playa hatin' (or, let's get a few things straight)

[rone]

Penny Arcade is not funny.
Dave Barry stopped being funny around the time Reagan left office.
Achewood is not funny.
The Onion was funny until they started repeating themselves sometime around `97.  They'll occasionally have a good zinger, but most of their stuff is telegraphed to hell and back.
Jerk City is not funny.
Sinfest is funny until you realize it's a adolescent ripoff of Bloom County with the main character being two-thirds Milo, one third (Watterson's) Calvin.
Something Positive is not funny.
David Letterman is funny only when compared to Jay Leno.
McSweeney's is not funny.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Robot Chicken is funny.
The Venture Bros. is funny.
South Park is still funny, which stuns the hell out of me whenever i think about it.
Ray Ratto is funny.
The Perry Bible Fellowship is funny. And sick.
Terry Pratchett is funny.

Oh, i forgot the unfunniest of the unfunny above: Seinfeld. Both Jerry and the show. If you live in or were born in New York, you get a temporary pardon. But really, this "it's funny because it ISN'T funny" fad has dragged on long enough.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

I found South Park lost its funny for a series or two, probably around 2001 -- the recent series have been much better. Need to find some way of watching it though, haven't seen it in the listings at a convenient time for a while.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

South Park got too repetitive for me, but the movie's a classic.
The Onion is ignorably lame, but wins eternal forgiveness for "Our Long Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Finally Over". But even if they were back to their old form, I still wouldn't read it because the ads have taken over their site. "They occasionally have a good zinger" covers Penny Arcade and, for that matter, User Friendly. Try again.
I don't get Achewood at all. It makes me think of autism.
McSweeney's is too. pbbbthp.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

I prefer Aqua Teen Hunger Force to the Venture Brothers, partly because I've met Dana "Master Shake" Snyder in person and nearly got him to pay admission to his own after-party during the Philadelphia Film Festival this year, and partly because of the line, "I put two and two together and decided you're pissin' me off!"

[frosch.livejournal.com]

I don't find the The Venture Brothers funny, possibly because Jonny Quest was one of my Saturday morning favorites as a kid, but at least it doesn't SUCK like "Tom Goes to See the Mayor". I'm starting to get tired of ATHF, too; Meatwad needs to enunciate his lines so they're at least minimally intelligible. I miss Space Ghost (which, ironically, was another of my childhood favorites) and The Brak Show.

Most of Robot Chicken is pretty good.

South Park crossed the Garry Trudeau Line into tedious social commentary three or four years ago. I probably would find Pratchett funnier if my wife hadn't spent three or four years obsessed with the Discworld MUD.

I'm leading a pretty comedy-deprived existence these days, although sometimes just living in Alabama is enough.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who likes TGTSTM (or American Dad, for that matter).

I didn't care for ATHF at all, but repeated exposure made it tolerable. But i mostly avoid it.

When did Trudeau cross the GT Line, anyway?

[frosch.livejournal.com]

When did Trudeau cross the GT Line, anyway?

There are two schools of thought on that. One is that Trudeau was never funny at all; the other is that he rapidly became tedious after he won the Pulitzer in 1975.

Doonesbury has always been so embedded in cultural baggage that it really doesn't resonate for anyone who wasn't going to prep school in the Vietnam era. (I'm a '70s teenager who went to a public high school, and it seems hopelessly anachronistic to me.)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Odd. I was born a week after Nixon was reëlected, so i missed out on Doonesbury until i went to college. Maybe i was just at the right age to buy into his skewering of Bush, but i've become quite a fan of Trudeau's work. In a way, he's helped me acquaint myself with recent political history (which i lacked, as i grew up overseas).

Anyone who thinks Trudeau was never funny has problems, as far as i'm concerned.

[agentelrond.livejournal.com]

What do you think of Drawn Together, as it's mostly funny (if at all) in that "Oh no you didn't" sense.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The delivery wasn't too bad, even despite the obvious and telegraphed humor, but the concept was utterly idiotic. And any show that involves Adam Carolla is an automatic failure.

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Robot Chicken is funny.

I've given RC several chances. After finding nothing funny in two episodes, the third ep I watched had about five funny minutes in it, with a ripoff of "Enter the Dragon" and "The Karate Kid". Then it just got numbingly boring again. The stop-motion animation is so jerky it's almost hard to watch and definitely hard to follow. Do I lack the chromosomes needed to find it funny?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It is... possible.