Thank you for the correction.
This just in…Another SDMB member finds that their tastes are different from the general population and takes some particular bit of pop culture as a personal affront.
That’s what she said.
One of my favorite bits was Seth Rogan describing the wild weekend they had in Mexico:
I like, “Andy’s pretty cool, he’s really nice . . . but I’m *pretty *sure he’s a serial killer.”
Also, “ANDY! I DON’T WANT YOUR GIANT BOX OF PORN!!!”
And of course the whole Michael McDonald dialog.
(FTR, I’m a 40 year old non-virgin female.)
I remember watching him explain why he hired the ninety-pound woman who clearly can’t move heavy stuff for the customers – and if that three-hundred-pound guy ever finds out why he wasn’t hired, I am soo getting my ass kicked – and thinking to myself, it’s a shame that a guy with his comic timing can’t be a star, what with those looks.
Funny movies? Well, things like Airplane, The Naked Gun, Monty Python, The Big Lebowski, Young Frankenstein, The Man With Two Brains. I also like the Harold and Kumar movies. Bits of Anchorman that I saw were funny. Napoleon Dynamite.
How’s that for beginners?
ETA: Almost anything Mel Brooks come to think of it.
The part Bob Ducca quoted above is not even remotely funny to me.
Not even Anchorman or Bruce Almighty?
Oh, god, I hated those two movies. Anchorman was sold to us by a family member with the comment “funniest thing ever” and the only time my SO and I even cracked a smile was the reporter fight. The entire rest of the movie was awful, and not funny in the least.
Bruce Almighty was even worse. And gasp I don’t actually like Morgan Freeman all that much, nor his voice.
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The parts without Katherine Heigl.
It’s one of mine too.
Here’s the clip:
Just the way Andy says, “She was a ho, for sho.” cracks me up. and then later in the scene he goes off on Jay’s girlfriend trying to act like he’s all tough.
Eh, the way Rogen delivers the line kills me… plus Andy’s follow up story about his own weekend which involved making a whole lot of egg salad for sandwiches that he ended up not wanting to eat, and plus he didn’t have any bread.
Umm, you do know that all those examples are incredibly low-brow and broad comedies*, right? Nothing wrong with liking that but it is beyond ridiculous for you to not think something is a comedy if it isn’t that style.
*with the POSSIBLE exception of Monty Python. Possible.
Likewise, out of context there’s nothing funny when you read Carell’s off-putting lines as a speed-dater – but Carell’s delivery, on the heels of being told (a) to just ask questions about her instead of talking about himself, and (b) to act cool and be sort of a dick (“like David Caruso”), is the whole joke.
Prove you wrong on what you find funny? I’ll get back to you on that.
Right. Taste is personal. Humor even more so.
Well, at no time during The 40 Year Old Virgin did somebody say “Hey, nice beaver” so already it’s a failure.
And I say that as an unabashed fan of the Naked Gun movies.
It’s a great movie, very funny.
Knocked Up…I don’t think I laughed once.
On second thought I would say the Big Lebowski is the actual exception on his list. Not meaning it as a snarky comment but Airplane is really more of a “funny if I was 13” movie than 40 year old virgin by about a 100 miles. I mean, it WAS funny when I WAS 13. Lol
What’s your point? 
There’s Something About Mary was pretty good. Is that low-brow?
I have no problems laughing at low-brow.
You have me reconsidering my sense of humour now. Bridesmaids was terrible, for example.
Early Woody Allen is hilarious. A Fish Called Wanda anyone?
I am notoriously prudish when it comes to humor (bathroom stuff, drug stuff) and I found 40YOV hilarious. Actually I think it was this film that lightened me up considerably. It somehow managed to be simultaneously raunchy but sweet. And it was what proved to me that Steve Carrell can really act. The moment right after the “bag of sand” line, where his friends realize he’s a virgin and the camera tightens in on Andy’s face where he’s trying to smile and be a good sport but is dying inside? Every ounce of shameful pain is written in Carrell’s eyes. (He subsequently did this a lot with Michael Scott, which went far in making the character much more than a buffoon.)
Plus characters I would normally despise (Rogan’s stoner slacker, Romany’s overcompensating sexual braggart, the stereotypical Indians) were endearing instead of one-note. Took me a while to warm up to Catherine Keener’s character, because as an actress Keener has always left me a bit cold, but I highly appreciated that there was an age-appropriate partner for the lead. Romany watching Dawn of the Dead yelling at Sarah Polley “Bitch get out of the room!” still cracks me up.
Oh, and what’s the name of the actress who played the drunk young woman in the hideous Kangol hat whom Andy tried to pick up and he ended up getting barfed on? She was awesome; I think she might be Apatow’s wife, do I have that right? Anyway, despite the fact that this is another of my hang-ups–drunk/body-fluid-gross-out-humor–I still laugh. I just close my eyes at the barfing part and up until then simply delight in Andy’s desperate terror during the car ride, and her trying to sing along to whatever that horrific hip hop song was, as well as recounting some trashy catfight she had with one of her ‘friends.’
If nothing else Carrell earns respect for doing that body wax scene live. He should’ve gotten an Oscar for endurance just for that. It was his movie and he sold me on his commitment to it, from Andy singing “Word Up” to his “Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.”
So from this uptight chick whose sense of humor includes everything from films like All About Eve and A Mighty Wind to Red Dwarf and Peep Show, I found this to be a silly, charming, gross, bawdy, romantic comedy.