Most of Friends was stupid and shallow. I was thinking that the funniest Friends episode I saw was the one where Monica got hired as a chef and was so disrespected by the waiters that she needed to show she was the boss. Except she didn’t really want to fire anyone, so she got the always down and out Joey to be a waiter so she could fire him when he showed her disrespect, showing the others that she really could be tough. Except that he was so delighted with how much money he was making he didn’t want to do anything that would get him fired. It was a funny episode about women in the workplace, and it was not about sex at all, which is what most of Friends was about.
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It shows Hillary in a humorous light and that she doesn’t take herself so seriously that she wouldn’t appear on an irreverent show.
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I’ll admit, his humor is hit and miss with me. I think what I found so funny about this was 1) she was willing to do this at all, and 2) she was “all in” with the weirdness of it.
I found myself laughing out loud more than once.
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Hang in there.
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But Hillary can be funny. I’m guessing off-camera she can be really funny. This is more like a Benghazi hearing.
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Maybe not. I’ve only watched maybe half of one episode and I just found every character asinine for different reasons. But mostly, it just wasn’t funny to me.
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I don’t want her to go the way of Bob Dole. He’s actually quite hilarious. He buttoned that up, thankfully for us, and was way too serious. It hurt him. Now, whether he would have won is another question, but the humor in his personality would have made him far more marketable.
My husband met him once at his office after he left public life. There was a painting on the wall of George Washington before the Continental Congress and Dole told him to look closely and see if he could find him.
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Over the years I have had much exposure to British humor (and its kissing cousin Canadian humor), which, as you say is subtle and very dry.
Which may explain why I (boomer rather than millenial) think this is funny. Also: my German husband gets it (even if I sometimes have to explain the context).
Really, at the end, probably very individual.
Most importantly: if it has as big an effect for Hillary as it did for Obama, then that’s all that counts.
ETA: for those who have missed it, similar dry humor at Texts From Hillary site
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“Has Zach ever been funny?”
Yes, definitely. But it’s not for everyone. If you can’t relate to his attitude he won’t seem funny at all. For example, for his stand-up routine he would sometimes start off by saying “Hello, my name is Zach Galifianakis. I hope I’m pronouncing that right.” I find that really humorous but I suspect you are stone-faced as you read it. What can one say?
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LOL…I love Between Two Ferns and Funny or Die stuff…made my morning. Nothing better for the soul than rampant absurdity and abject silliness.
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Agree, she has a good sense of humor. Did you see her the other night when the late night host – I think it was Fallon – put on a face mask and pulled out the hand sanitizer? She went along with those as well.
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More of this please. This is terrific.
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Everyone’s got their thing. I feel like, however, that I KNOW those characters. I can think of a fair amount of people in my life that resemble those folks. I also worked with a lot of engineers in my previous life and that could be the reason. It’s probably one of my favorite shows.
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Maybe that’s what it is. I don’t like slapstick very much, although I adore Modern Family. I don’t like when people are trying to be funny, it’s hard to explain. I like stand up where it’s just someone telling stories and it happens to be funny. But I like that awkward humor where someone like Zach is just saying randomly stupid, mildly offensive shit, and I think I like it because it so closely resembles real life. Oh, and I hate a laugh track too.
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“Had pneumonia” at the bottom of the screen is still making me chuckle.
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Could you be a little more condescending?
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In my opinion, it’s intended to give the viewer precisely that feeling. Humor is a very personal genre, so I would never criticize someone else for feeling a different way about it than me. BTF is not the same platform as, for example, stand up comedy or a sitcom, which each have their own sort of “rules”. I personally don’t think this clip is intended to be “funny” - It’s purpose is to point out the absurdity in many of the things that are out there in this election season. I don’t feel that humor has to be “funny” to be effective - it can be thought-provoking, satirical, mocking, derisive, subversive. There’s always at least a little kernel of truth to good humor, and this clip is full of truths.
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You probably would not have liked Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. I came out in the 1970s and was set in the small town of Fernwood, Ohio, It was a sort of spoof of a soap opera, there was no laugh track, and it had a very dry, almost sedated feel to it. In its own way, it was actually very funny.
For what it’s worth, I thought Seinfeld was one of the funniest sitcoms of its time.
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Man, I dunno about all the picky picky humor criticism I’m seeing. There are some of us who just plain like anything funny. I’ll giggle like an idiot at Jerry Lewis and Monty Python just as much as I do at this kind of dry, deliberately uncomfortable humor. Frankly, I’ve always sort of thought Zach’s and Will Ferrell’s ability to be so hilarious at the same time that they’re creating a situation that makes you uncomfortable is a real stroke of genius. You’re uncomfortable for a reason: confront it. It’s sort of the other side of the coin from people like Carlin and Eddie Murphy, who preferred to make that kind of social commentary with blunt, offensive, openly confrontational humor.
Edit: And then there’s Robin…a God walking among us all…oh Robin, how I miss thee…
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Watched the vid. Read the thread. I feel old.
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