Comedians You Don't Find Funny....

[TMC]

http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=display&thread=435256

Just as the title of the thread states. As we know, humor is
subjective, so your favorite stand up comic can be someone else's
least favorite comic.

Comedians that aren't funny (to you):
http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ot2011&action=display&thread=412635

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000002/flat/200689700?d=200689700&p=1#200689700

[Daryl]

Will Farrel is at the bottom of my list. I won't go see any of
his stuff at all. I won't even rent it or be given it to watch.

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[Michael OConnor]

On Jun 22, 4:18 am, Daryl <dh...@nospami70west3.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/2012 1:09 AM, TMC wrote:
>

> >http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=disp...

>
> > Just as the title of the thread states. As we know, humor is
> > subjective, so your favorite stand up comic can be someone else's
> > least favorite comic.
>
> > Comedians that aren't funny (to you):

> >http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ot2011&action=displa...
>
> >http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000002/flat/200689700?d=200689700&p=1#20...

>
> Will Farrel is at the bottom of my list.  I won't go see any of
> his stuff at all.  I won't even rent it or be given it to watch.
>

I don't find him funny, Adam Sandler either. In fact, I haven't found
any SNL comedians funny since Eddie Murphy, but other than the Klump
family segments in the Nutty Professor movie, he hasn't been very
funny since he left SNL.

[Captain Infinity]

Once Upon A Time,

Lucille Ball.

Milton Berle.

Bob Hope.

Curly Joe Derita.

Phyllis Diller.

Benny Hill.

Zeppo Marx.



**
Captain Infinity

[Daryl]

Adam Sandler can be humorous but I never found his BS routine
funny. When he quits with the goofy talk and acts he's pretty
good.

I never found Eddie Murphy funny either. His hero was Richard
Pryor who I also found not funny. The only thing that Richard
Pryor said I found funny was when Bill Cosby was commenting on
how Eddie Murphys profanity was bad for black America, he told
Eddie Murphy, "Tell Bill to have another Coke and Shut the F... Up".

[dm16...@gmail.com]

Lucille Ball
Joey Bishop
Red Buttons

[notbob]

On 2012-06-22, Captain Infinity <Infi...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:

> Zeppo Marx. <-- not a comedian



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On 6/22/2012 1:09 AM, TMC wrote:
> http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=display&thread=435256
>
> Just as the title of the thread states. As we know, humor is
> subjective, so your favorite stand up comic can be someone else's
> least favorite comic.
>
> Comedians that aren't funny (to you):
> http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ot2011&action=display&thread=412635
>
> http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000002/flat/200689700?d=200689700&p=1#200689700

Will Farrel is at the bottom of my list. I won't go see any of
his stuff at all. I won't even rent it or be given it to watch.

===================================

Yep. I don't find him all that funny either. But someone clearly does.

Humor is SO subjective. I find Marx Brothers movies to be laugh out loud
hilarious. My wife can't take five minutes of one.

<shrug>

But she also hates Will Farrell even more than I do. Actually "hate" is too
strong...but you must know what I mean.

[The Loan Arranger]

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> Lucille Ball Joey Bishop Red Buttons

The list of unfunny comedians is a long one for me.
I second the above 3 choices.

Then add Chevy Chase, whom I find intolerable
Bill Murray - has his moments but chews the scenery too much
Paulie Shore - need I say more dude?
Adam Sandler - moron
Will Farrell - repulsive
Curly Joe DeRita - worst Stooge ever
Joe Besser (as a Stooge but was funny as Stinky on the A&C Show)
Bob Hope - was OK back in the 40s but allowed his act to get stale
Laurel & Hardy - liked them when I was a boy but can't tolerate them now
Jerry Lewis - "moron" humor never appealed to me
Milton Berle - don't find humor in a man wearing a dress
Henny Youngman - take my wife - please - only goes so far
Danny Kaye - just creepy
Carrot Top - an idiot
Paul Rodriguez - a total racist who, when performing in front of predominately
minority audiences, makes bigoted jokes concerning white people.
95% of comedians performing today are either crude & vulgar & not funny or just
plain not funny.

Like they say: Dying is easy, comedy is hard

[Art Vandelay]

On Jun 22, 3:09 am, TMC <tmc1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=disp...

>
> Just as the title of the thread states. As we know, humor is
> subjective, so your favorite stand up comic can be someone else's
> least favorite comic.
>

> Comedians that aren't funny (to you):http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ot2011&action=displa...
>
> http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000002/flat/200689700?d=200689700&p=1#20...

Lucille Ball
Bob Hope
Red Skelton
Jerry Lewis
Chevy Chase
The Three Stooges

[Adam H. Kerman]

What, you liked Gummo?

[gtr]

[ Too long for you to read, move along. ]

So many of those above you don't rule out you just limit their scope;
well that's kind a the case with all artists of all mediums. They have
their highs and their lows. Laurel & Hardy, for example are comedic
demi-gods to me. They are in a category of their own.

But "good moments" with Bill Murray, and Will Ferrill for example--well
are we only supposed to addres that they weren't *always* funny. and to
compare Carrot Top, Rodriguez and Youngman, comedians, with Bill
Murray, Will Ferrill and Danny Kay, comics, isn't that apples and
coconuts?

That whole category, for me, is practically defined by the fact that I
like them without drumming my fingers on the table waiting for my big
laugh. In fact a comedian or comic that is always going for the jugular
is set up to fail, early when they can't get airborn, or late, when
they lose altitute. It's only those who have patience and take their
time (i.e are "unfunny") that set up context and countour for their
humor.

As someone who has primarily used humor with others to navigate my way
through the world (socially, professionally, theatrically) I sometimes
analyze what's going on and sometimes I don't. I'm really surprised
when I don't to a meeting where no one knows me, (e.g. a recent
physical therapy class for back-pain), and in short order I'm getting
laughs out of the crew. Usually for one liners and such; neither
planned nor previously used. I wonder how they "read" my line as humor,
since I wasn't goofy or anything. Certainly timing is critical,
brevity as well, and I would assume duality of
thinking/reversal/surprise stuff. But frequently I find there is little
of the later. They are just reading the meter of the thing. That's a
guess, it's mysterious shit.

I know that early on as a kid I got a lot of laughs from facial and
physical humor, something (I *think*) I leverage very little now.
Seeing a piece of a Danny Kaye movie the other day I remembered for the
first time since I was a kid that I was wild about him. Jerry Lewis
too. Lewis pooped out for me when I was about 15, and Danny Kaye well
before that. It's kid humor. But that's where I got going. Of course
my theatrical family critiqued jokes at the dinner table, for all the
kids, giving tips on timing, elocution, deliviery, punching certain
words. It sounds weird now, but it sure made dinner fun.

In fact as I read through your list above I realize *most* of it is
what I now think of as "kid humor" with a few exceptions (Murray, Hope,
Berle, Youngman and L&H swing both ways). Then I think--well isn't
adult humor (by which I do not mean blue humor) just "kid humor" that's
wearing a tux or a beret or something? Maybe so.

With few exceptions, the list above works for me. There's not a lot of
good humor, but maybe there never was. Maybe humor really is like the
daily paper, its shelf life is amazingly short. As stated elsewhere, my
film group is doing a comedy selection this month and no one has ever
tried it. We've talked about it before, but it's startling how little
comedy has legs. Every time somebody says, "Hey X is still funny",
others will gag. So maybe comedy is more like cheese, some LOVE it
aged and others don't even want to be in the room with it!

For me L&H, and Bob and Ray (no film work there of note), Seinfeld is
eternal, and ponderint it now very little else, except bits and pieces.
But B&R, for example, can't even get a smile out of some folks. They
are truly an acquired taste. And any humor that is an acquired
taste--maybe that says something about it's life-span; if it's that
slow in coming around maybe it appeals to something much more
fundamental in our comedic sensibilities.

[synthi...@yahoo.com]

> Will Farrel is at the bottom of my list.

and yet, strangely, Megamind was pretty good.
I would guess that it depends on how much of the movie was made by and
for the actor, as opposed to a team effort where the artistic director
picks and chooses the appropriate elements to craft the best finished
product. Maybe if you forget this, and accidentally watch the movie
much later, and don't come to realize who it was, you could like it.

[Ian J. Ball]

On Jun 22, 4:20 am, Captain Infinity <Infin...@captaininfinity.us>
wrote:

> Once Upon A Time, TMC wrote:
>

> >http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=disp...

>
> >Just as the title of the thread states. As we know, humor is
> >subjective, so your favorite stand up comic can be someone else's
> >least favorite comic.
>
> >Comedians that aren't funny (to you):

> >http://officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ot2011&action=displa...
>
> >http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000002/flat/200689700?d=200689700&p=1#20...

>
> Lucille Ball.
>
> Milton Berle.
>
> Bob Hope.
>
> Curly Joe Derita.
>
> Phyllis Diller.
>
> Benny Hill.
>
> Zeppo Marx.

I'm sorry - but I decree the death sentence for you!!!

[Daryl]

Farrel isn't funny, he's not humorous and he can't act. He just
motors his way through parts.

I noticed that Darrell Hannah did Clinton tastefully but funny.
He respected Clinton. That is the mark of a good impressionist.
Farrel showed every distain for Bush he could. He should have
never tried to do that impression. In the end, it was just
Farrel saying stupid things that weren't funny and quite
annoying. He kept trying to cram it down the shows throat until
Michaels said enough, you are out of here.

AS for Megamind, it's a voice over. And I can bet the Director
had a huge hand in it. But I keep coming back to the butcher job
and the total waste of acting powers driveled away in Bewitched.
He had a superb costar and mostly deadpanned his way through
it. He was supposed to be the funny one. He wasn't.

[Daryl]

I found the following to still be a very funny movie with Danny
Kaye at his best.

http://tvmoviesforfree.com/mel/danny-kaye/inspector-general-the-1949-video_27949063e.html

And I remember his work in the Danny Kaye Show which was superb
early TV Work. Think of this, he gave Tim Conway his start.

[The Loan Arranger]

Interesting. Liked your point about "kid humor"

"gtr" wrote in message news:2012062209491487781-xxx@yyyzzz...

[The Loan Arranger]

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>The Three Stooges

Why I oughta....

[Movie Fan]

On Jun 22, 2:58 pm, Daryl <dh...@nospami70west3.com> wrote:

> Darrell Hannah did Clinton

Stop the presses!!

[trotsky]

Why does a thread like this automatically have to be painfully unfunny?

[dm16...@gmail.com]

While I must admit that most of Danny Kaye's early movies haven't worn too well I still find _On the Riviera_ and _The Court Jester_ watchable and funny.

Dave M

[Bill Anderson]

On 6/22/2012 5:10 PM, dm16...@gmail.com wrote:

> While I must admit that most of Danny Kaye's early movies haven't worn too well I still find _On the Riviera_ and _The Court Jester_ watchable and funny.
>

I think Danny Kaye was a seriously creepy individual and it comes across
when he's on screen. But still I laugh when anybody reminds me that the
pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle but the chalice
from the palace has the brew that is true.

And to this day I worry about the flagon with the dragon.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

[The Loan Arranger]

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On 6/22/2012 5:10 PM, dm16...@gmail.com wrote:

> While I must admit that most of Danny Kaye's early movies haven't worn too
> well I still find _On the Riviera_ and _The Court Jester_ watchable and funny.
>

I think Danny Kaye was a seriously creepy individual and it comes across
when he's on screen.

......

He is creepy in a child molester way. Never could tolerate him.

[Mack A. Damia]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:21:12 -0400, "The Loan Arranger" <x...@xxx.xxx>
wrote:

In a Pee Wee Herman kind of way.
--

[SSS DDD]

Bill Cosby was the affirmative action "safe" stand up black... funny as
death.

[Heynonny]

I respect all opinions.

I don't believe every single person with the genetic defect of not
finding Laurel & Hardy funny should be sent to re-education camps. I
am, however, in favor of immediate deportation subject to a
decades-long (potential) re-enty process.

I'd like to see some form of the Dream Act, in case their children are
salvageable as viable U.S. citizens.

[The Loan Arranger]

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Bill Cosby was the affirmative action "safe" stand up black... funny as
death.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Never understood the popularity of that man.
Now he's so full of himself, he's absolutely intolerable to watch.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 12:31:33 +0000, Heynonny said:

> I respect all opinions.
>
> I don't believe every single person with the genetic defect of not
> finding Laurel & Hardy funny should be sent to re-education camps. I
> am, however, in favor of immediate deportation subject to a
> decades-long (potential) re-enty process.

That's only fair.

[Michael OConnor]

> Bill Cosby was the affirmative action "safe"  stand up black... funny as
> death.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
> Never understood the popularity of that man.
> Now he's so full of himself, he's absolutely intolerable to watch.

Cosby never made me laugh either; so much of his schtick is the goofy
faces and the incoherent mumbling. As the first mainstream black
stand up comic, and the first black TV actor to star in a network
comedy/dramatic series, he had to be clean and his humor had to be G
rated in order to be accepted.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 16:27:25 +0000, Michael OConnor said:

>
>> Bill Cosby was the affirmative action "safe"  stand up black... funny as
>> death.
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ---------------------
>> Never understood the popularity of that man.
>> Now he's so full of himself, he's absolutely intolerable to watch.
>
> Cosby never made me laugh either; so much of his schtick is the goofy
> faces and the incoherent mumbling.

I thought he was very funny on his early LP's. But unlike the LP's of
contemporaries, like Shelley Berman, I could only listen to them once
and they were done. Berman, by the way, I modeled myself after as a
4th grader, even when I barely understood his shtick. I remember
plagiarizing a Thurber short story for a 4th grade composition. It was
a tough crowd.

> As the first mainstream black stand up comic, and the first black TV
> actor to star in a network comedy/dramatic series, he had to be clean
> and his humor had to be G
> rated in order to be accepted.

I never got any laughs out of him beyond the time he started work on "I Spy".

[Captain Infinity]

Once Upon A Time,

Oh my god, clean humor, what a millstone to carry! No fucking wonder no
one ever liked Bill Cosby, he never said "motherfucker" every other goddamn
word. What a shitheaded fucking cunt of a loser he is!


**
Captain Infinity

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 17:26:24 +0000, SLGreg said:

> Even as a child, I found Laurel and Hardy, along with The Three
> Stooges extremely un-funny.

Each to their own.

> People degrading and hitting each other isn't comedy for me.

Totally agree and assume that's part of the reason I've had an inherent
appreciation of L&H.

> Moe and Oliver were nasty, nasty bullies.

You didn't see enough L&H. Laurel and Hardy rarely, if ever, hit one
another. And Oliver is absolutely no bully. The stooges and L&H are at
the opposite ends of the bell-curve.

In fact some critics analyse that they get into more mishaps (and
slapstick coming from other directions) by trying to "help" one
another. Zero malevolence.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 17:16:21 +0000, Captain Infinity said:

> Oh my god, clean humor, what a millstone to carry! No fucking wonder no
> one ever liked Bill Cosby, he never said "motherfucker" every other goddamn
> word. What a shitheaded fucking cunt of a loser he is!

Stop it! Stop it! You're killing me! Oh that's funny.

[Mack A. Damia]

That's very true. I was puzzled by SLGreg's post. I don't recall
Laurel and Hardy ever getting into the hitting and punching that The
Three Stooges got into. Loved the former; could not stand the latter.

Talk about busting a gut from laughing.....
--

[Bill Anderson]

On 6/23/2012 2:08 PM, SLGreg wrote:

> I should have clarified...The Stooges hit each other (mostly Moe), L&H
> didn't, but I still thought Oliver Hardy was a mean-assed bully (as
> was Moe) to that insipid cretin Stan Laurel.
>
> And FTR, I've seen plenty enough to form my opinion, so please don't
> tell me I haven't simply because I have an opinion that differs from
> yours. To me, that retort rates right up there with "We must have
> seen different movies" Know what I mean?

What I know is that no matter how many hundreds of times I see it, this
will always make me smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg

[notbob]

On 2012-06-23, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>
> You didn't see enough L&H. Laurel and Hardy rarely, if ever, hit one
> another.

The did, however, attack inanimate objects with a passion. I love
their oft used gag of wrecking some other characters possession,
like the time they disassembled some guy's car, piece by piece, the
other guy retaliating in kind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqf6oX8uvMY

nb

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[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 18:08:40 +0000, SLGreg said:

> I should have clarified...The Stooges hit each other (mostly Moe), L&H
> didn't, but I still thought Oliver Hardy was a mean-assed bully (as
> was Moe) to that insipid cretin Stan Laurel.
>
> And FTR, I've seen plenty enough to form my opinion, so please don't
> tell me I haven't simply because I have an opinion that differs from
> yours. To me, that retort rates right up there with "We must have
> seen different movies" Know what I mean?

I've watched them for many years and disagree heartily with your
assessment. I have quite the opposite viewpoint. Certainly Oliver
becomes and angry and frustrated, "Well here's another fine mess you've
gotten me into!" But they concept of bully is wholly inapplicable.

I'll be glad to reconsider your viewpoint if you can't point me to a
few examples.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 18:26:41 +0000, Bill Anderson said:

> What I know is that no matter how many hundreds of times I see it, this
> will always make me smile:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg

One of their finest moments.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 18:29:57 +0000, notbob said:

> On 2012-06-23, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>>
>> You didn't see enough L&H. Laurel and Hardy rarely, if ever, hit one
>> another.
>
> The did, however, attack inanimate objects with a passion. I love
> their oft used gag of wrecking some other characters possession,
> like the time they disassembled some guy's car, piece by piece, the
> other guy retaliating in kind.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqf6oX8uvMY

Absolutely. Them squaring off with James T. Finlayson to destroy
houses one well-considered brick at a time. Or a car. Priceless,
measured humour that still has me in tears.

I shouldn't say they never hit one another, they did on occasion, but
it's mostly an annoyance with a hat or some such, and not comparable to
"slapstick" as we know it.

There is also only the rare occurance of any competition between them,
as with most "duo" comedy (Martin/Lewis, Hope/Crosby, Abbot/Costello)
whether for women, riches, position or anything else.

A film teacher I had two generations ago pointed out the inherent
protection they exhibited for one another and showed clips where their
misfortune was directly related to attempts to keep one another from,
or extract the one another from harm.

[Mack A. Damia]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:08:40 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>

wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:56:11 -0700, Mack A. Damia
><mybaco...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>I should have clarified...The Stooges hit each other (mostly Moe), L&H
>didn't, but I still thought Oliver Hardy was a mean-assed bully (as
>was Moe) to that insipid cretin Stan Laurel.
>
>And FTR, I've seen plenty enough to form my opinion, so please don't
>tell me I haven't simply because I have an opinion that differs from
>yours. To me, that retort rates right up there with "We must have
>seen different movies" Know what I mean?

Sure, but I'm not questioning your lengthy exposure to and knowledge
of Laurel and Hardy. As you said, you should have clarified yourself.
If you say L & H were into smacking, punching and the like,
something's wrong, isn't it? Because they were not.

Hardy dominated Laurel, but I don't think he bullied him. If I'm with
my family and the occasion arises, I still play with my tie in the
same silly way Stan used to, and my folks know exactly who I'm
immitating.
--

[dm16...@gmail.com]

I saw Cosby before his TV days at a club called The Moonglo in Buffalo in the sixties. The mainly black audience found him hilarious - I quite frankly couldn't understand a word he said. I have a feeling most of it was kinda racy.

Dave M

[Mack A. Damia]

Our family STILL does this when we are leaving one another....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlVu7Y5m5JQ
--

[notbob]

On 2012-06-22, TMC <tmc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Comedians that aren't funny (to you):

Jes about all the one's Netflix has up for streaming video.

WTF is Eddie Izzard and why does anyone think him funny? I never
thought much of George Carlin, either. He was funny for about 30
secs, then degenerated into being too damn sanctimonious and cynical
for my tastes. Louie CK, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams. They should
all be put in a bag and thrown in the river. Demetri Martin should be
hunted down and shot on sight. The same goes for Sarah Silverman. I
haven't a clue what the Hell Dane Cook is doing, but whatever it is,
it's not even remotely funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMpsYnHl1nQ

[dm16...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:46:27 PM UTC-4, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:32:39 -0700, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>
> >On 2012-06-23 18:26:41 +0000, Bill Anderson said:
> >
> >> What I know is that no matter how many hundreds of times I see it, this
> >> will always make me smile:
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg
> >
> >One of their finest moments.
>

I love that dance routine too. Amazing how graceful Ollie was. I understand he was a great ballroom dancer.

Dave M

[Mack A. Damia]

Please watch your trimming and the correct attributes.

Eyethngewe.
--

[notbob]

On 2012-06-23, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com> wrote:

> I watched Gaffigan's "Mr Universe" routine for about 20 minutes last
> night, via Netflix streaming. After enduring it for that long, I
> turned it off, rolled over, and went to sleep.

Yep. The best one on streaming netflix is Bill Burr. I seen that
about once a week for months. I jes noticed a new Lewis Black video,
too. I'll catch that tomorrow morning. I find my funny bone is most
active in the morning and is always ready for a good morning guffaw.

[notbob]

On 2012-06-23, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com> wrote:

> I watched Gaffigan's "Mr Universe" routine for about 20 minutes last
> night, via Netflix streaming. After enduring it for that long, I
> turned it off, rolled over, and went to sleep.

You lasted 15 mins longer than I did.

[Mack A. Damia]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:14:12 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:43:34 -0700, Mack A. Damia

>
>>Hardy dominated Laurel, but I don't think he bullied him. If I'm with
>>my family and the occasion arises, I still play with my tie in the
>>same silly way Stan used to, and my folks know exactly who I'm
>>immitating.
>

>L&H's comedic formula was akin to the Basil/Manuel dynamic of "Faulty
>Towers," that being passive neglectfulness verses fear of being
>criticized.
>
>To each his own, just not my cuppa.

Stan was a Lancashire lad born in Ulverston about forty miles from
where I was born, so he's a favorite son. Hardy was born in Georgia.
After they both dabbled in early films, Roach Studio's supervising
director Leo McCarey noticed the audience reaction to them together
and began pairing them in 1927. The rest is history.
--

[Mack A. Damia]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:25:41 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:51:56 -0700, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>

>>Laurel and Hardy rarely, if ever, hit one another.
>

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn29SQTaFiY

Oh, my aching sides! You just have to wonder how they accomplished
some of their antics.
--

[William]

On Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:26:41 PM UTC-4, Bill Anderson wrote:

> What I know is that no matter how many hundreds of times I see it, this
> will always make me smile:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg
>

If I could only find the rope bridge and the piano from "Swiss Miss." Broke me up as a kid.

[gtr]

I snooped around trying to find some of the bits our crew still does.
Ollie's hand gesture around the steering wheel, "Eggs!". That's one I
still do while waiting for driving instructions from my wife and such.

In looking for that clip I find an interview with Stan done shortly
after Ollies' death. The interviewer has had one cup of coffee too
many and won't really wait much for Stan to muse. But Stan makes an
interesting distinction between their team and many others; that others
had a straight man and a comic, where as they were two comics. That is
certainly noteworthy.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 18:49:36 +0000, SLGreg said:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:30:27 -0700, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>
>> I'll be glad to reconsider your viewpoint if you can't point me to a
>> few examples.
>

> I appreciate what you're saying, but I really don't have it in me to
> search though L&H videos for an example of Ollie mistreating Stan. I
> seem to remember him belittling him quite a bit.

It was a silly request ("Go find what you don't like and show it to
me!"). I know scores of them backwards and forwards. If you have
(truly) idle time you should re-investigate with this specific aspect
in mind. I only say this because I attribute a great deal of my
appreciation to the simple fact that they weren't adversaries in any of
the usual and easy malevolent ways.

There is a significant batch, the complete silent comedy of Stan and
Ollie or some such, six or so DVD's, that I have worked my way through
over the years. I think this is their most "pure" stuff, and isn't all
fussed up with what was necessary to make the longer movies--many of
them excellent. I find myself specifically pointing up those moments
where one goes back in the burning building (figuratively) to help the
other. I'm always surprised by that.

> I just seem to remember not liking the way Ollie treated Stan, but
> then again, it's been years, I'm 58 now, and it could be an incorrect
> recollection. I admit, I was never much into slapstick/physical humor.
>
> Can we agree on that much? :-)

Oh sure. I can't really work up a head of steam for somebody who
doesn't laugh at the same places as me. And it most definitely IS
slapstick and physical humor, but its direction may have been lost
through the fog of time.

[Stone me]

"SLGreg" <SLG...@madeitup.com> wrote in message
news:865cu7hd9sprhih3l...@4ax.com...

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:43:34 -0700, Mack A. Damia
>

>>Hardy dominated Laurel, but I don't think he bullied him. If I'm with
>>my family and the occasion arises, I still play with my tie in the
>>same silly way Stan used to, and my folks know exactly who I'm
>>immitating.
>

> L&H's comedic formula was akin to the Basil/Manuel dynamic of "Faulty
> Towers," that being passive neglectfulness verses fear of being
> criticized.
>
> To each his own, just not my cuppa.

> --
> greg
>
Really? I had it down to embrarrassing issues safely worked out through
third party.
e.g. "Don't mention the War"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk

Stone me.

[Dano]

"notbob" wrote in message news:slrnjuc4jg...@nbleet.hcc.net...

On 2012-06-22, TMC <tmc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Comedians that aren't funny (to you):

Jes about all the one's Netflix has up for streaming video.

WTF is Eddie Izzard and why does anyone think him funny? I never
thought much of George Carlin, either. He was funny for about 30
secs, then degenerated into being too damn sanctimonious and cynical
for my tastes. Louie CK, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams. They should
all be put in a bag and thrown in the river. Demetri Martin should be
hunted down and shot on sight. The same goes for Sarah Silverman. I
haven't a clue what the Hell Dane Cook is doing, but whatever it is,
it's not even remotely funny.

============================================

I'll bet YOU'RE a barrel of fucking laughs at a party.

[Bob Grimes]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:58:10 +0000, notbob wrote:

> On 2012-06-22, TMC <tmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Comedians that aren't funny (to you):
>
> Jes about all the one's Netflix has up for streaming video.
>
> WTF is Eddie Izzard and why does anyone think him funny? I never
> thought much of George Carlin, either. He was funny for about 30 secs,
> then degenerated into being too damn sanctimonious and cynical for my
> tastes. Louie CK, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams. They should all be put
> in a bag and thrown in the river. Demetri Martin should be hunted down
> and shot on sight. The same goes for Sarah Silverman. I haven't a clue
> what the Hell Dane Cook is doing, but whatever it is, it's not even
> remotely funny.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMpsYnHl1nQ
>
> nb

Sarah Silverman is good at sitcoms, plus she is hot! Wonder why Kimmel
and her are not together any more?

[Mack A. Damia]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:43:22 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:27:30 -0700, Mack A. Damia
><mybaco...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:14:12 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:43:34 -0700, Mack A. Damia
>>>
>>>>Hardy dominated Laurel, but I don't think he bullied him. If I'm with
>>>>my family and the occasion arises, I still play with my tie in the
>>>>same silly way Stan used to, and my folks know exactly who I'm
>>>>immitating.
>>>
>>>L&H's comedic formula was akin to the Basil/Manuel dynamic of "Faulty
>>>Towers," that being passive neglectfulness verses fear of being
>>>criticized.
>>>
>>>To each his own, just not my cuppa.
>>
>>Stan was a Lancashire lad born in Ulverston about forty miles from
>>where I was born, so he's a favorite son.
>

>My mother was from Bury.

Bury is about thirteen miles from Accrington where I was born. I'm
presently communicating with a few on the Accrington Web about the
location of my great grandmother's tripe shop in Clayton le Moors, a
suburb of Accrington.
--

[Howard Brazee]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:56:11 -0700, Mack A. Damia
<mybaco...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>That's very true. I was puzzled by SLGreg's post. I don't recall
>Laurel and Hardy ever getting into the hitting and punching that The
>Three Stooges got into. Loved the former; could not stand the latter.

I pretty much agree with you. Especially about the stooges.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 19:25:41 +0000, SLGreg said:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:51:56 -0700, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>
>> Laurel and Hardy rarely, if ever, hit one another.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn29SQTaFiY

Good citation! It proves my point: Sure it's slapstick/physical, but
the violence is generally not malevolent but accidental. There are a
few exceptions here, but I think there may be more of Stan than Ollie.

That's not to say it NEVER happened--I overstated. I seem to have an
image of Ollie beating Stan with his hat or one of the those J.T.
Finlayson tit-for-tat events where they rip one another's clothes off.
There's on in this melange with they doing just that as carpenters.

Still, they made zillions of hours of film and most of their physical
mayhem was accidental and not malevolent. That's why I like them.

[Mack A. Damia]

On 23 Jun 2012 18:58:10 GMT, notbob <not...@nothome.com> wrote:

>On 2012-06-22, TMC <tmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Comedians that aren't funny (to you):
>
>Jes about all the one's Netflix has up for streaming video.
>
>WTF is Eddie Izzard and why does anyone think him funny?

I was surprised when he appeared in "Valkyrie" (2008) playing the part
of General Erich Fellgiebel, a communications officer. He did a
pretty good job, too.
--

[gtr]

On 2012-06-23 19:56:57 +0000, SLGreg said:

> I like it when we can agree to disagree here, yet remain civil in
> doing so.
>
> Thank you for that.

You're very kind and certainly welcome.

My wife and I periodically do the Chip and Dale routine (I haven't yet
found them on youtube).

"After you. . ."
"Oh no, you're too kind."
"Well if you insist. . ."
"It would only be right."
"Very kind of you to say so."
"Think nothing of it, it's a trifle."

[Mack A. Damia]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:07:12 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:58:07 -0700, Mack A. Damia

>Still have lots of family all over that area. Holcombe Brooke,
>Ramsbottom. Lovely area.

The Ribble Valley? Some of the most beautiful countryside in the
world.
--

[notbob]

On 2012-06-23, Dano <janea...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'll bet YOU'RE a barrel of fucking laughs

I've seen a video of me doing it. It's pretty funny.

[Somebody]

"notbob" <not...@nothome.com> wrote in message
news:slrnjuc4jg...@nbleet.hcc.net...

> On 2012-06-22, TMC <tmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Comedians that aren't funny (to you):
>
> Jes about all the one's Netflix has up for streaming video.
>

> WTF is Eddie Izzard and why does anyone think him funny? I never
> thought much of George Carlin, either. He was funny for about 30
> secs, then degenerated into being too damn sanctimonious and cynical
> for my tastes. Louie CK, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams. They should
> all be put in a bag and thrown in the river. Demetri Martin should be
> hunted down and shot on sight. The same goes for Sarah Silverman. I
> haven't a clue what the Hell Dane Cook is doing, but whatever it is,
> it's not even remotely funny.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMpsYnHl1nQ
>
> nb

you are very negative notbob. What/who do you find funny?

[Dano]

"Somebody" wrote in message news:js58gt$smr$1...@dont-email.me...

=======================================

That clown he glimpses in the mirror.

[Mack A. Damia]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:59:24 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>
wrote:

>My Aunt & Uncle owned "The Shoulder of Mutton" for many years (before
>it was gentrified into an upscale yuppy eatery). I worked in the bar
>there several summers and it was home base for me, while traveling
>through Europe in my 20's. My grandfather was heavily involved in the
>cockfighting, up on the third floor, sometime around the turn of the
>century:
>
>http://www.theshoulderofmutton.net/sh-history.htm

I went to Peel Park Council School for a few years in Accrington named
for Sir Robert Peel. We always went for walks over a five mile
section of the Ribble Valley called, "Whalley Nab", especially at
Easter but throughout the year. I recall there was a small tea shop
about half-way through the walk called "Banks", and they had a few
swings and a slide there for children.

No idea where the word "Nab" comes from except it may be a shortened
version of "Abbey".

http://tinyurl.com/86ptyn2

If you ever saw Clitheroe Castle, there is a round hole in one
side.....

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2212522

.....and my father used to tease me (in the early 1950s) that it was
one of Oliver Cromwell's cannonballs that went through and knocked the
top off King Charles' boiled egg one morning. He also pointed out a
huge oak tree to me on the walk, and he said that the king hid in the
tree when Cromwell's forces passed under it. Don't know how true the
story was.
--

[dm16...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:07:12 PM UTC-4, SLGreg wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:58:07 -0700, Mack A. Damia

> Still have lots of family all over that area. Holcombe Brooke,
> Ramsbottom. Lovely area.

> --
> greg


I was born in Burnley, Lancashire.

Dave M

[zoom-zoom]

On Jun 22, 12:09 pm, "The Loan Arranger" <x...@xxx.xxx> wrote:
> "Art Vandelay"  wrote in message
>
> news:f7db8d99-c573-44bc...@d6g2000pbt.googlegroups.com...
>
> >The Three Stooges
>
> Why I oughta....


now *that* was funny

[Daryl]

On 6/23/2012 1:25 PM, SLGreg wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:51:56 -0700, gtr<x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>
>> Laurel and Hardy rarely, if ever, hit one another.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn29SQTaFiY

> --
> greg

Reminds me of a joke.

A little old lady came into the icecream shot.

Soda Jerk: What flavor do you want?

Little old Lady: What flavors do you have?

Soda Jerk: We have Strawberry, Vanilla, Blueberry. Now what
flavor do you want?

Little old Lady: I'll have Chocolate.

Soda Jerk: We have no Chocolate. We have Strawberry, Vanilla
and Blueberry. Now which flavor do you want?

Little old Lady: I'll have Chocolate.

Soda Jerk: We have Straw as in Strawberry, Van as in Vanilla and
Blue as in Blueberry and Fuck as in Chocolate.

Little old Lady: There is no Fuck in Chocolate.

Soda Jerk: That's what I have been trying to tell you.



--
http://tvmoviesforfree.com
for free movies and Nostalgic TV. Tons of Military shows and
programs.

[Captain Infinity]

Once Upon A Time,
gtr wrote:

>On 2012-06-23 17:16:21 +0000, Captain Infinity said:
>
>> Oh my god, clean humor, what a millstone to carry! No fucking wonder no
>> one ever liked Bill Cosby, he never said "motherfucker" every other goddamn
>> word. What a shitheaded fucking cunt of a loser he is!
>
>Stop it! Stop it! You're killing me! Oh that's funny.

My point exactly.


**
Captain Infinity

[Mack A. Damia]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:31:37 -0700, SLGreg <SLG...@madeitup.com>
wrote:

>Limeys everywhere! Northern Limeys, ta boot ;-)

There were a lot of northern English in Nassau, Bahamas, when I lived
there in the 1980s.
--

[Captain Infinity]

Once Upon A Time,
Bill Anderson wrote:

>What I know is that no matter how many hundreds of times I see it, this
>will always make me smile:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg

Why?


**
Captain Infinity

[anim8rFSK]

In article <pan.2012.06...@invalid.net>,

Plus she had big American breasts on Star Trek Voyager.

--
"Every time a Kardashian gets a TV show, an angel dies."

[JERRY SANDUSKY]

Eddie Murphy and the late Gilda Radner are the sole SNL refugees who
had or have genuine comedic talent.

The Will Ferrells, Bill Murrays, Dan Aykroyds, Dana Carveys, Chevy
Chases, Adam Sandlers, and Chris Rocks and their ilk are popular
mainly with adolescents and immature adults, who think any comic
appearing on TV must thereby be "funny."

[gtr]

It's so nice that this thread has all bonding all the way back to olden times.

[gtr]

Because.

[Bill Anderson]

On 6/23/2012 3:56 PM, SLGreg wrote:

>
> To be honest, I could have been confusing L&H with Abbott and Costello
> (whom I also disliked and found very un-funny). You'd typically find
> me watching either Warner Brothers cartoons or Rocky & Bullwinkle ;-)
>

I won't argue that Abbott and Costello's body of work is on a par with
that of Laurel and Hardy. I will, however, suggest that "Who's on
First?" is the single funniest comedy routine ever. Yes, ever. And if
it's not, somebody please, please direct me to a funnier routine.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

[Michael OConnor]

On Jun 23, 1:16 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin...@captaininfinity.us>
wrote:
> Once Upon A Time,
>
> Michael OConnor wrote:
>
> >> Bill Cosby was the affirmative action "safe"  stand up black... funny as
> >> death.
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
> >> Never understood the popularity of that man.
> >> Now he's so full of himself, he's absolutely intolerable to watch.
>
> >Cosby never made me laugh either; so much of his schtick is the goofy
> >faces and the incoherent mumbling.  As the first mainstream black
> >stand up comic, and the first black TV actor to star in a network
> >comedy/dramatic series, he had to be clean and his humor had to be G
> >rated in order to be accepted.

>
> Oh my god, clean humor, what a millstone to carry!  No fucking wonder no
> one ever liked Bill Cosby, he never said "motherfucker" every other goddamn
> word.  What a shitheaded fucking cunt of a loser he is!
>

You can do clean standup humor that is funny. Most of Steve Martin's
stand up from the 70's was very funny, but I don't know how it holds
up today, and it was pretty clean. The Firesign Theater was funny
too, but that was album oriented humor as opposed to stand up, and it
was clean. Robin Williams was funny on Mork and Mindy, at least for
the first season or so, and Eddie Murphy was funny on SNL, where there
are language restrictions, and Chris Rock is a very funny guy in
sketch comedy, but you get these guys on a stand up stage and every
other word is either the N word of the F word and it gets old after
listening for about five minutes.

As far as Cosby, it seemed his stand up was just telling stories about
his childhood experiences, like the snowball story, and his humor was
not observational in the way contemporaries like Woody Allen and
George Carlin were. Woody's stand up was clean, and Carlin was an
interesting comic on his TV appearances in the 60's when he was still
clean shaven and doing the hippy dippy weatherman and he was hilarious
and the humor was clean.

[Bill Anderson]

Doesn't matter how true it was; your Dad told you the story and you
remember it and that's how it's supposed to be. I grew up in Memphis
and my Dad told me about the time in 1812 that the Mississippi River
flowed backwards.

http://showme.net/~fkeller/quake/mississippi_river_ran_backward.htm

This is stuff you never forget.

[Bill Anderson]

My sympathies.

[Mack A. Damia]

Amen, and he used to tell them, too. I was a naive kid who believed
everything he told me in my younger years!
--

[The Loan Arranger]

"JERRY SANDUSKY" wrote in message
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=================================================
Right, unlike as asshole who thinks using the name of a serial child molester is
the height of wit.

[Judith R]

How about comics you DO find funny?

[Bill Anderson]

On 6/23/2012 8:31 PM, Judith R wrote:
> How about comics you DO find funny?

Finally somebody said it. I've been waiting.

Gallagher -- I've seen him live three times. He's so much more than
sledge-o-matic. One night I saw him stand on a butcher's block and hold
forth for about 45 minutes with the funniest string of observations I've
ever heard. Brilliant.

Hal Holbrook -- Did you ever see him do "Mark Twain Tonight" live and in
person? I've seen the live show three times. Just wonderful.

Lewis Black -- His apoplectic reactions to current events never grow old
for me.

Jon Stewart -- He does it night after night. Most of it is forgettable;
some of it, in fact, is tiresome; but often enough he hits the ball out
of the park. He's the best on US TV today.

Steven Wright -- "I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone." I
rest my case.

There are more, but these five make a good start.

[gtr]

On 2012-06-24 00:31:18 +0000, Judith R said:

> How about comics you DO find funny?

Comics, not comedians: Most of them on a good day. But no comic is
totally consistent.

[gtr]

Comedy doesn't have to be blue to be funny by any means. But shock
humor starts us right off on a social edge, so it has the easiest
leverage. That's my view. Still after so many years it means almost
nothing to me. Almost is something though.

The really raunchy sexually explicit humor that starts with such
inviting questions as "why does pussy stink", and then finds "humor"
there. There's a place for farting and shitting jokes, this I know.
But when the lurid becomes commonplace within the context of an act,
there is no longer a shock value.

Once explained to me that you can have a crazy man in a sane world
(e.g. Jerry Lewis, Steve Martin), or you can have a sane man in a world
positioned as crazy (e.g. Catch-22). But you can't have a crazy man in
a crazy world, because you have not contrast. So the expletive-absorbed
raunchy acts, a place many black comedians have staked out as their
very own, just doesn't cut it for me. I can't make it through 5
minutes of that stuff.