Some survey found that to be the best joke in the world.

Kow wrote:

Some survey found that to be the best joke in the world.

Nothing quite kills the joy of comedy like statistics.

krs wrote:

Pour some olive oil into your hands and rub over the potatoes

Poor Skerret will spontaneously combust when he reads that.



g.man

hahahaha

Debated putting this in the telly thread but it's more about funny things, or unfunny things as the case may be.

On one of my rare forays into telly watching, I noticed ads promoting a show called Mrs Brown's Boys.  My immediate thought was "You can't be serious Channel 7" and upon viewing a few clips of the show and reading a few accounts of it my initial reaction seems accurate.

I got to reading about its genesis and how it won a BAFTA after being 20 years in the making. Seems it's been enormously successful and that is doubtless the reason why it's been picked up here, rather than any qualitative one.

It looks to be the kind of comedy that inspires its fans to unleash "Whaddya mean ya don't fookin' like it ya fookin' snob" on the poor soul who claims he doesn't like it because it's dumb.  It appears to be a Catherine Tate Nan sketch extended to 25 minutes, only less appealing and with less creative swearing (but more of it).  Clearly it appeals to someone though.  

I expect it will be incredibly successful here because as a rule we don't have much of a collective head for comedy.  There have been a few exceptions but on the whole, cookie cutter setup-punchline-laugh imported comedy like Two and a Half Men seems to dominate prime time television in this country.

So, impressions?  Have you seen it and laughed to tell the tale?  If you're reading this Bugul, our sitcom idea seems to have already been made.

Is that the Brendan O Carroll thing? He's been flogging that for a hundred yeats it seems, the unfunny little cunt. It's the kind of humour your granny thought was risque and should have died with Benny Hill. I saw the little bastard in the street in Dublin once, was tempted to kick him in the arse.

It was a stage show for many years. A bit like Michael Bolton, I never met anybody who actually liked it.

I watched that a couple of times.  It seems awfully proud of the format it has invented.  Because, you see, the lead character, that feisty woman who calls a spade a fucking spade, is PLAYED BY A MAN!  A man, I say!  Ah ha ha ha ha HAAAAAA!  Fucking brilliant.  A man playing a woman.  Comedy genius.  And look, they film it in front of a live studio audience, so when the actors corpse or through in the occasional unscripted knob-gag or fart joke, it's EVEN FUNNIER.

I know two people that claim its the funniest show they've ever seen. Made me hold a knife to my wrists (length ways an'all) after five minutes.

Brings out the mysogeny in me tbh. Awful gobshite.

In unrelated news: I watched Tim Minchin at the Sydney Op House with the SSO again.

pretty freakin amazing.

Dude is very funny, very clever, and writes some genuinely catchy/awesome tunes. Has a really good voice, and manages to write some genuinely moving stuff as well. White wine in the sun turns me into a gibbering girlie man.

I saw the condom clip and a few others.  It doesn't seem to have... jokes.  There was a sort of maybe almost joke, the underwear one; this only came after what the audience treated as a joke but was in fact just a reasonable answer to a question.  When she mentioned having to get them out of her handbag, the audience exploded as though this was the most inventive bit of misdirection ever committed to paper and how amazing to follow up a line as funny as the previous one with such unexpected genius. 

I do not understand why they were laughing, I don't.  I mean I do, as this is surface level comedy (the likes of which I've never seen and I've seen early 2000s Aussie sketch shows) and there's clearly a market for non-thinking comedy (hello Hangover), but it does not justify its own existence in any way that I can see.  The waving his/her head around following the one eyed robber 'joke' was cringe inducing.  I say again, it just doesn't seem to have any actual jokes in it.  It's just a man dressed as an old lady who says feck a lot.  If I was watching it from far away with the sound down to a low murmur, it might resemble something comedic.  Up close it's two forks in the eye.

Nuforum, same joke. What's the difference between Colin Mcrae and Gary Glitter? Only two boys went down on Mcrae's chopper. 

Why does Jesus have so many female admirers? He was hung like this! *Hold arms up in crucifix position to indicate massive cock*

I have a compulsive habit of telling Christians that last one. It doesn't go down well, but I do it anyway.

Discovered Text from Dog via Guardian. Made me laff. Sorry if posted.

http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/

Text from dog been in my favourites for a while. Absolute genius.