Was comedy better years ago?

200sols said:
People saying blackadder was good, have they watched it? Not remotely funny :confused:
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It's self deprecating, loser humour It's funny because people relate to failure and flaws. We were once a mighty empire and now just a shadow of that. That kind of almost dummie humour was popular since Charlie Chaplin till a few decades ago but its fizzled out now.

"Look at me I'm an idiot and am doomed to failure" sort of thing. It's all wrapped up in human flaws and the British way of ordering societies.

Humour is a reaction to human suffering and flaws and appears best in hard times.
 
200sols said:
People saying blackadder was good, have they watched it? Not remotely funny :confused:
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I gained the impression that soi disant intellectuals bigged it up, hinting that we lesser mortals were too dumb to get it.

jsmoke said:
It's self deprecating, loser humour It's funny because people relate to failure and flaws. We were once a mighty empire and now just a shadow of that. That kind of almost dummie humour was popular since Charlie Chaplin till a few decades ago but its fizzled out now.

"Look at me I'm an idiot and am doomed to failure" sort of thing. It's all wrapped up in human flaws and the British way of ordering societies.

Humour is a reaction to human suffering and flaws and appears best in hard times.
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This post makes sense to me.
 
Gerard said:
No, that's a fact.
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It’s a fact that you found it funny, it’s also a fact that I didn’t think that it was funny at all.
Everyone sees things their way, some people don’t like snails, I’ll eat them by the dozen, I don’t like fresh tomatoes, my wife will pop them like Smarties, I like mushrooms, they nauseate my niece.
Just because I think that mushrooms are good, it doesn’t naturally follow that everyone must like them as well.
 
I think one glance at a lot of what Forces TV has on Freeview channel 96 can tell you that comedy was not inherently better 'back in the day'...there was good comedy then, there is good comedy now, there has also always been and there will always be a sea of complete bum gravy that the good stuff sits out on dry land well away from.
 
Jean-F said:
It’s a fact that you found it funny, it’s also a fact that I didn’t think that it was funny at all.
Everyone sees things their way, some people don’t like snails, I’ll eat them by the dozen, I don’t like fresh tomatoes, my wife will pop them like Smarties, I like mushrooms, they nauseate my niece.
Just because I think that mushrooms are good, it doesn’t naturally follow that everyone must like them as well.
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Nah :cool:

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Comedy is probably better than it ever has been, save that we are in an awkward pendulum swing where people seem to automatically assume that being 'edgy' or 'offensive' is funny (it really isn't). If your sense of humour gravitates towards things that are humorous principally because that are 'edgy', then you are probably have an absolutely awful sense of humour :p :o

But, funny things can be incidentally 'edgy'. I think Dave Chapelle's stand up 'Sticks and Stones' (on Netflix) is by far away the best stand up routine I've seen and that's absolutely rammed with 'offensive' content.

In terms of modern films, 21 Jump Street is the one that always comes to mind as making me constantly giggle.

We have modern family cartoons like the new Mickey Mouse shorts, which are just soooooo gooooood.

 
Harry Enfield's shows weren't all that long ago but you couldn't put comedy on air like that now, because there would be social media outrage (which we pay attention to for some reason). I seem to remember him commenting on the PC culture killing comedy a few years back and his comedy is pretty light. People even get super offended by satire.


Southpark gets away with it because they just laugh at the complaints and then rub it in even more. So people stop even trying. More should follow their example :P
 
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Nasher said:
Harry Enfield's shows weren't all that long ago but you couldn't put comedy on air like that now, because there would be social media outrage (which we pay attention to for some reason). I seem to remember him commenting on the PC culture killing comedy a few years back and his comedy is pretty light. People even get super offended by satire.


Southpark gets away with it because they just laugh at the complaints and then rub it in even more. So people stop even trying. More should follow their example :p
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I don't think that HE sketch (which is great) would get actionable 'social media outrage' tbh. It is poking fun at women of course, but no more than it is making fun at the ridiculous nature of historic sexism. It's well balanced.

I went back and watched a few episodes of HE recently and thought it held up surprisingly well. So many excellent catch phrases from that show.

"Oi, you, noooooo!"
"We are considerably richer than yowww!"
"Only meeee!"

:D

I also love South Park. I think the best of South Park is absolute prime 10/10 stuff, particular the most recent 'vaccination special'.
 
Nitefly said:
I don't think that HE sketch (which is great) would get actionable 'social media outrage' tbh. It is poking fun at women of course, but no more than it is making fun at the ridiculous nature of historic sexism. It's well balanced.

I went back and watched a few episodes of HE recently and thought it held up surprisingly well. So many excellent catch phrases from that show.

"Oi, you, noooooo!"
"We are considerably richer than yowww!"
"Only meeee!"

:D

I also love South Park. I think the best of South Park is absolute prime 10/10 stuff, particular the most recent 'vaccination special'.
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The professionally offended would be all over it.
 
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