Posted on 07/12/2007 12:02:48 PM PDT by blam
“The only exercise I get is being a pall bearer for my friends who exercise.” - George Burns
Yes, when Dane Cook is one of the top, young comedians, you know the quality of humor just isn't there anymore. And I'm not anywhere near my 60's, he just simply isn't that funny.
A Mexican, who speaks no English, comes to the USA. As is often the case, he finds that he needs new socks. So, he walks into a clothing store, and manages to convey to the clerk that he needs something, but not what.
So, the clerk starts taking down boxes and showing what’s inside to the Mexican. He shows him a shirt, some pants, a tie, a hat, but each time the Mexican shakes his head and says “No.”
Finally, the clerk brings down a box of socks and shows them to the Mexican. The Mexican starts nodding vigorously and says “¡Eso sí que es!”
The clerk angrily blurts out, “Well why didn’t you just spell it in the first place?!”
The joke's on HP.
One of the funnest bits I've ever heard is by WC Fields. XM played something by him once. I almost had a wreck I was laughing so hard. Wish they would play it again.
Most people today think common sense is just a myth, spoken about by old people who can't speak lawyer, and think that without millions of small, petty, intrusive laws the world would cease to be civilized.
I’m under 40 and have never understood the media’s fascination with jokes that have “He’s a Republican!” as the punchline (but I’ve seen/heard it a number of time, less “meat” than a modern SNL sketch).
Perhaps the jokes they told in this study just weren’t funny.
The thousandth time you’ve heard Henny Youngman’s “Call me a doctor! Call me a doctor! OK, so you’re a doctor!” joke, you just may not laugh.
Humor has changed over the decades. What we consider funny changes, too, although there are some universal themes. So what may seem funny to some will not seem funny to others, maybe even offensive.
But the essential element, what gets past a mere grin to the real belly laughs, is an element of surprise--difficult to muster when you have heard thousands of jokes.
LOL! Now that’s funny!
I was watching a comedy with my kids once with so much profanity in it, I turned it off and announced if I wanted to hear that kind of language, all I had to do was drop a brick on my foot.
My son said, "Yeah, and we would laugh at that too."
The main alternate to these persons creating and giving the tests are that they are not funny, and their beKockta jokes are not jokes.
There are very few really funny folks around any more.
No Fred Allens, Jack Benny’s, Groucho, Zero Mostels, etc.
No Henny Youngman or well, it seems the entire funny generation has given was to a generation of loud mouth/foul mouth anti female, anti government assholes who simply are not funny.
Call me a Doctor, indeed. Howzabout I call you a Schmuck. It fits closer.
From another old guy - That would have been my reply. A tip of the hat to Groucho.
One of the most painful aspects of our declining culture is the loss of drawing room comedy. The kind of movie where there is no violence, no vulgar language, no car chases, just witty repartee, gentle satire and clever plot surprises. Those writers (and the audience that appreciated them) are mostly dead and gone.
An old people’s joke: Why is a room full of married couples called empty?........Because there is no single person!
Another one: What is a frog who crosses the road, jumps into a mud puddle, then crosses back over the road called?.......A dirty double crosser!
If you are over 60, those are funny. If you are closer to 30, either you don’t get them or they are “corny”.
I love jokes. I love funny people. In the year 2000 and on. If they aren’t sexual, they just are not funny.
Shame young people don’t get a good joke.
I loved Rodney Dangerfield.
He was funny.
“One joke used during the study was: A businessman is riding the subway after a hard day at the office. A young man sits down next to him and says, ‘Call me a doctor, call me a doctor. The businessman asks, ‘Whats the matter, are you sick?.
The participants were expected to correctly identify the punchline as: The young man says, ‘I just graduated from medical school.”
This is not even a joke, it is syntactically crippled.
We could fault this writer, for if he had told us at this point that the testee was to select from multiple choices, one of these two or more responses, the we might conclude that the person answering had no sense of humor.
Had the businessman said, “This ain’t no phone booth, pal” that would have been funny.
(Come to think of it, testee is kind of funny, itself)
The older generation no longer gets jokes because they haven’t learned to open their email. Ha!
I must be getting on, because most of “The Funniest Videos” leave me cold.
The old guys have already heard it all. So, so many of the jokes you hear and see on TV are repackaged from decades ago.
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