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Comedy = Shock value for shock value's sake?
Jimmy the Squid:
Yeah but take a look at young adults today. I know we have some fine individuals here in this forum and I know there to be a number of fine individuals outside of this forum who will enjoy and appreciate good quality satire, irony and comedy that does not rely on the simple "cock/boobs/racial slur lawl" formula that so many comedies (both on television and in the cinemas) are now relying on. Unfortunately it would seem that these people are the minority, the majority being a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Alternatively they are people who are sucked in by the stupid, the vulgar, the offensive and the inane. These are the people who will continue to laugh at the tired rehashed insults that people like Mencia and Larry the Cableguy (or whatever) use as jokes. I know that humour is subjective but it is disappointing nonetheless.
For shame, young adults of today, for shame.
Tom:
--- Quote from: JimmytheSquid on 30 Oct 2007, 19:46 ---Yeah but take a look at young adults today. I know we have some fine individuals here in this forum and I know there to be a number of fine individuals outside of this forum who will enjoy and appreciate good quality satire, irony and comedy that does not rely on the simple "cock/boobs/racial slur lawl" formula that so many comedies (both on television and in the cinemas) are now relying on. Unfortunately it would seem that these people are the minority, the majority being a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Alternatively they are people who are sucked in by the stupid, the vulgar, the offensive and the inane. These are the people who will continue to laugh at the tired rehashed insults that people like Mencia and Larry the Cableguy (or whatever) use as jokes. I know that humour is subjective but it is disappointing nonetheless.
For shame, young adults of today, for shame.
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Aw shucks. I don't know about other people at my school but I'm certainly a minority. Unfortunately in Australia our youth culture is heavily reliant on main-stream-US-media representations of life and society. I think i can relate to the song "mtv makes me want to smoke crack".
Johnny C:
Superbad was hugely successful though, so there are good things happening in mainstream comedy right now.
KharBevNor:
I rather enjoyed Drawn Together. I thought that the way it got its cheap fross-out laughs, by, essentially, deconstructing childrens animation, was funny. It wasn't up there with the greats or anything, but hey. Not seen any of the others you mentioned. I would say I generally (or maybe completely, I don't know) dislike 'teen' comedies. But I don't know what you guys would count as that.
I get a very similiar form of enjoyment out of something like Drawn Together (apart from the defence I offered) from the sheer audacity of the transgression. Much in the same way as I enjoy excessively violent films, or just excessively crap films.
SusurrusIgnoramus:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 04 Nov 2007, 01:13 ---Superbad was hugely successful though, so there are good things happening in mainstream comedy right now.
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Even then, the movie had a HUGE low-brow element. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with low-brow comedy, but from the previews, it looked like just another stupid high school/ college comedy, which is not what it ended up being.
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 04 Nov 2007, 20:30 ---I rather enjoyed Drawn Together. I thought that the way it got its cheap fross-out laughs, by, essentially, deconstructing childrens animation, was funny.
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I would agree that the concept of deconstructing various types of animation was pretty cool, but the follow-through left somthing to be desired; especially after the first season.
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