# Photo: Dare You Not to Laugh **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352 "2005-12-27T21:20:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/1 "2005-12-27T21:20:16Z")
It’s been a couple months since I’ve seen 40-Year-Old-Virgin, but I dare anyone who has seen this _not_ to laugh when they view this photo. I swear I almost died just now. 😃 [http://tinyurl.com/bo34p](http://tinyurl.com/bo34p) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/2 "2005-12-27T21:24:41Z")
Not laughing. Didn’t see the movie, so maybe I’m missing some context, but boy, that sure doesn’t look funny… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/3 "2005-12-27T21:34:19Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Didn’t see the movie, so maybe I’m missing some context, but boy, that sure doesn’t look funny… When you imagine him screaming something like “Sonofabitchin’ cuntmuffin Katie Couric,” it gets a bit funnier. That reminds me, though – when I saw the movie, I was impressed with the make-up/practical effect of the body hair and its removal. On the DVD, though, one of the special features is a “Chest Wax Documentary,” which purports to show Steve Carrell psyching himself up for the scene and reacting to it afterwards, saying that, although it was his idea, it hurt a lot more than he expected it to. Does he really walk around every day with that shag carpet thing going on? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/4 "2005-12-27T21:46:25Z")
No laughs here. \ ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/5 "2005-12-27T21:47:52Z")
I loved how the beautician reacted. She was coming unglued, and because of her so was I. It had to be real, not faked! Tell me it ain’t so! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/6 "2005-12-27T22:09:32Z")
> [@brightpenny](#): > > I loved how the beautician reacted. She was coming unglued, and because of her so was I. > > It had to be real, not faked! Tell me it ain’t so! I haven’t seen the movie, but supposedly they made a point of the fact that it was quite real and he actually got his hair ripped off in the waxing scene. The pain reaction is/was real. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/7 "2005-12-27T22:15:09Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I haven’t seen the movie, but supposedly they made a point of the fact that it was quite real and he actually got his hair ripped off in the waxing scene. The pain reaction is/was real. [The DVD apparently has some expanded stuff on this](http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051216/ENTERTAINMENT12/512160327/1339/ENTERTAINMENT) > [@](#): > > Carell also is featured in a painful behind-the-scenes glimpse at his chest-waxing sequence, in which the actor had patches of his hairy hide stripped for real, on camera ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/8 "2005-12-27T22:17:28Z")
Not laughing. What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/9 "2005-12-27T22:31:01Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Not laughing. What do I win? > [@](#): > > I dare **anyone who has seen this** not to laugh My pity. You missed out on some great fun. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/10 "2005-12-27T22:32:26Z")
I just watched the Wax Documentary, and it was clear that it was real. 😃 My faith in hairiness is restored! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/11 "2005-12-27T22:33:02Z")
Steve Carrell = not funny ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/12 "2005-12-27T23:39:25Z")
Not funny. But then again, I’ve never seen the movie. Things relating to movies are funnier when you’ve seen the movie. That ugly drawing of a girl Napoleon Dynamite drew- now _that’s_ funny! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/13 "2005-12-28T00:02:02Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Steve Carrell = not funny 'Produce Pete Steve Carrell" was always my least favorite segment of _The Daily Show_. The only funny thing about it was the title. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/14 "2005-12-28T00:49:26Z")
Obviously YMMV - I have found this movie to be one of the funniest I have ever seen. I have seen it a few times and just got the DVD and find myself in hysterics pretty regularly throughout, even with repeat viewings. That seen in particular is hilarious - but you have to be into the movie to appreciate it… ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/15 "2005-12-28T01:02:59Z")
> [@](#): > > ``` > It's been a couple months since I've seen 40-Year-Old-Virgin, but I dare *anyone who has seen this* not to laugh when they view this photo > > ``` I meant “anyone who has seen this movie” and thought it was clear in the context. Of course it’s much funnier as a reminder of the scene than as a single photo. I don’t find most overtly comic movies to be funny, but this film really had me in stitches. ---
**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/16 "2005-12-28T01:30:12Z")
I must be out of touch because I thought the movie was pretty poor. There were a few parts that were well done but overall I’m glad I didn’t see it at the theaters. The waxing part was sort of comical and I actually thought the hair was fake. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/17 "2005-12-28T01:40:14Z")
I’m with Toddly. I chuckled in some places, laughed during the waxing scene, but a lot of the jokes fell flat for me. The delivery of many of the jokes were very wooden and just badly timed… to me. And it’s really easy to make me laugh, so go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/18 "2005-12-28T02:39:41Z")
I saw the movie, the picture didn’t make me laugh. Getting stuck in pop-up hell on my ancient computer doesn’t make me laugh. Oh, and that scene in the movie wasn’t funny, it was painful to watch and it was just stupid. I highly doubt that professional body waxers make little happy faces in the hair first before they remove it all. The movie was okay, but that scene was just dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/19 "2005-12-28T02:52:00Z")
> [@OneChance](#): > > I’m with Toddly. I chuckled in some places, laughed during the waxing scene, but a lot of the jokes fell flat for me. The delivery of many of the jokes were very wooden and just badly timed… to me. And it’s really easy to make me laugh, so go figure. Huh…me too, and this is after the warm critical review the film got. It seemed to me to be a collection of tired out dating and sex jokes that were rejected from a National Lampoon movie. And the always-fine Catherine Keener as the aspiring entreprenuer/single mom seemed to have been written into a different movie entirely; one with actual characters instead of charactures. The supporting cast was alright–the best thing any comedy director can do is hire Jane Lynch and give her some dryly shocking dialog to deliver–but Carrell was lamer than a put-down horse. The sex ed scene with Carrell and the daughter was actually pretty creepy (why would the mom let her boyfriend take her daughter to a class on birth control?), and the first actual laugh I got out of the film was in the very last scene, where Carrell suddenly breaks through the fourth wall and starts singing to the camera. As for the physical humor of having chest hair ripped out–like all slapstick, it has to be delivered just so, and it just didn’t work for me. “Ouch!” does not equal “Ha-ha!” I can’t imagine this being one of the funniest movies anyone has ever seen; even setting aside odd-ball films like _Being John Malkovich_, I can’t see it comparing to something like _Arsenic and Old Lace_, _Some Like It Hot_, or _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_. Heck, I got more laughs out of any one scene of _Best In Show_ than out of the whole running length of this film. But then I think Al Pacino’s overacting in _Heat_ is some of the funniest scenes ever committed to film, so what do I know. “'Cause she’s got a great ass…and you’ve got your head shoved all the way up it!” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352/20 "2005-12-28T03:10:58Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > I saw the movie, the picture didn’t make me laugh. Getting stuck in pop-up hell on my ancient computer doesn’t make me laugh. Oh no! I had no idea. I never, ever see pop-ups with Firefox + Adblock. I dare not recommend it, but you might want to look into it. 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-dare-you-not-to-laugh/337352.md?page=2)