# The least funny "comic strip" I have ever read
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**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")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/21 "2009-05-12T13:37:25Z")
[This one](http://www.hagencartoons.com/cartoon58.gif) is a blatant rip-off of a (much funnier) [Calvin & Hobbes strip](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1379/1090/1600/calvinpoker.gif).
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/22 "2009-05-12T13:55:56Z")
I’ve seen much worse. _The Family Circle_, for example. Some of those cartoons got a smile out of me.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/23 "2009-05-12T14:13:35Z")
The Chicago Tribune runs several that I find particularly awful, but _someone_ undoubtedly likes them:
[The Lockhorns](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/lockhorn/about.htm) – to me, this sort of humor stopped being funny around 1978. It revolves around the same half-dozen jokes, told again and again:
- The husband drinks too much
- The husband likes to flirt with pretty young women
- The husband is lazy
- The wife cannot cook
- The wife spends too much
- The wife cannot sing
A few years ago, I wrote a letter to the Tribune, commenting on some of their comic strips (and calling this one out by name as needing to be put out to pasture). An old woman, who read my letter in the Trib, wrote back to me, personally, saying that she _loved_ The Lockhorns, and telling me that my own sense of humor wasn’t funny (I’d commented on missing discontinued strips like The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes).
Thankfully, The Lockhorns only runs on Sundays now, so it’s easier to ignore. 🙂
[Raising Hector](http://www.raisinghector.com/) I’m absolutely positive that this strip runs because the Trib decided they needed a Hispanic comic strip. But, lordy, there must be a better option out there than this dog. The art is terrible, and the jokes were dated when The Lockhorns were still funny!
[Cathy](http://www.arcamax.com/cathy) Just doesn’t entertain me in the least, but then, I’m not a middle-aged woman. Maybe I’d like it more then.
Peanuts made me very sad in the last few years that Charles Schultz was alive; it clearly just wasn’t funny anymore, but no one had the heart to get Schultz to hang it up. Now that they’re running old strips from the 60s, at least we can enjoy what made that strip so special.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/24 "2009-05-12T14:17:32Z")
Looks geared for young kids maybe.
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### Author:  [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/25 "2009-05-12T14:24:34Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#):
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> [Check it out!](http://www.hagencartoons.com/)
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> 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.
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> Just thought I’d share~
The sharks collided because one of them can’t figure out which way to circle the victim. I think that’s hillarious.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/26 "2009-05-12T14:25:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> [Raising Hector](http://www.raisinghector.com/) I’m absolutely positive that this strip runs because the Trib decided they needed a Hispanic comic strip. But, lordy, there must be a better option out there than this dog. The art is terrible, and the jokes were dated when The Lockhorns were still funny!
It’s like a bad ripoff of Baldo.
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### Author:  [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/27 "2009-05-12T14:29:25Z")
I can’t remember the last time any comic made me even crack a smile. Part of me questions why they still even exist, yet part of me is reminded they must churn out a new one daily and the sheer monotony would even prevent me from being consistently funny.
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### Author:  [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/28 "2009-05-12T14:33:46Z")
Yikes. I love humor. At first I was like: 😑
Then I was like: 😑
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/29 "2009-05-12T14:35:45Z")
All comics mentioned here are still better than “Mallard Fillmore”.
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### Author:  [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/30 "2009-05-12T14:52:12Z")
> [@BrandonR](#):
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> …they must churn out a new one daily and the sheer monotony would even prevent me from being consistently funny.
Or feeling well-rested or maintaining a reasonable blood pressure.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/31 "2009-05-12T15:09:37Z")
When the comic is titled “Sorry Guys”, you [know](http://www.dummcomics.com/index?sid=269) it’s going to be [bad](http://www.dummcomics.com/index?sid=268).
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/32 "2009-05-12T15:27:36Z")
To the OP: It’s not that there aren’t funny ideas, it’s that the artist doesn’t know how to write a punchline. Nearly all of them would be improved considerably by better writing.
For instance, [this one](http://www.hagencartoons.com/cartoon248.gif) would be better as “Eats like a bird? Ha!” It would also work better if it showed the restaurant out of food.
And few things beat the utter badness that is **[Cats with Hands](http://www.mrboffo.com/cwharchives/cwharch.htm)**
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### Author:  [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/33 "2009-05-12T15:43:57Z")
> [@Mosier](#):
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> The sharks collided because one of them can’t figure out which way to circle the victim. I think that’s hillarious.
The rest of us can’t see it, unfortunately. But it sounds funny, yes.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/34 "2009-05-12T15:57:56Z")
> [@](#):
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> All comics mentioned here are still better than “Mallard Fillmore”.
Check out [Right Left Center](http://comicstripclub.com/). It’s a Mallard Fillmore wannabe that’s dumber than the original.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/35 "2009-05-12T16:08:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Check out [Right Left Center](http://comicstripclub.com/). It’s a Mallard Fillmore wannabe that’s dumber than the original.
Oh, yeah…I never thought I’d say it, but that IS dumber than MF.
Incidentally, I love my partner. But if he went on a killing rampage, broke into all the other homes in the neighborhood, and held the neighbors in a “Funny Games” style torture/murder scenario, I’d probably want to warn people away from him. And try to reason with him to stop it.
Loving your country doesn’t mean that you shut up about anything it does. Loving your country means trying to make sure it doesn’t do wrong, and making up for it if it does.
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### Author:  [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/36 "2009-05-12T16:29:54Z")
I faithfully read comics for many years when I still got a newspaper. Many (most, all?) published comics started out great and then faded badly. Wizard of Id and BC come to mind.
But the one the was too far before my time and I never got was [Blondie](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/blondie/about.htm). Never made me crack a smile once, reading it was just a habit.
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### Author:  [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/37 "2009-05-12T16:36:06Z")
Easy! [Cathy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_(comic_strip))…the most offensively stereotypical female comic strip.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/38 "2009-05-12T16:47:30Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#):
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> [This one](http://www.hagencartoons.com/cartoon58.gif) is a blatant rip-off of a (much funnier) [Calvin & Hobbes strip](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1379/1090/1600/calvinpoker.gif).
I could swear I’ve seen a Far Side that used the same gag but I wouldn’t know where to start looking.
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### Author:  [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/39 "2009-05-12T16:54:12Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> I could swear I’ve seen a Far Side that used the same gag but I wouldn’t know where to start looking.
Doesn’t ring a bell, and I’ve got a shelf full of Gary Larson here next to me. Could be, though.
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### Author:  [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-least-funny-comic-strip-i-have-ever-read/496148/40 "2009-05-12T16:59:20Z")
[This one](http://www.hagencartoons.com/cartoon650.gif) made me LOL out loud. It was just a bit unexpected in light of the other cartoons.
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