# Holy crap, that guy's unfunny - but everyone else loves him! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659 "2008-12-18T00:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/121 "2008-12-19T15:39:59Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Oh god, those fuckers. Cartoon Network is constantly talking about how popular those two shows are (at least they used to, I don’t know if they still do) and I have never met a single Adult Swim fan that can watch more than a few minutes of either. I won’t change the channel when **Awesome Show, Great Job!** comes on, but I own the dvds for **Tom Goes to the Mayor** and I laugh and laugh at them. The Mayor is a total fucking psychopath who wants nothing more than to torment Tom–a genuinely nice guy. It cracks me up. And Colin Quinn is where laughter goes to die. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/122 "2008-12-19T15:42:05Z")
Andy Dick, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/123 "2008-12-19T15:43:38Z")
> [@omni-not](#): > > Andy Dick, anyone? He was (moderately) popular when he was on Newsradio, but not so much any more. I’d be surprised if anyone still likes him after hearing the recent stories of his dickishness. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/124 "2008-12-19T15:44:29Z")
> [@omni-not](#): > > Andy Dick, anyone? No, thanks. I’m full. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/125 "2008-12-19T15:44:49Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > And no one’s bitched about Russell Peters! 😉 Oh, I think he’s hilarious. Then again, all of his jokes are familiar to me. Between my Indian family and the SO’s Chinese family, most of the stuff he talks about is really true and quite funny. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/126 "2008-12-19T15:45:01Z")
No thank you. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/127 "2008-12-19T15:52:46Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > This thread just goes to show how differently wired our humor gene is. Yep. I’ve been scrolling through this thread thinking “Love him. Love him. Hate him. Etc.” and seriously questioning the tastes on most of the respondents. 😃 Well, everybody except those who hate Ray Romano. Them, I like. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/128 "2008-12-19T16:34:12Z")
I’d like to nominate Chelsea Handler, but I’m unsure whether anyone actually watches her show, let alone thinks she’s funny. From the little I could bear, though, I found her so intensely anti-funny that she deserves to be included. ---
**Author:** ![Cagey\_Drifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/129 "2008-12-19T16:44:51Z")
I’m going to defend Sarah Silverman here. I think she’s hysterically funny. She plays a character, and if you don’t ‘get’ her character, you won’t like her comedy. Her character is endlessly naive, has a very rudimentary understanding of the world, and is very child-like (or perhaps childish). She entertains overblown fantasies of how steeling her will and committing to ridiculous causes will gain her respect and change the world. She doesn’t understand the power of her words and often says things that are horribly politically incorrect, but she says them the way a child who doesn’t understand politics or controversy would say them. She is easily manipulated emotionally, and is somewhat insecure but attempts to overcome this by doing things she thinks are positive and which make her seem cool, but which usually reflect naivete more than anything. Her album “Jesus is Magic” is pretty good (although not great), and her show “The Sarah Silverman Program” is sort of hit-or-miss, but I’d say that the best episodes of it stand among the best comedy being produced today. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/130 "2008-12-19T17:14:28Z")
> [@Cagey\_Drifter](#): > > I’m going to defend Sarah Silverman here. I think she’s hysterically funny. She plays a character, and if you don’t ‘get’ her character, you won’t like her comedy. Her character is endlessly naive, has a very rudimentary understanding of the world, and is very child-like (or perhaps childish). She entertains overblown fantasies of how steeling her will and committing to ridiculous causes will gain her respect and change the world. She doesn’t understand the power of her words and often says things that are horribly politically incorrect, but she says them the way a child who doesn’t understand politics or controversy would say them. She is easily manipulated emotionally, and is somewhat insecure but attempts to overcome this by doing things she thinks are positive and which make her seem cool, but which usually reflect naivete more than anything. You really thought people just didn’t grasp that? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/131 "2008-12-19T17:41:18Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Dunno, never saw it. But wasn’t the unfunny douche Seth Rogen in it? Highly unlikely I’d like it if so. Oh god. He was in what was probably the worst episode of Saturday Night Live I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something. I think the sketch where he was playing the little boy channeling a Catskills standup “comedy” act was the worst thing I’ve seen on the show. Speaking of SNL, Kirsten Wiig isn’t bad when she’s doing impressions - the sketch after Nancy Pelosi’s election to Speaker of the House where Wiig portrayed Pelosi really stands out - but otherwise she’s not really my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/132 "2008-12-19T17:50:47Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > He was (moderately) popular when he was on Newsradio, but not so much any more. I’d be surprised if anyone still likes him after hearing the recent stories of his dickishness. I think that was the true measure of how magical _Newsradio_ was. Andy Dick _and_ Joe Rogan, and the show was **still funny**! I mean, how could that even _be_?! > [@Max the Immortal](#): > > I won’t bother with any more. It’s garbage, and if you like it, then you like stupid garbage. Am I getting whooshed, or was this a unabashedly dickish thing to say? ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/133 "2008-12-19T17:58:33Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Oh god. He was in what was probably the worst episode of Saturday Night Live I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something. I think the sketch where he was playing the little boy channeling a Catskills standup “comedy” act was the worst thing I’ve seen on the show. > > Speaking of SNL, Kirsten Wiig isn’t bad when she’s doing impressions - the sketch after Nancy Pelosi’s election to Speaker of the House where Wiig portrayed Pelosi really stands out - but otherwise she’s not really my favorite. That’s Jonah Hill, not Seth Rogan. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/134 "2008-12-19T18:02:50Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > That’s Jonah Hill, not Seth Rogan. _looks them up_ :smack: Dammit. I must have “unfunny douche” hardwired into my brain as a trigger for Jonah Hill and that set me off. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/135 "2008-12-19T18:19:38Z")
Did I miss a mention of Andrew Dice Clay? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/136 "2008-12-19T18:21:14Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > That’s Jonah Hill, not Seth Rogan. Oooh, yeah . . . Jonah Hill is even worse than Seth Rogen. (The Seth Rogen thing is mostly jealously on my part, because everytime I see him a voice wells up inside me that screams why the FUCK is this guy whose personality, looks, and talent are bland in every way being paid millions of dollars to entertain people and living a great life partying all the time, banging hot chicks, etc??! :)) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/137 "2008-12-19T18:22:14Z")
> [@Pazu](#): > > Did I miss a mention of Andrew Dice Clay? Yeah, look at the thread title - you missed it by at least 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/138 "2008-12-19T18:31:20Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Oooh, yeah . . . Jonah Hill is even worse than Seth Rogen. > > (The Seth Rogen thing is mostly jealously on my part, because everytime I see him a voice wells up inside me that screams why the FUCK is this guy whose personality, looks, and talent are bland in every way being paid millions of dollars to entertain people and living a great life partying all the time, banging hot chicks, etc??! :)) Hey, you think that’s bad. I am apperantly a more than passable lookalike. Imagine how much it sucked to walk around Hollywood right before Knocked Up came out when his mug was plastered all over the place on [posters](http://slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/knockedupposter2big.jpg)saying “What if this guy got you pregnent?” and then have people come up to you and say “wow, you look JUST like that guy in the poster” Strangers. On the street. I cut my hair and grew a beard is what I did. That being said, I actually like him as an actor and thought SuperBad (the first movie he wrote) was quite funny. I haven’t seen Pineapple Express though. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/139 "2008-12-19T18:38:32Z")
It’s been years, but [Kevin Meaney](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbgx8AKJ6M0) still tops my list. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659/140 "2008-12-19T18:48:21Z")
Ooh, I got one that fits the topic perfectly: every Last Comic Standing winner and pretty much everyone who makes it through more than 2 rounds. Being funny is a death sentence on that show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-that-guys-unfunny-but-everyone-else-loves-him/477659.md?page=8)