A coworker just came up to me and started a conversation with “You’ve got to hear this, it’s the funniest thing ever…”. She then proceeded to tell a story that, while rather humorous, wasn’t the funniest thing I had ever heard. But it did start me thinking, “what is ‘the funniest thing ever’?”
I don’t have an answer yet, and I’m reasonably sure that we will not reach a consensus on this. I’m not even sure exactly what the question means.
Is it the one thing that still makes people laugh even after a very long period of time?
Is it the one thing that was more funny than anything else at the time it happened?
It apparently is not the Three Stooges, according to every single woman I know.
I understand might be"Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer?
Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!",but I don’t speak German (luckily for me).
So, Dopers, what is “the funniest thing ever”?
(and congratulations to me for my first OP!)
humor is often the result of unexpected results which is why an old joke just doesnt seem as funny as the first time you hear it.
The funniest thing I have seen recently was a guy screwing around with an old toilet seat. He held it up and opened the lid, then stuck his face through it and while he was mugging for the rest of the people in the room the lid came down smashing his fingers and nearly breaking his nose.
Funniest ever? No. But it is the funniest thing I have seen in awhile
I think a man getting hit in the groin is always good for a laugh. It also translates into other languages well.
It doesn’t seem as funny to women though.
And when its unexpected, like a guy hitting a golf ball that bounces off a tree at 100 MPH or when the perp is doing something stupid, like sliding down a 30 foot long railing on a skateboard, and it gets even funnier.
I’d say the black knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said “God was my co-pilot, but then we crashed into the mountians and I had to eat him”, which was definately the funniest thing ever at the time.
A man being hit in the groin is hilarious … my friend has a rottweiler dog that’s very adept at headbutting men’s crotches - reduces everyone to tears everytime
A little background first.
I was a teenager growing up in a fairly bad neighborhood in chicago during the 80’s. The guys we knew were all Puerto Rican gangbangers & hoodlums, mostly harmless, but always had the “show” going on. They wore those baggies and dago tee’s and All Star gym shoes, big fluffy afro’s and walked that pimpdaddy-pigeon-walk thing with the head kinda bobbing forward with each step.
My sister was going out with one of the older guys named “Woe”. Woe was the coolest of the cool, naturally (at least to himself and all the younger guys).
Woe went with us to the lake one day.
On the way home (we were riding the Chicago elevated system) we went to get off the train, of course, ladies first…
We start to step off (the three girls)
Woe follows us, head bobbing
Doors close
We hear this strange uuuurrrck noise and turn around
Woe is trapped in the door, with just his head outside and as he’s desperately swiveling his head back and forth, eyes bugging, looking for the conductor, the door continues to slam-slam in from each side as it tries to completely close.
And when it’s an outtakes show that starts with old people on dancefloor, man walking backwards at poolside or stupid people standing on plastic chairs or flimsy tables.
You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. ‘Kirsty’s home videos’? News: They are not funny. Stop showing them. Stop accepting them. Send them back with big red sticker affixed: NOT FUNNY!
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen in a movie was in “WarGames” where the boy and girl are in biology class together, and the teacher says “We were talking about asexual reproduction. Who first came up with the idea of reproduction without sex?” and one of the kids, I forget which, says “Your wife”.
Nope, you’re wrong. These are funny. Very funny Or at least they could be, if THE FUCKING NARRATOR WOULD JUST STFU AND TRUST THE COMEDY!!! God, it drives me nuts! A clip of a guy trying to jump a pool and not making it is amusing! Dub Bob Saget or one of these other idiot’s voices over it going "doh, de doh, think I’ll jump the pool now"and it becomes excrutiating to watch. Also, somebody just flat out needs to shoot Matt Gallant, look at the look in his eyes, he’s begging you to put him out of his misery, and we need to put him out of ours.
I was going to bring up the dog riding monkey as soon as monkeys were brought up. Thank You mangomerlot!
I don’t think I have ever laughed as hard in my life as I did after a couple beers and a marathon of Family Guy. And, coincidentally, my favorite character is the mean monky always threatening to kill Chris.
Um, well, Jack Handy said something like "The funniest think to a shark has got to be a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because, where does he think he’s going?"
