# The least funny "comic strip" I have ever read
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**Created:** [May 12, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148 "2009-05-12T09:19:17Z")
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### Author:  [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/1 "2009-05-12T09:19:17Z")
[Check it out!](http://www.hagencartoons.com/)
This strip runs in my local newspaper and is unfunny to the point that I sometimes have trouble figuring out what the joke is. And yet, I still find myself digging through the archives because it’s _so bad_ I can’t stop reading.
Just thought I’d share~
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### Author:  [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/2 "2009-05-12T09:23:02Z")
Some of these are reminiscent of _The Far Side_ on one of Gary Larson’s less-funny days. Others are complete non-sequiturs. I mean, many of them have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that animals are saying them.
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### Author:  [@mallurox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallurox)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/3 "2009-05-12T09:40:25Z")
You werent exaggerating at all. This should go into that thread about " Types of humor i do not get".
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### Author:  [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/4 "2009-05-12T09:43:13Z")
> [@mallurox](#):
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> You werent exaggerating at all. This should go into that thread about " Types of humor i do not get".
Oh, I’m not sure it’s humour at all.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/5 "2009-05-12T09:48:39Z")
That is indeed unfunny.
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### Author:  [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/6 "2009-05-12T10:00:41Z")
Meh.
More in the style of **Family Circus** -a relentlessly unfunny strip with incredulous staying power.
And [this one](http://www.hagencartoons.com/cartoon341.gif) rates at least a half-chuckle.
YMMV.
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### Author:  [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/7 "2009-05-12T10:06:52Z")
I must disagree with the OP here. Many of them don’t really have a joke. But some of them are somewhat funny in an interesting kind of way. There is definitely worse out there.
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### Author:  [@mallurox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallurox)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/8 "2009-05-12T10:14:05Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#):
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> That is indeed unfunny.
And you should know! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/9 "2009-05-12T10:15:10Z")
I think it suffers from the same problem as the ??? Movie movies - the creator mistakes recognition for amusement.
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### Author:  [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/10 "2009-05-12T10:22:49Z")
I found a couple of them sort of amusing. The kangaroo mom holding a birthday party in her pouch and the St Bernard being charged corkage for his flask made me smile.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/11 "2009-05-12T10:56:36Z")
> [@mallurox](#):
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> And you should know! 🙂
…well, I’m at least half certain.
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### Author:  [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/12 "2009-05-12T11:08:22Z")
So what \*is \*the punchline in the OP cartoon?
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### Author:  [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/13 "2009-05-12T11:31:27Z")
> [@cactus\_waltz](#):
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> So what \*is \*the punchline in the OP cartoon?
Which one? The cartoon shown by the OP’s link is random.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/14 "2009-05-12T11:44:46Z")
Oddly enough, [Cartoon #1](http://www.hagencartoons.com/cartoons_1_5.html) is pretty good, but then it’s all downhill from there.
I wonder if that was his first one? Then someone read it, thought it was funny, and gave an off-the-cuff “Heh…you should be a cartoonist” – a suggestion which should’ve been highly ignored.
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### Author:  [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/15 "2009-05-12T12:15:05Z")
I’m of the opinion that Kathy is the most unfunny comic strip ever. The comic minlokwat linked to is pretty funny if you ask me.
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### Author:  [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/16 "2009-05-12T12:17:47Z")
Hehe. If you read lot of them (don’t ask), you notice that at least every 5th strip involves one of these 3 things:
- Giraffes have a long neck
- Octopusses have many arms
- Kangaroos have a pouch
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/17 "2009-05-12T12:21:59Z")
The strip seems a bit juvenile but not any worse than most that are out there now. By that I mean it sucks but doesn’t stand out in its suckitude when compared to its peers.
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### Author:  [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/18 "2009-05-12T12:25:49Z")
Here are 5 successive strips that have them all. 🙂
> **[Cartoons No 146 to 150 | Hagen Cartoons](https://www.hagencartoons.com/cartoons_146_150.html)**
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> Cartoons from Hagen Cartoons: It's a Jungle out there! : A collection of single-panel and strip cartoons available for publication by newspapers, magazines and newsletters.
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### Author:  [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/19 "2009-05-12T12:37:51Z")
I guess your paper doesn’t have [“Fred Basset”,](http://www.gocomics.com/fredbasset/2009/05/05/)then. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/20 "2009-05-12T13:27:29Z")
> [@Quercus\_alba](#):
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> I guess your paper doesn’t have [“Fred Basset”,](http://www.gocomics.com/fredbasset/2009/05/05/)then. :dubious:
This is what I was going to post. I don’t think “Fred Basset” even intends to be funny, frankly\*. Which would make sense if it were a soap opera strip like Mary Worth or Apt. 3-G or Rex Morgan, but it’s not.
\*Thus distinguishing it from strips like Mallard Fillmore, which are consistently unfunny, but which Tinsley obviously imagines are knee-slappingly hilarious. I don’t know if you have to be a drunk driver to think that or not…we don’t have a control group outside of Tinsley.
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