Lost Humor or Age Gap - Page 3

garinda · 06-02-2012, 12:20

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Slapstick and the comedy of cruelty did not originate with the comedians of the music hall and the silent cinema, it is first formalised in ancient greek theatre, but it's origins are as old as humanity itself. The same goes for bum jokes!

I pretended to slide back into the primeval swamp, the very first time I'd just slithered out of it.

Purely for comedic effect.

Acrylic-bob · 06-02-2012, 13:05

You lost your grip then?

MargaretR · 06-02-2012, 13:17

I have noticed that tastes in humour change as society changes.

I have listened to 'old style' humour on Radio 4extra (Goon show and Ray's a laugh etc), and it isn't funny any more. I find the Carry On films and Norman Wisdom 'cringeworthy'.

I think our society grew out of slapstick and became cynical, causing satire to be popular.

garinda · 06-02-2012, 14:51

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I have noticed that tastes in humour change as society changes.

I have listened to 'old style' humour on Radio 4extra (Goon show and Ray's a laugh etc), and it isn't funny any more. I find the Carry On films and Norman Wisdom 'cringeworthy'.

I think our society grew out of slapstick and became cynical, causing satire to be popular.

It's so hard to define why something's funny, and makes us laugh.

Silent Laurel and Hardy films amuse me, whereas Charlie Chaplin leaves me cold.

Monty Python, never get it. Fawlty Towers, hilarious.

jaysay · 06-02-2012, 19:34

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Originally Posted by garinda

It's so hard to define why something's funny, and makes us laugh.

Silent Laurel and Hardy films amuse me, whereas Charlie Chaplin leaves me cold.

Monty Python, never get it. Fawlty Towers, hilarious.

Well I certainly agree about Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, the only problem with Fawlty Towers is they only made 12 episodes

katex · 07-02-2012, 10:24

I'm the world's worst at concentrating on stand up comedians .... glaze over most of the time.

Does depend on the delivery though. Billy Connelly never made me cringe when he swore.

Just flicking to a TV series, every time Mrs. Brown swears, she (he) makes me laugh just because she does.

cashman · 07-02-2012, 12:44

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Originally Posted by katex

I'm the world's worst at concentrating on stand up comedians .... glaze over most of the time.

Bacardis to blame fer that.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-02-2012, 12:55

I must, somewhere along the way, have lost my sense of humour.
I find most of the supposed comedians contrived and so far up their own rectums, that seven men with miners' lamps would never find them.

The only one that I can tolerate is John Bishop....and I have to be in the right frame of mind for him too.
I do not like bad language.....if something has to rely on foul or coarse language to make it funny, then it never was a topic of humour.

And it is Ok talking about Canterbury Tales and such like things.......That language was the language of the day. But surely we have moved on. I think that some of these stand up comics use bad language for its shock value(except that after a while, it loses its shock value because we have heard it all before)......much as they use some of the crass and insensitive topics for the same reason. They remind me of 12 year olds who don't know any better.

If you hit your thumb with a hammer, trap your finger in a door, burn yourself on the iron...then an expletive is acceptable as a release of tension.

Swearing is not entertainment....and if it is on TV, I leave the room.

So I guess I am in the old fuddy duddy camp.

alan7554 · 07-02-2012, 13:00

get the frankie boyle dvd, stand up "if i could reach through the tv and strangle you i would" he is hilarious and tells it like it is

Margaret Pilkington · 07-02-2012, 14:08

Nope, Frankie Boyle is something that should be lanced. He is about as funny as a boil on the btm. He is an insensitive goon. If it makes you laugh then all well and good, but not for me.

mobertol · 07-02-2012, 14:14

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Nope, Frankie Boyle is something that should be lanced.

Would that be a joke Margaret?

(It's the way she tells 'em!)

Margaret Pilkington · 07-02-2012, 14:21

No not really Dianne...even as a pun - it is only half a pun and that is bumping weight(ask your Mum she might know what I mean)

Eric · 07-02-2012, 16:06

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I have noticed that tastes in humour change as society changes.

I have listened to 'old style' humour on Radio 4extra (Goon show and Ray's a laugh etc), and it isn't funny any more. I find the Carry On films and Norman Wisdom 'cringeworthy'.

I think our society grew out of slapstick and became cynical, causing satire to be popular.

I don't think that tastes in humor change. They remain a constant; it is societal attitudes that change.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-02-2012, 16:11

There must be something wrong with me. I could happily listen to the goon shows, the Navy Lark, Round the Horne....Ron and Eth were in another serial (the name of the program escapes me right now, but I'm sure that in the wakeful hours between two and four am, it will knock on the inside of my cranium).
Oh, no...it has come to me.......The Glums. Meet the Huggetts was another one I could happily re-visit.

Eric · 07-02-2012, 16:14

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

There must be something wrong with me. I could happily listen to the goon shows, the Navy Lark, Round the Horne....and the Serial with Ron and Eth (the name of the program escapes me right now, but I'm sure that in the wakeful hours between two and four am, it will knock on the inside of my cranium).
Oh, no...it has come to me.......The Glums. Meet the Huggetts was another one I could happily re-visit.

You're just weird is all