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I don't know if I really have a point or a message to this blog, but I felt like posting about the kinds of comedy I like. Then I shall invite you at the end to share your favorite types of comedy. We will all rejoice in the sharing that results.
Animaniacs - I liked Animaniacs because it's fun for the kiddies, but it's fun for us, too. Adults, or whatever we are. It's funny on several levels and often plays off things that only older people would understand like current events, Jerry Lewis, or... Gilbert and Sullivan. Helloooooooo Nurse!
Blackadder - Blackadder is good because it's sarcastic and it's rather smart comedy... you "get" a lot more of the jokes if you understand your English history. Sometimes Blackadder says the things I want to say. Disease and deprivation stalk our land like... two giant stalking things.
Gilbert and Sullivan - And you thought the 19th century was dull and humourless! You didn't? Well play along then. If you don't know Gilbert and Sullivan, they were a Victorian-era lyricist and composer who wrote comic operettas like HMS Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance. You've probably heard their tunes even if you don't know them. Here is a bit o' G&S for the Math Fans in the crowd (and I know there are at least 2.5 of you!): I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical/ I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical/ About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news/ With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse...
The Marx Brothers - Full of snappy one-liners and puns. Puns are funny. I know there ain't no sanity clause. It's also one of those lovely things where the humor just builds up and piles on top of itself until it explodes. Or I do. Laughing.
Monty Python - I like sketch comedy like Monty Python, Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live because if you don't like this sketch, it will be over soon and another one will be along. Plus, Monty Python is funny itself. They're good at spoofing things like the life of Jesus, King Arthur stories, or the Spanish Inquisition. Heh heh. In addition to their spoofy kinds of things, they have odd characters that we only wish existed in real life.
Square One TV - Once again, I'm appealing to the Math Fans. Although I have never been one myself, I watched this show religiously and I really miss it now that it's gone. It was sort of like sketch comedy but it was all math-related. Angle dance, angle dance/ Come and join me please/ Angle dance, angle dance/ we're all doing it by degrees...
The Simpsons - The Simpsons are very quotable. They're also good because they make reference to other things. (see Animaniacs)
The Three Stooges - I do not like the Three Stooges. I'm not particularly into slapstick.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? - They have good chemistry on that show and play well off one another.
I like satire, puns, and general all-around zaniness and I am generally a big dork. What does your sense of humor say about you?
srah - Thursday, 14 February 2002 - 5:01 PM
Tags: animaniacs, blackadder, gilbert and sullivan, humor, marx brothers, movies, square one tv, the simpsons, tv, whose line is it anyway?
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