Comedies People Love But You're Indifferent To

I’ve never had the urge to watch Frasier. I saw him on Cheers and that was enough for me. I’ve never seen his show.

Friends. I did watch it the first 4 or 5 years, but got sick of them after a while. Now they just irritate me.

I also must hop on the “Scratching-their-heads-at-Seinfeld” bandwagon. People in college were convinced that I really would love the show, I’d just never seen the right episode, so they would sit me down and make me watch it. Mostly what I remember is a bit about getting spit on, shot like the Zapruder film. Yes, comedy gold.

Somebody really needs to hit that marketing guy who came up with the slogan for Seinfeld that everybody uses to describe it: “Oh, it’s a show about nothing!” Yeah, nothing funny.

Watching “There’s Something About Mary” was a strange experience, in that I could feel my previous enthusiasm for both Ben Stiller and Chris Elliot dying simultaneously.

And this may put me beyond the pale, but the Lake Wobegon segments of “A Prairie Home Companion,” considered by many to be the crown jewel of the program, often seem to me to be the least funny bits of the program. It just seems like Garrison Keillor’s subtle parody of Midwestern-style tediously mundane garrulousness frequently veers into actual tedium and mundanity.
Although I do enjoy the show in general, so maybe this doesn’t count.

The late episodes of te Simpsons.

The Office - Critics are masturbating copiously over this sitcom. I think that its quality is undeniable, but I don’t find it especially funny. I would much rather see Ricky Gervais do another series of his chat show.

Only Fools And Horses - For the benefit of those under 30, this really did used to be funny. I promise. For the last fifteen years it’s had something like 40 million viewers and isn’t much better than Last of the Summer Wine.

Anything with Robin Williams or Jim Carey in.

All American sitcoms, except for Frasier and the cartoons of course.

Mr Bean - if anyone finds this funny it’s one too many. Rowan Atkinson has been in “Not The Nine O’Clock News”, “Black Adder” and “The Thin Blue Line”, yet it’s probably this that he’s most famous for.

I’m glad someone mentioned Rocky Horror, for me it was watchable, but not the work of genius many people seem to think.

I concur on Mr. Bean. I thought The Thin Blue LIne was hilarious. In fact, Bean is the only thing I’ve seen Atkinson in that I didn’t like.

However, I love Robin Williams.

I saw Rocky Horror once in college, and I just didn’t care. I suppose it might have helped if I could have seen it once without all the shouting, so I could have heard the dialogue, but it just wasn’t a big deal. I think I’d rather have seen it on MST3K.

I think Friends is funny, but I’m sick of the Ross-Rachel business. I wish they’d just let them get married and get it over with.

The Simpsons. Can’t believe I didn’t think of that one right off.

I know, I know, it’s funny. And I believe that it’s funny, I know you all wouldn’t lie to me about it, but I just can’t see it. It’s like red-green color blindness, I just can’t distinguish * The Simpsons* from an unfunny show.

I’ve seen a few episodes. Well, parts of a few episodes. My perceptions tend to run as follows: “Hmm, there’s the uptight fellow. Ah, a nuclear power plant, run incompetently. A policeman, eating a doughnut. A sly 70’s pop culture reference. Another annoying fellow, doing something wantonly stupid. A catchphrase. A public school, hilariously underfunded. Another catchphrase.” At this point my will to live begins to fade.

And I’m not sure why! This show, it’s like Woody Woodpecker for levels of annoyance, and there’s nothing I can specifically put my finger on! Is it the voice talent, or the running gags? I enjoy animation, and this seems perfectly adequate for a weekly show. I understand when the humor is intended to be funny, and sometimes it’s even witty. So why does it feel like lemon juice in my eyes?

Terrifel, you just walk out the door real easy like and there won’t be any trouble. You just made as big a mistake as if you whistled “Yankee Doodle” in a crowded bar in Atlanta. :wink:

Nah, it’s okay. I’m sure there are people out there who don’t like the Simpsons. They should be kept apart and studied to determine what nutrients can be extracted from them to benefit the rest of us. :wink:

Hey, don’t mock my handicap, man.

Muldoon III and I must have pretty similar tastes in movies. This is Spinal Tap will always be one of my favorites, but I don’t think I will ever get the humor of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Night at the Roxbury, or ANY movie based on SNL skits.

“It goes up to eleven.” :smiley:

For those of you who don’t get the Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Cheers, you have to remember that all 3 of those shows ran for years and years AFTER they ran out of funny ideas. You may have seen one of the later episodes and judged it from that. I can’t think of ANY show that made it more than 3 or 4 years and remained funny. You have to see the earlier ones (with the exception of the first season of The Simpsons, which also sucked.)

Seinfeld. Adam Sandler (except ‘Ode To My Car’). Raymond. Tom Green. Norm MacDonald.

It’s not that I don’t get the jokes; I do. It’s simply that the jokes aren’t even a little bit funny too me.
“I don’t know Majikthise. Maybe it’s because our brains are too highly trained.”