# What cracks you up?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 8, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666 "2005-01-08T00:21:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/41 "2005-01-09T06:02:55Z")
The “fish slapping dance” from Monty Python.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/42 "2005-01-09T22:50:41Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> You’ve been one of my more favorite posters the past month and a half or so but I think I might have to start actively avoiding any thread you participate in now. Bob and Tom? I knew that they had to have fans because they’re nationally syndicated but I always hoped that Dopers wouldn’t’ve been included in their fan base.
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> Today is a very sad day. ☹
Oi now, none o’ that. Or rather, Aw dawg, why you gotta be like that?
For starters, Bob and Tom are local boys. They got their start in the area and come back to do a broadcast from a local country club not ten miles from where I live every year.
Also, they manage to be mildy vulgar and very funny vs. half the other shock jocks out there that just are vulgar to be vulgar and couldn’t find funny with a map.
They also have Heywood Banks, Rodney Carrington, etc. on very regularly. The comedians they feature on the show are almost alway good.
What can I say, they make me laugh. Don’t hate me for it. Hate me because I’m beautiful. 😛
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### Author:  [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/43 "2005-01-09T22:51:27Z")
Bill Hicks (proof that the good really do die young)
South Park
Scrubs
The Office
Kath & Kim
British Sketch Comedy
The Big Lebowski (for alot of reasons, but in particular the scene where they are disposing of Donnie’s ashes, and also when the cop throws the coffee mug at The Dude’s head)
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/44 "2005-01-10T01:08:39Z")
Lewis Black makes me laugh so hard that it hurts. Hands down, my favorite comedian.
Kevin James did a stand up routine on Comedy Central (something with the word “sweat” in the title, I believe) that had me laughing pretty hard throughout.
Jeff Dunbar, the ventriloquist with Peanut, the grumpy old guy and the Jalapeno… on a steeeeck also kills me.
But one of the most memorable incidents of me laughing hysterically at something came, at all times, when I was trying to train Dragon’s Naturally Speaking. They had a selection of excerpts you could read for the training. I chose a Dave Barry snipped, because, hey Dave is pretty funny. I have always enjoyed his stuff, but usually in a wry, chuckling sort of way. Anyway, I started to read this selection aloud, and a third of the way through it, I was laughing so hard I couldn’t even see straight, much less actually train the thing. I cannot for the life of me remember what the thing was called, but I do remember it somehow involving a squirrel, a burrito, and a microwave.
But most treasured for me are probably Douglas Adams, Calvin and Hobbes, and the Far Side. If you ever want to cheer me up, just pick one of those three and you’re guaranteed to succeed.
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### Author:  [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/45 "2005-01-10T01:33:24Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#):
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> Lewis Black makes me laugh so hard that it hurts. Hands down, my favorite comedian.
One time I was listening to him in the car and he was yelling, “the weather in this country is out of control! And nobody gives a shit!” and I started to choke on my gum. I’m laughing really hard right now just thinking about it. You know how he yells. Ha ha. I don’t know why, that caught me off guard. What a thing to say. I can’t explain why that is so funny to me, but it’s the way he says it.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/46 "2005-01-10T01:39:33Z")
Terry Pratchett books.
The early P.J. O’Rourke, particularly the stuff he did for _National Lampoon_.
_Plan Nine From Outer Space_ and _Robot Monster_, easily the two best bad movies of all time.
Most of Phil Foglio’s cartoon work.
ALL of the old Far Side cartoons, just about.
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/47 "2005-01-10T02:50:41Z")
James Thurber, David Sedaris
The scene where Burt Reynolds glued a small dog to his hand in _The Man Who Loved Women_.
Kathleen Madigan
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### Author:  [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/48 "2005-01-10T03:31:48Z")
Forgot to mention The Kids in the Hall
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### Author:  [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/49 "2005-01-10T04:02:16Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Jay and Silent Bob are comic gods.
Watched this on a plane and nearly died laughing.
David Brent in _The Office_ is a brilliant comic creation.
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### Author:  [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/50 "2005-01-10T04:05:58Z")
> [@TastesLikeBurning](#):
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> British Sketch Comedy
_Not the Nine O’Clock News_ (1979-1982) was very funny - streets ahead of _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ in my opinion.
One particularly skit in which they parodied a tyre commercial was pure genius.
“It’s not Starsky and Hutch, you know!”
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/51 "2005-01-10T06:17:11Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#):
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> Oi now, none o’ that. Or rather, Aw dawg, why you gotta be like that?
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> …
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> What can I say, they make me laugh. Don’t hate me for it. Hate me because I’m beautiful. 😛
To each their own, I suppose. I’d really have no major issue with them if they didn’t laugh harder at their own jokes than you do. Watching a comedian fight not to laugh at something hilarious he just said is one thing but giggling at every punchline makes me grit my teeth.
You’ve escaped my ignore list for now\*.
\*That was a joke. No warnings, please.
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### Author:  [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/52 "2005-01-10T06:53:41Z")
> [@jsc1953](#):
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> What book, movie, director, artist, magazine…have you found absolutely hysterical – gasping for breath, laugh-til-you-cry funny–through your life?
One word – FARTS! That always cracks me up! So I like Mel Brooks, Saturday Night Live, and the Farrelly Bros stuff like Dumb and Dumber. But I have to say that your list pretty much matches my taste also.
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### Author:  [@Zonyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zonyx)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/53 "2005-01-10T11:49:52Z")
Billy Connolly and the guys on “Whos line is it anyway?” crack me right up.
Also, when people say or do things that they didn’t mean to. I could spend hours looking through sites with wrongly written signs and the like.
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### Author:  [@Zonyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zonyx)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/54 "2005-01-10T11:53:52Z")
> [@TastesLikeBurning](#):
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> Bill Hicks (proof that the good really do die young)
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> South Park
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> Scrubs
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> The Office
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> Kath & Kim
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> British Sketch Comedy
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> The Big Lebowski (for alot of reasons, but in particular the scene where they are disposing of Donnie’s ashes, and also when the cop throws the coffee mug at The Dude’s head)
I’d have thought you of all people would have listed the simpsons. That’s where your name comes from is it not?
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### Author:  [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/55 "2005-01-10T12:02:40Z")
> [@Zonyx](#):
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> I’d have thought you of all people would have listed the simpsons. That’s where your name comes from is it not?
Yeah, that is true.
I do like The Simpsons, but just not enough to list them.
Ralph Wiggum though is full of good quotes.
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cracks-you-up/283666/56 "2005-01-10T18:01:38Z")
> [@uglybeech](#):
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> Dana Carvey as Tom Brokaw reading all possible upcoming news stories so he can spend the winter on vacation. (it was _senseless_)
Was it all possible stories, or just all possible Gerald Ford obituaries? (including gunned down during a liquor store holdup). That was classic. I’m giggling right now.
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