# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/21 "2016-12-03T04:01:25Z")
No, not funny. His brain exuding out of his ass? Completely not funny. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/22 "2016-12-03T06:33:51Z")
Not funny at all. Gross and crude. I wonder if the OP finds fart jokes funny? Dilbert has been getting less funny and more repetitive for years, I stopped reading it a while ago. Somehow I wasn’t surprised when Scott Adams emerged as a strident Trump supporter. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/23 "2016-12-03T06:44:38Z")
Yeah, sure, it’s funny until it happens to you. ---
**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 3, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/24 "2016-12-03T07:16:06Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Not funny at all. Gross and crude. I wonder if the OP finds fart jokes funny? [Hell yeah.](https://youtu.be/MDVrmSEZEKg) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/25 "2016-12-03T09:52:49Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It’s a meta-joke. it’s autobiographical. Now _that_ makes it funny! Alternatively, it’s a depiction of where Scott Adams gets the material for his blog posts. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/26 "2016-12-03T10:31:44Z")
I was just telling a buddy today about [this Dilbert](http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-11-17) cartoon that I thought was quite funny. Not so sure about the one in the OP, though… ---
**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 3, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/27 "2016-12-03T15:59:36Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Not funny at all. Gross and crude. I wonder if the OP finds fart jokes funny?r. SDMB is hardly a den of delicacy. 🙂 And while it’s a bit spooky, \*\*Pulykamell \*\*answered your question well. My first watching of the BS fart scene almost killed me; I wasn’t the only one who had to stand up to catch their breath. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/28 "2016-12-03T18:26:18Z")
The 11/30 strip made me … well, not laugh, exactly, but smile and blow air out my nose. (When I put it that way, it sounds gross.) The 12/1 strip, not so much. Reading the strip **John Mace** linked to, I laughed (see above) at panel 1, but not at panel 3. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/29 "2016-12-03T21:01:25Z")
Youse guys are burying the lede here. Dilbert is still being produced? I had no idea. ---
**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 3, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/30 "2016-12-03T21:26:13Z")
What’s really crazy about Dilbert is that when it started (mid-nineties?), it was considered edgy humor. How times have changed. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/31 "2016-12-03T22:45:00Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > What’s really crazy about Dilbert is that when it started (mid-nineties?), it was considered edgy humor. 1989, but in the beginning it was a lot of random jokes about science and dinosaurs and awkward dates. It didn’t become well-known until the early mid-nineties when it started to focus on business/office humor, though. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/32 "2016-12-03T23:37:02Z")
Then, by not going back to the wider perspective, he ran it into the ground as it ran pretty quickly out of fresh gags. Only so many ways you can say the P-HB is a clueless jackass. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/33 "2016-12-04T00:13:42Z")
I agree, I liked the strip more before it became entirely work-themed. The very early strip where [Dilbert discovered the subatomic planet “Minimus 6”](http://dilbert.com/strip/1989-07-30) still totally cracks me up, especially Dogbert’s line at the end while Dilbert is looking all upset. Or [“how do dinosaurs have eggs?”](http://dilbert.com/strip/1990-11-28) and [“Bob, are you aware that the egg will become a baby dinosaur?”](http://dilbert.com/strip/1990-12-01). I generally find his early stuff quite amusing. Sometimes I still use [this potato chip line](http://dilbert.com/strip/1990-12-02) when people badger me about not liking some kinds of food. ---
**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 4, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dilbert-12-1-actually-funny/773535/34 "2016-12-04T08:43:42Z")
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