What makes you laugh ?

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blunthead

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As a kid Mad magazine really made me laugh. It took a big chunk out of my grass cutting and snow shoveling money.

This past Christmas I got a four book hard cover edition from Mad magazine chronicling their "fold-in" section. Anyone remember those?
I loved MAD, too. I always felt Mort Drucker was a genius, loved his movie take-offs, and I always took the fold-ins very seriously. And in its way it taught me to appreciate politics and current events.
 

fljoe0

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staropeace

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Certain things that happened in commercial kitchens. The time one of the cooking students accidently used dishsoap instead of canola oil in the marinated mushrooms and Chef Grace ate some. One banquet time, very busy, the Dean told this student that we needed cranberry sauce for the turkey. We used the plastic packets. Dean said to take a big bunch and put them in the large crystal bowl. Ten minutes later he comes back demanding to know the hangup on the sauce. Yep, the student was scooping out the sauce from every lil packet and trying to fill the bowl that way. I got sick laughing which only made Dean Tony angrier.
 

Flat Matt

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As a Brit, I would just like to say that, for the most part, Monty Python was absolute crap.

Yes, there are a few good moments, but you have to wade through an awful lot of really bad stuff to find it.

I'll probably be charged with treason for saying that!;;D
 

MadamMack

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As a Brit, I would just like to say that, for the most part, Monty Python was absolute crap.

Yes, there are a few good moments, but you have to wade through an awful lot of really bad stuff to find it.

I'll probably be charged with treason for saying that!;;D

Not from me . . .I've always felt the same way . . .and the Marx brothers as well.
 

EMTP513

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I haven't met a fart yet that I didn't find funny!

BTW EMARX . . .love Pin-Head.

I can guarantee with almost 100% certainty people would find farts less than funny if they worked on the ambulance, or in Emergency Medicine. Or at least you wouldn't find it funny at the time. Especially the ones who don't even try NOT to do it in your face. Same with vomiting. That's only funny when someone else is telling the story.
 

MadamMack

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I can guarantee with almost 100% certainty people would find farts less than funny if they worked on the ambulance, or in Emergency Medicine. Or at least you wouldn't find it funny at the time. Especially the ones who don't even try NOT to do it in your face. Same with vomiting. That's only funny when someone else is telling the story.
Noted.
 

Flat Matt

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Not from me . . .I've always felt the same way . . .and the Marx brothers as well.

There are some good Python moments, but certainly not enough to deserve the reputation they have. I think their status has more to do with them being the first to do the really off-the-wall comedy on TV. They were innovators, perhaps, but they have been well and truly surpassed by others performing a similar type of comedy and most of the python stuff has aged very badly.

I've never so much as cracked a smile at the dead parrot sketch. It's just one man saying a parrot is dead and another saying it isn't. It's the kind of crap kids come up with in a school drama class. I've never understood how or why that sketch is voted as one of the great comedy moments of all time.

I'm not hugely familiar with The Marx Brothers, to be honest.

Laurel and Hardy, on the other hand, now they were funny. I grew up watching them and loved their stuff. They still make me laugh and I imagine they always will.
 

Flat Matt

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I get a kick out of them too! I also love Curly of the Three Stooges.

Again, I'm not familiar with the Three Stooges. We didn't really see them on TV here in the UK (well, not that I recall, anyway).

For me, Oliver Hardy was one of the most naturally funny men to ever appear on film. His subtle glances at the camera were carried off to perfection. I like the subtle touches in comedy and Oliver Hardy was the master of subtle touches. I'm smiling just thinking about it.