Popular comedies you just don't get.
I don't understand what's so funny about any of the "Ghostbuster" movies.

marble falls
(67,055 posts)Doc Sportello
(7,964 posts)One of the five best tv shows ever.
underpants
(191,559 posts)The dickless joke. I never understood what was so great about it.
Auggie
(32,428 posts)They play characters of the type that annoy me at a molecular level.
marble falls
(67,055 posts)... to me they're a lot like Victoria Jackson. Stupid is not necessarily funny.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,940 posts)But it isn't his traditional broad comedy. It's more of a dramedy. I liked it a lot.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Beatlelvr
(748 posts)But any Monty Python.
Blazing Saddles
Any Adam Sandler
Meet the Fockers
Puleeeeese
wryter2000
(47,915 posts)The only truly amusing scene in the first one was Eric Idle trapped in a tower with a bunch of lecherous nuns-to-be.
What's supposed to be funny about a torso gushing blood and claiming he's about to win the battle? Gross.
I adored the TV shows. Some of the skits fell flat, but some were brilliant and funny.
Diamond_Dog
(37,674 posts)marble falls
(67,055 posts)Tetrachloride
(8,850 posts)nuxvomica
(13,474 posts)Carl's (S.Z. Sakall) friends are excited to be on there way to the U.S. and have resolved to speak only English:
Mr. Leuchtag: Liebchen - sweetness heart, what watch is it?
Mrs. Leuchtag: Ten watch.
Mr. Leuchtag: Such watch!
Carl: Hm. You will get along beautiful in America, mm-hmm.
Of course it helps to know that "uhr" is colloquial German for both the time of day and the wristwatch.
nuxvomica
(13,474 posts)Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis are the ones to watch.
Exactly
BootinUp
(50,104 posts)marble falls
(67,055 posts)bif
(25,930 posts)I also don't get Eugene Levy. The most unfunny funny guy ever. Or wait, that would be Bob Hope.
wryter2000
(47,915 posts)Just stupid mugging. Cringe=worthy, not funny.
bif
(25,930 posts)But didn't hold up well...
"The In-Laws" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)hunter
(39,677 posts)Every time I tried to watch those I felt like...
... I don't get it.
I thought the original Ghostbusters was funny.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are funny in The Other Guys.
I don't like "Elf."
I like Monty Python.