I’ve never watched episodes of
Seinfeld
Friends
Everybody Loves Raymond
Most other sit coms of the last fifteen years
Maybe I would like them if I did, but I just got warn out with the vapidness of some. Cheers was the last one I liked and even that lost its pizazz.
For movies, I watched about ten minutes of Mike Myers and was completely turned off by it.
4 Weddings and a Funeral: Not. a. single. laugh.
While I agree with this concept for the most part (especially regarding Hitchhiker’s), I have to say that Rocky Horror still didn’t do it for me. I saw it for the first time with a bunch of people who went almost every weekend, and it was their “thing.” While it was obvious they were enjoying themselves, and some of their exuberance rubbed off on me, I still couldn’t get that into it. There were things that I rather would have been doing. Just not my thing, I guess.
Other movies that get me this way… just about any Meg Ryan romantic comedy leaves me flat. When Harry Met Sally annoys the living crap out of me, in particular.
Most of the slapstick/stupid comedies of ex-SNL cast members or ex-Living Color cast members (including Jim Carrey) bore me as well, though I have a certain fondness for Liar Liar.
And while There’s Something About Mary had a couple funny moments, overall I thought it was just sort of gross (this from a guy who thought Peter Jackson’s Dead-Alive was uproariously funny… no, I don’t get it either).
Tommy Boy
And any Adam Sandler movie, especially Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. I did like The Wedding Singer which, oddly enough, is the one my friends like the least.
For me it would probably have to be The Big Lebowski. I loved the movie, I’ve seen it 3 or 4 times and I expect I’ll probably watch it at least every couple of years for the rest of my life but it just really wasn’t that funny. The only parts I laughed out loud at in the theatre was when he dropped the roach in his lap and wrecked the car and something the nihilist said around the part where Donnie died, and those didn’t hold up to repeat viewings.
Same with The Princess Bride. Easily in my top 5 movies, maybe even top 3, but not because it’s funny. It’s just good lighthearted fantasy/adventure. That and I’ve always had a soft spot for Andre the Giant. DON’T watch the featurette about him on the special edition DVD if you tear up easily. I mean uh, I didn’t cry or anything but uh, you know, some wussies might…:.D&R:: 
OK now that I read that I realize it doesn’t give a good impression of my sense of humor. If you’ve seen the scene though you know how perfectly it was excecuted and well, at the time I could kind of relate to it
I swear I don’t like Rob Schneider movies!
When it comes to “The Princess Bride”, I’m still scratching my head. For years, people told me how hilarious the movie was and how I needed to see it ASAP.
I rented the DVD recently, and I thought it was fairly entertaining, but not especially funny. Maybe one or two scenes.
I have no luck with anything by the Farrelly Brothers either, except for “Kingpin”, which still makes me laugh harder and more often than most so-called comedies.
But, strangely enough, while most people I talk to don’t care for “Kingpin”, they find the rest of the Farrelly catalogue----Dumb And Dumber, There’s Something About Mary, Shallow Hal, etc.----amazingly funny, and all of those films just bore me to death.
The Austin Powers series. And the Farrelly Bros. films. Adult films but childish jokes. No thank you.
Ok, this is not a show people love (at least not anyone I´ve heard of) so it doesn´t really fit in with what has been posted so far but I´ll shoot anyway.
I just cannot understand what is so funny about The Nanny. Apparently some viewers must like this show since so many episodes were made, but I just cannot see the attraction.
It keeps being shown again and again on various channels here in Sweden so I guess some people watch it otherwise it would get cancelled. Or maybe the newworks get it dirt cheap.
You know I find most tv shows this way … every one says ya gotta see this and then i see it and "its ok " nothing special
But movies ive thought this of was the jurassic park series lotr movies and others …
I’m with many of the ones already stated. Mel Brooks does nothing for me. In fact, I would rather take a kick in the ass than suffer through ‘Spaceballs’ again. I can’t stand Kevin Smith, but that could be more for his godforsaken fanboys than anything else. Most sitcoms I find eh. Everybody does not love Raymond, because I don’t love him. Seinfeld I could only take in small doses.
On the other hand, I really like a lot of comedies that a lot of people actively dislike. Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bull Durham. So I’m probably just out of sync.
Legomancer–I LOVE Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Dark, wry comedy I love.
But then I also love Dumb and Dumber, for some reason. The only Adam Sandler movie I actually like is Happy Gilmore.
There were some parts of The Princess Bride that I loved, mostly the scenes with Wallace Shawn and Andre the Giant. “Inconceivable!” I thought that was funny. But for the most part, I saw it as a mushy romance with some comedy thrown in.
Oh, another movie: Shrek. I loved it the first couple of times, but it grew really boring after that (except for the Lord Farquad parts—I love his character). “Ha ha, they’re ripping Disney apart; that’s funny!” Yeah, it was. The first two times, then it got really boring. And I didn’t think it was good enough to put a whole new catagory into the Oscars. There have been far greater animated movies that should have done that in the past.
I’m glad to know I am in good company here. Most of the ones that I was going to list have already been mentioned. At the top of my list would be Adam Sandler. The guy is just not funny to me, period. Same goes for any Austin Power movie.
My girlfriend at the time wanted me to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show with her at the theater several years ago. I just didn’t “get” most of what was going on in that show and I just wanted it to end.
Add to my list most TV sitcoms such as “Seinfeld”, “Friends”, “Cheers”, “Frasier”, and “Everybody Loves Raymond.” I just never understood the appeal of these shows.
Now there are several comedies that I have enjoyed, but since the OP doesn’t ask for these I’ll defer them to a more appropriate thread when it comes up.
I don’t like Seinfeld. Oh, there were occasional funny moments, but on the whole I just found it irritating.
I am SO glad to find I’m not the ONLY person in the world that didn’t like Seinfeld! I Just Didn’t Like Those People.
I’ve never seen an episode of Friends, so I can’t comment on whether I like them or not. Nothing in the situation resonates with me, so I’m guessing I wouldn’t.
The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies, not because it’s so funny, but because it’s so … sweet, I guess. And it has quotable lines. And Andre the Giant.
I actually like most of the movies already listed. How can you not like Caddyshack?! Blasphemy!
Anyway, my pick is Best in Show. I don’t find it amusing at all.
Count me in on Adam Sandler.
Tanaqui, I was afraid I’d have that same reaction to Holy Grail. Almost a year ago I posted a thread here about Python humor, asking for advice on how to get into it. I’d never seen the show or movies and wanted felt like I was missing out. So I went ahead and bought the DVD. I’ve almost worn it out and now my 2 year old son watches it with me.
Is Say Anything supposed to be funny? I’m kinda blah to it. Indifferent.
Any of the incarnations of Blackadder. Just lots and lots of jokes consisting of the smart, cynical, “Oh, woe is me” guy beating up on the Very Stupid guy. So? (FTR, I admire Rowan Atkinson a lot - he’s got a two-man stage show that has me in hysterics, in addition to the perversity of Mr Bean.)
Jeeves and Wooster - again, I like Messrs. Fry & Laurie a lot but I can’t sit still through the actual episodes. Wooster’s an idiot, and Jeeves saves him from himself. Add a lot of old college chums with ridiculous nicknames and a lot of scheming females. No, thank you!
Frasier - the people behind Cheers recycled the formula with a smaller cast. Two equally clueless, snobbish brothers take turns getting into trouble and have to get themselves out again. Over and over and over. With occasional pauses to receive Emmy awards. sigh
I have watched nearly every Woody Allen movie, and also read his books, and the most I’ve gotten out of the whole lot is the very infrequent chuckle. I finally watched “Annie Hall”, and that’s two hours of my life I’m never getting back. Good lord, man, if you’re so depressed and full of self-loathing, just shoot yourself and get it over with - quit making movies about it. (Or maybe they should be classified as “Fantasy” movies - a whiny, neurotic basket case like that getting all the chicks he gets in his movies? Suuuuure.)
Also, count me in with the “Austin Powers sucks donkey wing-wangs” crowd. And Chris Farley, too. And Rob Schneider. And Martin Lawrence. And Joe Pesci.
Those 5 words have absolutely no business being in the same post.