Is Carrot Top a comedy genius? Is anti-comedy the true existential comedy?

Cafe Society
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In reading this MSNBC article - Carrot Top:Better dead than red

I’m starting to think that Carrot Top might be a comedy genuis. His comedy is so annoying it is subversive to all that is decent and right. With this in mind maybe he’s not on the final edge of his 15 minutes, but is on the verge of a whole new thing. But what…possibly a form of existential anti-comedy for the cynical new age? Anti-laughs for the new anti-comedy. The sound of one hand not clapping. His comedy is so deep I can’t hear the waves.

It’s naptime.

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I think you are reading far too much into this.

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It’s wayyyyyyy beyond naptime. It’s Call-the-white-cloaked-fellows, get-a-padded-room, and-fill-up-on-Lithium time.

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What a frightening thread title. :eek:

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Whatever happened to dick-and-fart © jokes?

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If not being funny means BEING funny, then Colin Quinn is an effing GOD.

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!A implying A presents a contradiction. If Carrot Top is funny through being not funny, then he is not not funny. Since this would mean that Carrot Top is funny, !A obviously cannot imply A.

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::shudders:: Carrot Top. ::retch:: Not even remotely funny.

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And off we go to Cafe Society.

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I agree Carrot Top epitomizes anti-comedy. I also agree that the AT&T ads are sufficiently annoying to be memorable. But the American “Meritocracy” was always a sham, and to see Carrot Top is a genius is to say that Ray Jay Johnson was one too. Go to bed.

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Nope. Next question.

:smiley:

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Yes. If yes means “absolutely positively not, not ever, even remotely, in a million billion kajillion years.”

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No.

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And Norm Mac Donald, Jerry Seinfeld and Adam Sandler complete the quadrality.

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Ahem…Norm McDonald is hilarious.

Carrot Top? I don’t understand what people have against the guy. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life was when he handed Shaq a basketball with a scope on it.

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If comedy is pain, then can we make Carrot Top really really funny, please?

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Let’s not forget the Anti-Comedy Patron Saint:

Andy Kaufman.

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He wasn’t?
And now I suppose you’ll say the unknown comic wasn’t a genius either.

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I’ve always found Carrot Top’s prop comedy and annoying guy persona hilarious.

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“His comedy is so annoying it is subversive to all that is decent and right.”

What a way to sell long distance phone service…not!