# "We all no that there's nothing funny about drunkedness" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041 "2004-06-07T02:55:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/21 "2004-06-07T12:16:07Z")
> [@Darkhold](#): > > I have to agree with the OP Drunkedness is a perfectly legitimized word. > > insert the obligatory it embiggens us all quote A noble spirit endrunkens the smallest man. that’s funny for so many reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/22 "2004-06-07T12:50:37Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > And everyone from the UK is sexually repressed with bad teeth. This I know. You’re going to have to explain the connection then. I don’t see it. The connection between drunks and bores is pretty straightforward. > [@duffer](#): > > _Arthur_ is frigging hilarious. Get a sense of humor man! Look! He’s drunk! Funny! He’s giving a lugubrious , tedious and repetitive monologue on “people today and the trouble with my family” Genius! Oops! He’s fallen down! Somebody call a doctor, I fear my sides have split with mirth! It’s comedic gold! Now he’s vomited all down his front! Aaaarg! Help me! I can’t breathe!! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/23 "2004-06-07T14:06:16Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Thanks for the link, I didn’t know he also did audio medium. If it’s even close to _Arthur_ ,(which I usually watch about once a month), I’m in for a treat. 🙂 Well, I wouldn’t expect it to be _exactly_ like Arthur in tone or content if I were you :). Or at all like Arthur, for that matter. And don’t forget _Not only… but also_, which was the TV show that made Moore and Cook famous, and _Beyond the Fringe_, the radio show that started their careers. Cook is simply the funniest man who ever drew breath, and coincidentally was a real alcoholic to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/24 "2004-06-07T16:05:22Z")
We all know that there’s nothing funny about falling off a cliff, or swallowing a stick of dynamite, or being hit by a sledgehammer or a falling anvil… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/25 "2004-06-07T16:05:50Z")
Drunks are pretty funny…provided you don’t have to take care of them or clean up after them. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/26 "2004-06-07T16:31:55Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > We all know that there’s nothing funny about falling off a cliff, or swallowing a stick of dynamite, or being hit by a sledgehammer or a falling anvil… Classic ---
**Author:** ![htns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@htns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/htns)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/27 "2004-06-07T16:41:00Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Honestly, I think I like “drunkedness.” I think it could carry connotations that “drunkenness” does not. Evening, occifer. 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/28 "2004-06-07T16:55:27Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > You’re going to have to explain the connection then. I don’t see it. > > The connection between drunks and bores is pretty straightforward. Really? You need an explanation? Perhaps you shouldn’t assert that you know the disposition and level of entertainment of EVERY DRUNK on EVERY OCCASION. My friend Joe is drop dead hilarious when he’s drunk. He tells great stories, is very affectionate, smiley and we have a great time. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/29 "2004-06-07T17:40:56Z")
Let’s see if I can remember any funny drunk stories . . . Once, at a baseball game, we witnessed a drunk who sat in the first row above a walkway. He had an enormous, lightweight inflatable baseball bat, about 6’ long. Every now and then he would bop one of the walkers over the head with it, exhibiting that deliberate, wobbly concentration that only a drunk can accomplish. The passerby would stop and glare at the guy, see that he was bombed, and move on. After awhile, all the crowd sitting in the seats up behind the drunk started watching the fun. Each time he would bop someone, the crowd would laugh uproariously at the poor boppee’s expression. Once, the drunk bopped a fisticuff-inclined tough guy, and the tough guy tried to grab the inflatable bat away. The drunk tossed it behind him, and the people cooperated by crowd-surfing the bat up several levels out of reach. Tough guy glared ferociously at the crowd, who all yelled derisively back at him. He moved on, crestfallen, accompanied by catcalls. Now, _that_ was a funny drunk. But a lot of the time, I agree with **Futile Gesture** – drunks can be crashing bores. And Charlie Chaplin did a _much_ funnier movie drunk than Dudley Moore. ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/30 "2004-06-07T18:11:36Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > Drunks are crashing bores and rarely funny in real life. This I know. > > Dudley Moore’s “Arthur” is **not** an exception to this rule. > > And there is no such word as “drunkedness”, the word is drunkenness. Damn, you need a drink! Lighten up! ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/31 "2004-06-07T18:29:48Z")
Drunks can be funny. I can be a funny drunk. In fact, I had a funny drunk experience the other night, though the same thing would have happened if I would have been sober, 'cuz I’m a clutz either way. We were grilling out at a friend’s house and we had all had a few drinks. My friend’s kid wanted me to chase him around the house, so I obliged. One of the times I came around the house, he had “stolen” my chair. So I went over and was going to sit on him (lightly, of course). Just at the moment I was going to sit on his lap, he tipped the chair over backward from laughing so hard and my ass hit the ground. He and I both laid their laughing for a while, and then I noticed that he’d scraped his elbow. We got him a Lilo Band-Aid and he was fine. My butt still hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/32 "2004-06-08T13:39:29Z")
Leonard Maltin is a known idiot. Possibly a Commie stooge. How he got the gig doing reviews for _Playboy_, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/33 "2004-06-08T21:34:27Z")
I have more fun watching other people get drunk. Especially in the SCA. Especially the time when our local camp drunk drank the equivalent of **5 bottles** of hard liquor over the period of a few hours and then became convinced he was Batman. He held his cloak open and made flying noises running all over our camp. Oh, and it’s funny as hell when the belly dancers fall into the fire pit but only when they get right back out again. 3rd degree burns are NOT cool! ---
**Author:** ![Notorious\_Nik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Notorious\_Nik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Notorious_Nik)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/34 "2004-06-08T23:16:17Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted a drink more in my life than I do right now. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041/35 "2004-06-08T23:45:54Z")
Oh, you probably have, at one time or another. You just don’t remember due to all the blackouts. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-no-that-theres-nothing-funny-about-drunkedness/249041.md?page=1)