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[Shine On]

Monty Python! Need i say more?!

[Ash]

May I add Only Fools and Horses, Steptoe and Son, Fawlty Towers, Open All Hours, Red Dwarf (except the easter special), One Foot in the Grave?

Truly, Britain has the most varied and brilliant of sitcomes. Hell, we fucking invented the sitcom, and applied it to so many different themes and facets of British culture before complete drivellous puddles of humourless vomit like Friends, Seinfeld, Malcolm in the Middle (in fact, any live-action American sitcom as they're all wholly unfunny - Simpsons and Family Guy are exempt), The Office (I like Gervais' stand-up, not his sitcoms), Little Britain, Bo' Selecta et al completely ruined comedy shows as a whole. And a part of me died when I saw I'm Alan Partridge, and that came thirteenth in the ultimate sitcom poll - a place that could've been given to a proper fucking comedy that was actually funny.

[Casen]

Malcolm in the Middle

WOAH! Stop right there. Malcolm in the Middle was fucking hilarious, I fucking miss that show!

Hell, I'd go as far as to say it's underrated. People never talk about it, it's drifted into obscurity.

Wow, I feel the need to torrent it now that you've reminded me.

Family Guy

You think Malcolm in the Middle is unfunny, yet you like Family Guy?

...wow. Shows how shit your comedic tastes are.

Family Guy is complete garbage. Even Fox knew that and canceled. Then the anime faggots with terrible taste on Adult Swim started to like it, and all of the sudden it's popular. How surprising.

If you want a good animated Comedy, try South Park or Futurama. Simpsons is alright though a bit overrated, especially nowadays.

Edited by Kacen, 20 May 2009 - 01:45 AM.

[Beowulf]

Dislike Family Guy all you want but it's good for a laugh. Everyone needs brainless comedy to pass the time. Now don't get me wrong, I love Futurama and South Park (except lately it's felt kinda bland; old seasons rule) but nothing beats a good sex quip from Quagmire or an insane Peter flashback.

Besides, I'm getting tired of you ragging on everyone for, god forbid, having varying taste in comedy. Not everyone is the same or shares your brand of humor, though I find you lack a really good sense of it anyway. But anyway, it's kinda cheap to assume someone's taste is 'shit' because he enjoys something you do not. Here's a thought, GET THE FUCK OVER IT.

[Ash]

If you want a good animated Comedy, try South Park or Futurama. Simpsons is alright though a bit overrated, especially nowadays.

How dare you even begin to try and rag on my comedy tastes if you like South Park? It's abysmally crap. I don't mean a 'so-bad-it's-good' kind of crap, I mean a truly, truly awful, 'can-watch-but-don't-even-crack-a-smile' kind of crap. Torrent Mighty Boosh or Bo'Selecta while you're at it. They're in the same sort of league.

Futurama, I'm sorry, is just the Simpsons set in the future. Both are alright, and I'll agree overrated and that the quality has gone down, but certainly not laugh-a-minute.

[Allathar]

South Park is crap? How dare you! It's one of the best animated comedies, imo. The jokes are sometimes vulgar but usually great, and they always find a way to have a completely bizarre yet awesome storyline in the episodes. Not to mention the great characters - I mean, who can't like Cartman? And it sounds strange, but there's also a message to the society in the episodes.

[Shine On]

WOAH! Stop right there. Malcolm in the Middle was fucking hilarious, I fucking miss that show!

Well i guess that REALLY shows what kinda of a void your comical taste has. I really can find anything funny about it apart from the fact that it manages to waist about 25 mins of air time. That also goes for South Park now, in the first years when it came out it was great because it was so random, violent and wrong but it quickly lost its appeal and im just shocked that it lasted as long as it has.

The Simpsons, Futurama etc. are all great if you want a good laugh and cheering up. I feel they all have started to loose their comical edge they used to have, mostly with the simpsons. Family Guy is great cause of the sheer randomness with the humour, something new which you can easily go back and laugh at again and again.

[Casen]

I'm actually going to assert that South Park is one of the few shows that got better later. At the beginning it was, literally, meaningless vulgar toilet humor, but now, while still retaining that, it uses it as clever pop culture commentary.

Fuck just watch the episode where they mock Family Guy and the Prophet Muhammad Cartoons for a good example.

[Allathar]

Or one of the new episodes, where they comment on the economical crisis. They have the same opinion on it as me

And also the Imaginationland trilogy. Where Muslim terrorists attack our imagination, and the American imagination starts running wild... The rest of the episodes is just hilarious bullshit with Gandalf, Luke Skywalker, Morpheus, good ol' Jesus, and Cartman who wants Kyle to suck on his balls, but that early part was very clever.

[Ash]

It's beyond vulgar, and not even in the same vulgarity spectrum as toilet humour. Family Guy has enough of that. Toilet humour isn't the problem because toilet humour *can* be funny. It's nonhumour that's the problem because it can't.

I prefer a more intelligent strain of humour, as a rule. Alternately, off-colour deadpan or black comedy. South Park can't do any of those things properly. I also think that they justify the crapness of the artwork by saying they're trying to be "funny", when in fact they're nothing of the sort. Sure, they might have the occasional amusing line but to me it's just low and base.

[Spectre]

I generally like most stand-up acts, and most comedians; Dane Cook, although is very ecstatic, has some funny stand-up acts, the Vicious Circle was alright. Carlos Mencia and Dane Cook have some quality acts; I still don't get why people think he just rips off other comedians, he might rip off others from time to time, which I still don't believe, he's pretty good.

I like South Park, the randomness is amusing; but sometimes a plot which shouldn't have been there is present, like that slut episode, it was strange.

[Casen]

Carlos Mencia -was- funny...well I think his first stand up act, from 2004, was funny. But he's literally at this point making racial humor so utterly overdone and passe` and he's selling himself out. Now he's just...ugh, pathetic.