void a couple weeks ago which has an abortion scene in it (like they show the procedure and the aborted fetus close-up) and I started to gag. Which sounds stupid, I know, but the scene just brought a lot of unpleasantness to my mind.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:48:40 2014 No.5088244 >>5088219 That whole movie is unpleasant. Can't stop thinking about it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:51:59 2014 No.5088253 >>5088244 You and me both, I had no idea what I was in for beforehand. My friend who recommended it's only word was "It's weird, man. You should watch it."

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:52:31 2014 No.5088257 >>5088219 My fiancéehad an abortion 8 years ago (before we met) and she still has problems with it. It's really hard to talk to her about it. I am "pro" abortions, but they do take a large toll on your psyche.

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 02:56:09 2014 No.5088269

>>5088257
My ex wasn't the same after it, and it definitely was a factor in our break up. We don't talk anymore, but I am curious to know if she still thinks about it, or if it still affects her.
Sounds like you're understanding of her situation though, so good on you anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 05:31:19 2014 No.5088765 way to pick the two worst comedians ever to start us off

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 05:37:36 2014 No.5088776 >>5088244 I tried watching it whilst high. Had a panic attack when he got shot and spent the rest of the day in bed trying to clean my mind with whatever shit I could find on my phone.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 05:40:31 2014 No.5088780 >>5088257 feeling bad about it for a while is normal, but 8 years is a bit much, time to move on at that point. We as a society need to force more mental fortitude on women.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 05:41:52 2014 No.5088785 >>5079511 hey kid. I think you should leave and come back 5 years later. then you'll be old enough to post with the big boys, you little shit

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 05:59:08 2014 No.5088805

>TV
Flight of the Conchords, It's Always Sunny, Curb Your Enthusiasm, early Peep Show, Fresh Meat, Malcolm in the Middle, Seinfeld, Green Wing, some of Community, Parks & Rec, The Office (British, when it originally aired), Nathan Barley, some of The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marengi.

>Lit
Three Men in a Boat, Catch 22, Dostoevsky in places. This is a difficult category. There's humour in almost all literature, but there are very few books to which it is central.

>>5081411
>>5082076
I've been watching Modern Family recently and I have to say, that although it is very accessible, and the humour isn't particularly broad, it's still pretty entertaining. Contrarily I think that to assume that because something is accessible it is plebeian is, in itself, a 'plebeian' outlook.

>>5085045
Simon Pegg is an insufferable cunt.

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 07:06:20 2014 No.5088901

>>5088805
>I've been watching Modern Family recently and I have to say, that although it is very accessible, and the humour isn't particularly broad, it's still pretty entertaining. Contrarily I think that to assume that because something is accessible it is plebeian is, in itself, a 'plebeian' outlook.

I agree. Not liking a cultural product just because you don't like a segment of the people who like it is something /lit/ does all the time. Whether it's things that are known to be appreciated by hipsters, sjw or whatever. While I do agree that Modern Family is entertaining and well written for a sitcom that targets a mass-audience, I feel that it blends in with the other stuff that's out there and doesn't really stick out too much. Each character has noticeable pun patterns, plots have stencilled which leads to a stencilled structural comedy and while I would probably say MF is better than other sitcoms aimed at mass-audiences I would still have trouble to see how a person with a more sophisticated intellect, who's been exposed to many forms of literature and would use it as familiar with plot and aesthetic devices, would use it as their go-to definition for the comedy they respond to. So I meant 'accessible' in the way that I can't understand how a person who has 'access' to more innovative and heavier cultural products would place MF at the top of their list.

It's also a case of 'why are your tastes so different than mine/why don't you like the things I like most?' which I think is a valid question that deserves answers.

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 07:10:54 2014 No.5088910

same fag >>5088901. my cursor jumped all over the place and I'm working with a small screen so disregard my former post.

I agree. Not liking a cultural product just because you don't like a segment of the people who like it is something /lit/ does all the time. Whether it's things that are known to be appreciated by hipsters, sjw or whatever. While I do agree that Modern Family is entertaining and well written for a sitcom that targets a mass-audience, I feel that it blends in with the other stuff that's out there and doesn't really stick out too much. Each character has noticeable pun patterns, plots have stencilled rhythms which leads to a stencilled structural comedy and while I would probably say MF is better than other sitcoms aimed at mass-audiences I would still have trouble to see how a person with a more sophisticated intellect, who's been exposed to many forms of literature and is familiar with plot and aesthetic devices, would use MF as their go-to definition for the comedy they respond to. So I meant 'accessible' in the way that I can't understand how a person who has 'access' to more innovative and heavier cultural products would place MF at the top of their list.

It's also a case of 'why are your tastes so different than mine/why don't you like the things I like most?' which I think is a valid question that deserves answers.

>>	le trole faec ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk Thu Jul 3 07:16:03 2014 No.5088920 >>5088257 I had an abortion with an old girlfriend like three years ago and I still have nightmares about it from time to time

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 07:50:02 2014 No.5088976 >>5088920 holy shit you people are middle class af

>>	le trole faec ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk Thu Jul 3 08:03:07 2014 No.5088997 >>5088976 Yeah

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 08:04:31 2014 No.5089000 >>5088976 pleb*

>>	le trole faec ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk Thu Jul 3 08:55:27 2014 No.5089131 >>5088219 Dude what, I'm watching Enter the Void because you made it sound interesting. I'm one hour in and I hate it so far, wtf?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:00:11 2014 No.5089142 Peep show, Seinfeld2000, 4chan, Hannibal Burress, Seinfeld, Ren and Stimpy, Old Simpsons, et. al

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:03:10 2014 No.5089149 >>5089131 i fucking hate that movie

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:04:46 2014 No.5089154 >>5081144 Brad Neely is a funny guy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:23:42 2014 No.5089214 >>5087413 Painfully unfunny.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:25:37 2014 No.5089218 >>5087447 Comedy music is so bad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:27:31 2014 No.5089220 >>5087454 A mediocre pianist and singer makes stupid jokes that are supposed to be genius because he sings in a whiny voice and curses sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:47:32 2014 No.5089260 >>5089131 Like all of Noe's films, it's a cinematic masterpiece. If you're the type to like Hollywood blockbusters, though, you will probably hate it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:50:57 2014 No.5089266 I'm just going to shill for milliondollarextreme Go watch milliondollarextreme videos on youtube

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 09:54:17 2014 No.5089277 >>5079554 >Better Off Ted Mah nigga for life >bear stuff

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 11:21:52 2014 No.5089530 File: 1.78 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20140703_161854.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] :^)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 13:43:14 2014 No.5090116 not all are favourites, but they're all funny in different ways. also, good talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 13:44:48 2014 No.5090125 >>5079458 My own capacity for self-delusion is the funniest thing I experience.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 14:00:52 2014 No.5090200 >>5079588 pretty good taste

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 14:03:24 2014 No.5090212 >What makes /lit/ laugh? most of the dickheads who take themselves way too seriously on 4chan. like 90% of /lit/ at least.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 14:06:22 2014 No.5090224 >>5089131 It's definitely not a movie for everyone. Sorry trip, didn't mean to lead you astray.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:15:21 2014 No.5090481 >>5080520 >>5080094 I love Rick and Morty and Harmon himself but the fans make me embarrassed to say this out loud

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:17:06 2014 No.5090486 >>5090212 >>What makes /lit/ laugh? >most of the dickheads who take themselves way too seriously on 4chan. like 90% of /lit/ at least. Why did you delete that anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:20:38 2014 No.5090502 >>5080520 10/10

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:21:36 2014 No.5090505 >>5079458 Anything Karl Pilkington. Hearing him reason things out in his strange way is always entertaining.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:21:41 2014 No.5090506 >>5090481 Wait, so are you embarrassed by your own conduct, assuming your a fan of Rick and Morty and Harmon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:26:16 2014 No.5090526 >>5090506 no you fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:26:50 2014 No.5090529 >>5079458 your taste

Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:32:37 2014 No.5090563

>>5079458
Come to think of it, I don't laugh anymore, I watch comedy shows and find them funny but I don't lol at them, I never really did. Maybe has to do something with me having insecurities and being shy and stuff.
I just keep watching comedy, maybe because it makes me comfy and lets me forget about being me. Probably.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 15:32:42 2014 No.5090564 >>5090526 hee hee

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 17:44:42 2014 No.5091135 >>5090563 that sucks heavily. sorry to hear that anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 23:28:11 2014 No.5092336 >>5080649 Muh fookin nigga

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 3 23:37:48 2014 No.5092368 >>5090563 i love to laugh but my asshole friends always make fun of my laugh

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 11:30:13 2014 No.5094085 >>5079458 bamp for potentially more laugh inducing recs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 11:47:18 2014 No.5094152 >>5083169 Get Dave Attell's new special, it's bretty gud

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 11:50:33 2014 No.5094157 >>5079458 Recently, only Don Quixote could make me laugh. Is my life mournful?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 12:01:42 2014 No.5094187 >>5094157 No, you're just not absorbing much humorous material. And if you think Don Quixote is funny, you read a heavily altered version because that shit is impossible to read these days

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 12:32:37 2014 No.5094286 File: 13 KB, 185x203, 90319957.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] /fit/ feel threads

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 12:51:54 2014 No.5094339 Humour=low art

Anonymous Fri Jul 4 12:52:05 2014 No.5094340

>>5079588
>king of the hill
>frasier
>seinfeld
>curb your enthusiasm
>the simpsons (2-11)
>arrested development
>trailer park boys
>archer was ok first two seasons
>superjail
>space ghost
>tim and eric

>surprised by the fairly pleb shows some anons are picking

kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 12:52:16 2014 No.5094341 >>5094339 2/10

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 12:53:50 2014 No.5094344 >>5094339 it's in-fact the lowest of low arts even statistics, the liest of lies, know this to be a fact

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:20:10 2014 No.5094413 File: 266 KB, 640x481, 1379070218117.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5094286 Every fucking time. 80% of posters can't be serious in those feel threads.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:24:11 2014 No.5094423 >>5094339 humor isn't art...it's a meta-linguistic symbolic representation of absurdity.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:27:10 2014 No.5094431 >>5094423 you're an absurdly-meta, symbolic representation of failure

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:27:16 2014 No.5094432 >>5094340 >Doesn't like King of the Hill or Trailer Park Boys Sheltered suburbanite/autistic shut-in pls did

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:28:28 2014 No.5094436 >>5094431 there's nothing absurd or meta about my failure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:28:55 2014 No.5094437 >>5094423 hmmm. I like your definition. I don't think it's complete, but I think it touches upon the essence. don't know about the absurdity part. aaanyway, your point does not contradict the fact that humour can be regarded/is art.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:32:30 2014 No.5094452 >>5094436 meta as in you're a pathetic male

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:34:12 2014 No.5094459 >>5094423 >humor isn't art things only tourists say.png

Anonymous Fri Jul 4 13:43:33 2014 No.5094480

>>5094459
are games art? humor is a game. it is a concerted effort to derive laughter from others. but what makes a person laugh depends upon several factors. some of it is conditioned, some natural. you can achieve laughter by relying upon known absurdities or known reflexes (certain rhythms, faces, etc.). occasionally a novel phrase will do it. attempts to frame it like it is an art are hyperbolic. it's a very simple game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:23:29 2014 No.5094548 File: 10 KB, 171x176, 1372369148176.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5087519

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:29:15 2014 No.5094560 >>5094480 >simple game how do you know this? are you a comedian with a decent number of followers?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:31:10 2014 No.5094563 >>5094480 and games are art, they offer me a narrative and the ability to be immersed in a world not my own. opinions stay the same, I'll defend comedy and some games(like 5) as Art.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:33:58 2014 No.5094569 >>5094459 >humour is art things only under 23 year olds say i'm only going to say this once: make sure you are a full grown adult before you make aesthetic judgments. i don't care how smrat you believe yourself to be you're a fuckin pipsqueak

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:36:50 2014 No.5094584 >>5094569 I'll be 24 in a month and so I pass your criteria for making aesthetic judgements. comedy is art.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:42:03 2014 No.5094605 >>5094569 >>5094584 >I'll be 24 in a month BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:46:44 2014 No.5094623 >>5094569 so are you gonna substantiate those claims or let >>5094584 blow you the fuck out?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:48:07 2014 No.5094629 >ctrl+f Norm >0 results Jesus christ /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 14:58:36 2014 No.5094662 >>5094629 Don't worry I gotchu man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkSMSbFV_q0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCPBwuQKJx4

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 15:13:38 2014 No.5094700 >>5094569 >being 23 and mad as fuck

Anonymous Fri Jul 4 15:24:19 2014 No.5094729

>>5079498
This. The ridiculously subtle jokes kill me. It's kind of painful to watch with those who don't catch references or watch/listen closely. So many say "this isn't funny." This is one of the few shows where you can say "you just don't get it." and aren't being a dick.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 15:46:12 2014 No.5094790 >>5094452 'male' is now an indictment. /lit/ really is a dump

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 17:30:58 2014 No.5094956 Trailer Park Boys

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 19:11:42 2014 No.5095210 >>5094340 >doesn't like seinfeld or curb fuck you

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 4 19:47:34 2014 No.5095292 >>5083076 This. I laugh more at this than anything else.

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