Musical comedy? Admittedly, I’ve seen few comedians who use a instrument as a prop be particularly funny. But on the other hand, I consider “Weird Al” in that genre, as well as Tom Leher, the comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan, the songs in Monty Python, etc.
Monty Python, except maybe the fish-slapping dance.
Dead baby jokes - just not funny. Even though I’m not crazy about babies.
Maybe this is what people mean by awkward comedy, but I’ll call it insult comedy, ala Don Rickles. I don’t get it.
FairyChatMom, ditto the “smart kids, idiot adults” scenario.
I’ll add another vote against scatological humor.
Again, please avoid making this about specific comedians or groups. Python was not a genre - they were in the same genre as the Goons. Also, they covered a number of different genres of comedy.
Forgot about that one. I almost stopped watching The Office after the first two episodes because it was SOOO awkward. (I was told that it would get less awkward, I’m glad I stuck with it.)
Oh man, I wish I had thought of that for my OP. Any situation comedy featuring pre-teens mouthing smart-alec lines put in their mouths by the writers. It’s so unnecessary, as kids acting like themselves can be howlingly funny.
Romantic comedies in general leave me cold. There’s one or two exceptions.
Comedy relying on crossdressing does nothing for me.
One genre of comedy that’s gone that was very popular was dialect comedy (i.e. the Chico Marx routine) Too UnPC now.
On the other hand, I like well done slapstick.
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Most of Monty Python, except maybe the fish-slapping dance.
I can’t think of any comedians who do them, but: dead baby jokes. Just not funny, even though I’m not crazy about babies.
Gender and relationship comedy - just LAME.
Yeah. Or not even dumb adult. Just a kid saying things that no real kid would say, using big words. Or scenarios where adults are trying to talk around something like sex and then the kid says something that reveals how precocious and well versed they are and the adults just gape. Ugh.
The stuff that’s just not funny, and that can come in many different guises, be it stand-up, visual, satirical, whatever. I definitely can’t pick a category off the top of my head which I always find unamusing.
Not funny - bathroom humor, most “blue” jokes (I’m not a prude, just don’t think they are funny), the Git Er Done guy. Also racial jokes
Funny - I like and make puns
“Dead baby” jokes any any jokes that rely on shock value.
Bathroom humor. Fart jokes. I just find those sorts of things irritating, in or out of humor.
Cross dressing. I see a man in a dress, my reaction isn’t “That’s funny !”, it’s “That looks really bad on him”. I’ve not offended or anything, just bored.
Watermelon and fried chicken jokes about black people ( fortunately quite rare these days, at least among people I deal with ); as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, that never made any sense to me even as insults. Black people eat fried chicken ? How . . . terrible of them. :rolleyes:
Tim Allen. His birthname is the funniest thing about him.
Larry David. Only reason to laugh at this man would be in a sort of Pavlovian response to his accent.
Dudley Moore. He could even unfunnify Peter Cook, and that’s goin’ some.
Slapstick doesn’t do it for me, either. I’ve never been able to sit through more than a minute of 3 Stooges-esque stuff.
I wonder, how would you classify stuff like old Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis routines? Because that stuff puts me to sleep.
I don’t get practical jokes. How is it funny to make a fool out of someone else? I’ve never understood that, or ‘pranking’.
Humiliation. I find nothing funny about humiliation.
Infantile men: men will never be more than over-sized eight-year olds but women still fall for them. (Note: Tom Hanks in “Big” is not what I mean.)
I really hated “The King of Queens”, but I love “Family Guy”.
In-jokes.
Cringe comedy. Where some buffoon is stuck in a mildly socially awkward situation (like, they forgot to buy a birthday present) which serves as a Maguffin for the buffoon to go to ludicrous lengths to avoid the consequences of the problem/attempt to solve the problem. It depends for such success as it has on our shared fear of embarrassment arising out of the original situation, but the far greater embarrassment generated by the attempt at avoidance/resolution usually drags me out of the joke.
As always, there are exceptions to every rule. Fawlty works for me big time. Lucy most assuredly does not. Go figure.
Insult comics. Especially “Roast” comedy. I have never seen it done in a way I find funny.
Sorry, I meant comedians. In the middle of a standup act, they bust out a guitar and think they’re funny, but it just isn’t so.