The “fish slapping dance” from Monty Python.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
James Thurber, David Sedaris
The scene where Burt Reynolds glued a small dog to his hand in The Man Who Loved Women.
Kathleen Madigan
Forgot to mention The Kids in the Hall
Watched this on a plane and nearly died laughing.
David Brent in The Office is a brilliant comic creation.
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!”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.