# Dilbert 12/1 - actually funny! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535 "2016-12-01T15:51:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/1 "2016-12-01T15:51:49Z")
Okay, i gotta say it, today’s _Dilbert_ cracked me up so much I spilled coffee on the dog. Might be funnier if you start with yesterday’s strip and move forward to today’s: [Dilbert 11/30/2016](http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-11-30) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/2 "2016-12-01T16:13:22Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Okay, i gotta say it, today’s _Dilbert_ cracked me up so much I spilled coffee on the dog. > > Might be funnier if you start with yesterday’s strip and move forward to today’s: > [Dilbert 11/30/2016](http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-11-30) I’m cracking up about you spilling coffee on the dog! ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/3 "2016-12-01T16:55:21Z")
If this counts as funny, Dilbert must have been _really_ bad lately. (I haven’t read it for 10+ years) ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/4 "2016-12-01T17:05:47Z")
Didn’t think it was funny at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/5 "2016-12-01T17:27:55Z")
OK. I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/6 "2016-12-01T18:47:38Z")
That is pretty funny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/7 "2016-12-01T19:16:15Z")
I smiled a little, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/8 "2016-12-01T19:16:25Z")
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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/9 "2016-12-01T22:53:49Z")
I give it a meh+ ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/10 "2016-12-01T23:06:13Z")
It’s about on the level of a ghost named “Notme!” Seriously, Dilbert making a joke about how your boss gives you dumb work? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Treading new ground there! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/11 "2016-12-01T23:56:29Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Seriously, Dilbert making a joke about how your boss gives you dumb work? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Treading new ground there! It isn’t about the work. It is about his brain escaping. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/12 "2016-12-02T06:03:55Z")
I found it pretty amusing. (I did misunderstand the OP initially, though. The comic linked to is the set-up comic and you have to go forward to read the comic that is the subject of the OP. For some reason, I originally thought the linked comic was the OP comic and the set up was the one before that.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/13 "2016-12-02T06:11:33Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m cracking up about you spilling coffee on the dog! **AB** gets his coffee from Starberts, served by a bertista named Joebert. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/14 "2016-12-02T09:46:59Z")
I haven’t read Dilbert for years. Big fan maybe twenty years because he could actually craft a joke. Set up a premise and then pull the ol’ switcheroo. Sometimes he’d even do it twice in a three part strip. But this… oh look, Dilbert’s brain is literally trying to escape! Sorry, just didn’t work for me. Ah well, at least Adams _used_ to be clever. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/15 "2016-12-02T13:24:58Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > It isn’t about the work. It is about his brain escaping. …yeah. I got that. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/16 "2016-12-02T16:04:34Z")
It’s a meta-joke. it’s autobiographical. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/17 "2016-12-02T16:40:25Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > I haven’t read Dilbert for years. Big fan maybe twenty years because he could actually craft a joke. Set up a premise and then pull the ol’ switcheroo. Sometimes he’d even do it twice in a three part strip. But this… oh look, Dilbert’s brain is literally trying to escape! Sorry, just didn’t work for me. Ah well, at least Adams _used_ to be clever. I thought the brain coming out of Dilbert’s ass joke was kind of amusing, and I did not see that coming. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/18 "2016-12-02T16:43:50Z")
Yeah, I’m wondering how many above realized that **I was referencing the next strip in the series** , not the one directly linked. There’s nothing terribly funny about the first one, but it takes that setup to make the second one work. Agree that Dilbert has become 99% tedious recycling, but I still glance at it from time to time. The unexpected twist - for this strip - got me. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/19 "2016-12-02T21:14:05Z")
Moving to CS. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/20 "2016-12-03T03:56:44Z")
For me, it wasn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but it was eww-out-loud gross. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535.md?page=2)