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[Jack Be Quick]

I'll guess a lot of the subjective nature of comedy is age related. I can get my kids to watch some Seinfeld but they push back against Monty Python. If they are life in the solar system, things like Bojack Horseman are the Earth, Seinfeld is still in the habitable zone as Mars, but anything older than that is as far away and cold as Jupiter.

I thoroughly enjoyed this analogy even if it doesn't entirely apply to me.

Comedy as an art form has certainly evolved over the years, but Prior, Airplane, and Taxi still crack me up even though they're before my time.

Unfortunately British comedy, in most of its forms, I just can't wrap my head around. Monty Python, Ab Fab, the guy in the suit with the one liners who tries too hard to be offensive, the British Office, etc. I've tried, we're just not a good match apparently. Gervais can be fine I guess. I'm open to suggestions if anyone has some killers I have yet to come across.

 

[My3Sons]

I thoroughly enjoyed this analogy even if it doesn't entirely apply to me.

Comedy as an art form has certainly evolved over the years, but Prior, Airplane, and Taxi still crack me up even though they're before my time.

Unfortunately British comedy, in most of its forms, I just can't wrap my head around. Monty Python, Ab Fab, the guy in the suit with the one liners who tries too hard to be offensive, the British Office, etc. I've tried, we're just not a good match apparently. Gervais can be fine I guess. I'm open to suggestions if anyone has some killers I have yet to come across.

It just depends upon what appeals to you. I don’t find Jim Carrey or Fred Armisen that funny. I don’t like all the British humor. Sometimes it’s just dry and not clever. I did get my youngest to watch Duck Soup for a film class and he liked it once he saw how relevant it still is.

 

[Eggtimer]

It just depends upon what appeals to you. I don’t find Jim Carrey or Fred Armisen that funny. I don’t like all the British humor. Sometimes it’s just dry and not clever. I did get my youngest to watch Duck Soup for a film class and he liked it once he saw how relevant it still is.

Jim Carrey to me = not funny.
Hate low brow humour like Scary movie etc. One or two some what funny scenes in the entire series . Elliot and his tiny gimped hand making mashed potato’s was somewhat funny.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Jim Carrey to me = not funny.
Hate low brow humour like Scary movie etc. One or two some what funny scenes in the entire series . Elliot and his tiny gimped hand making mashed potato’s was somewhat funny.

I was unaware people over the age of 10 considered Jim Carrey to be funny after In Living Color.

I'm not sure how low brow this is (probably pretty) but my girl asked what I wanted to watch the other night while I was not really doing some work so I said "throw on some background noise, whatever you like."

Bridesmaids came on.

That shit (pun intended) is kind of hilarious, low brow or not.

 

[RangerDoggo]

So apparently a bunch of HBO Max originals are not merely being canceled, but outright removed from streaming. Six movies have already been taken down. Warner Discovery is really making me want to use completely legitimate means of acquisition. I’ve seen two of those movies and they’re not even that good, but it’s the principle of destroying art that gets me.

In an enlightened world, any movie or TV show episode that gets taken down entirely would immediately become accessible to the public. I know this politician in Japan won an election while having this same stance for digital video game preservation.

 

[Saugus]

I thoroughly enjoyed this analogy even if it doesn't entirely apply to me.

Comedy as an art form has certainly evolved over the years, but Prior, Airplane, and Taxi still crack me up even though they're before my time.

Unfortunately British comedy, in most of its forms, I just can't wrap my head around. Monty Python, Ab Fab, the guy in the suit with the one liners who tries too hard to be offensive, the British Office, etc. I've tried, we're just not a good match apparently. Gervais can be fine I guess. I'm open to suggestions if anyone has some killers I have yet to come across.

Older British comedies are some of my favorite shows. There are the classics from the 70s and 80s like Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, and Yes Minister. The IT Crowd and The Thick of It are more recent. And the best part is that because they're British shows, there aren't many of them in each season, so you can rip through them very quickly.

Eddie Izzard is one of my favorite standup comedians, his special Dress to Kill is in my top 5 standup performances of all time.

 

[My3Sons]

Older British comedies are some of my favorite shows. There are the classics from the 70s and 80s like Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, and Yes Minister. The IT Crowd and The Thick of It are more recent. And the best part is that because they're British shows, there aren't many of them in each season, so you can rip through them very quickly.

Eddie Izzard is one of my favorite standup comedians, his special Dress to Kill is in my top 5 standup performances of all time.

The Fawlty Towers episode with the German visitors is some of the funniest tv ever for a fan of British comedy.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Older British comedies are some of my favorite shows. There are the classics from the 70s and 80s like Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, and Yes Minister. The IT Crowd and The Thick of It are more recent. And the best part is that because they're British shows, there aren't many of them in each season, so you can rip through them very quickly.

Eddie Izzard is one of my favorite standup comedians, his special Dress to Kill is in my top 5 standup performances of all time.

I forgot about Dress to Kill, therefore you are obviously a person of taste and distinction and I will give those others a go.

But top 5?

But it is kind of her fault that I did forget about her (that's what she identifies as now, not willing to have the discussion here).

In that line of work you have to keep putting in, well, the work.

 

[Scorcho]

this is peak comedy

 

[My3Sons]

this is peak comedy

That's just me at about 11 years old with darker hair and no glasses. Discovering rock music was a revelation for me. Still is. And I'd still dance around to it if my wife, kids, and dogs wouldn't make fun of it.

 

[Scorcho]

Saw this guy do stand up in brooklyn and it was one of the best shows i've ever been to. There' s 3 seasons of his show on adult swim and i'm heartbroken there wont be a 4th because it's just so wholsome

 

[Scorcho]

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[RangerDoggo]

What does Adult Swim have now? I’ve been so out of the loop in the last couple of years, especially since it’s been absorbed into the greater WB/HBO Max ecosystem.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

this is peak comedy

I just gave this guy a genuine shot for about half an hour as I'm a comedy junkie so am always searching for new stuff, and I don't get it. Like at all.

That McDonald's bit is atrocious. The ultimate sex move?

Should I microdose and give it another go or were you being facetious?

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Finished The Stand. It sucked outside the first 3 episodes. Do not recommend.

Debating on finishing Resident Evil now too. Dragging 5 ep in.

Hunt for Red October is on Netflix in case someone needs a great movie to revisit.

Anyone watch The Gray Man yet? Verdict? Trailer didn't look that good tbh.

 

[Devils731]

Gray Man is very generic and the action scenes are edited in a way that makes them very hard to follow with all the quick cuts and shifting angles.

The worst part is I think the stunt crew looks to have done a nice job but the editor screwed them.

The main actors do a fine enough job trying to make a retread story interesting so if you really like Gosling or Evans at least they’re fun to a degree.

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Final verdict: I didn’t hate seeing it once but I wouldn’t recommend it in general because I would fear the likelihood of people not having a good time is greater than 50%.

I guess I’m a sucker enough for dumb action that I’ll check out the expanded universe when those new items come out.

 

[Saugus]

Finished The Stand. It sucked outside the first 3 episodes. Do not recommend.

Debating on finishing Resident Evil now too. Dragging 5 ep in.

Hunt for Red October is on Netflix in case someone needs a great movie to revisit.

Anyone watch The Gray Man yet? Verdict? Trailer didn't look that good tbh.

The Hunt for Red October is great, I'll definitely have to watch that again soon. Connery was great in that movie despite not even bothering with an accent, and Alec Baldwin will always be the best Jack Ryan in my book.

 

[My3Sons]

The Hunt for Red October is great, I'll definitely have to watch that again soon. Connery was great in that movie despite not even bothering with an accent, and Alec Baldwin will always be the best Jack Ryan in my book.

Baldwin told a great story about taking the role in that movie.

 

[Scorcho]

I just gave this guy a genuine shot for about half an hour as I'm a comedy junkie so am always searching for new stuff, and I don't get it. Like at all.

That McDonald's bit is atrocious. The ultimate sex move?

Should I microdose and give it another go or were you being facetious?

just go on hbo and watch the first episode of "Joe Pera Talks to You" - it's a much more cohesive show

 

[Billdo]

Gray Man on Netflix is pretty solid as far as action movies go.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Prey on Hulu was a good grounded prequel to the Predator franchise. Was actually interested to read that the director at one point was considering not showing the Predator at all in trailers.

 

[My3Sons]

Prey on Hulu was a good grounded prequel to the Predator franchise. Was actually interested to read that the director at one point was considering not showing the Predator at all in trailers.

I watched it with the two of my boys at home right now. It was fun. We watched it in the indigenous language with English subtitles. I had to stop it at times to get the idea of what the trappers were saying.

 

[Satans Hockey]

Debating on finishing Resident Evil now too. Dragging 5 ep in.

I struggled just making it through the 1st episode, it's absolutely awful. I hate the flashbacks to the teenage high school drama shit. It's amazing that something that really is simple like Resident Evil is apparently impossible to make anything good out of.

So much of the first episode was absolutely nonsensical, hell the opening scene alone...

Spoiler

"The zombies were going after the main girl but conveniently all of them stop but 1 to attack her. Just straight trash. "

 

[RangerDoggo]

I watched it with the two of my boys at home right now. It was fun. We watched it in the indigenous language with English subtitles. I had to stop it at times to get the idea of what the trappers were saying.

I watched part of it but got too wasted to follow and stopped halfway through. I decided to watch it in Comanche with subtitles because it feels more authentic that way, and it's important representation to people who otherwise wouldn't know the language exists. I sure didn't.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Prey on Hulu was a good grounded prequel to the Predator franchise. Was actually interested to read that the director at one point was considering not showing the Predator at all in trailers.

I watched Prey last night after seeing many good reviews and comments. I feared it was gonna be a dud. Was wrong - very solid entry into the franchise. I put it at 3rd best. If they had just toned down the makeup to look more weathered/natural like The Revenant did it would have been pretty much perfect imo. Soundtrack was a 9/10 too - completely original and matched the action and time period very well.