(Psssst… he’s a she)
take a walk on the wild side.
Did anyone notice the little girl hiding behind the lamppost?
I’m not falling for that.
That wasn’t the question; you’ve ignore the word “or”. If it was written as two questions they would be “How is acting like a stereotype funny?” and “How is acting like a stereotype ridiculing the stereotype?”
Comedians can explain why something is funny, but that’s part of their job. I realize it’s not part of your job to do this, but I thought I’d try and understand what you found funny about this video.
I’m able to explain why I don’t find it funny. I think it’s odd that you can’t, or think that you can’t, explain why you do find it funny.
Same.
I never bet with ladies. They tend to take advantage.
See, I thought the cops shooting into the air was stupid. I’d have edited that out. “There’s the little girl”, cops all laugh, walk to their cars and quietly drive off. Man left standing by car, still trembling.
In what ways do you feel let’s go down to the quarry and throw stuff down there?
I thought it was funny. I took it as ridiculing police abuse of power. The driving away shooting into the air like cowboys cinched it for me. YMMV, obviously.
No laugh here, in part because I saw the punchline coming down Main Street.
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I laughed.
I didn’t.
“Each to his own,” said the old lady as she kissed the cow.
Do you say it’s punching down because the powerful cops are ridiculing the man?
I wonder if this is the difference between those who find it funny and those who don’t. People who aren’t amused see it as a cruel joke played by the cops, and wonder how anyone can laugh at that. But the rest of us aren’t laughing at the cops’ joke; we are laughing at the absurdity of cops behaving in such a ridiculous manner.
This would have worked perfectly as a scene in Superbad with the two kawazy kops.
The entire gag is people in a position of power abusing their power to amuse themselves. That’s punching down. The police are the antagonists, the motorist is the protagonist that we identify with. If this happened to you, would you be amused?
The concept of police abusing their authority and threatening to kill someone isn’t ridiculous or absurd, IMO; there is now plenty of recent video showing police doing just that. Throwing in “doing it just for their own amusement” doesn’t add any humor to that, it just reinforces the negative power dynamic.
Or Super Troopers.
I didn’t find the skit funny. The tone was all wrong for the joke they were making. It was too well-produced to have that tone married with that joke. I would say it was interesting and even “arty”, in its surrealism and the way it created discomfort in the viewer. But then the cops shooting in the air as they drove off was such a tonal whipsnap (to something closer to what it should have been at the start to be funny), it showed that the director simply had no clue as to how to manage the tone of the piece.
Judd Apatow or the Broken Lizard crew would have nailed the joke, because it would have been at least a little funny from the start. Almost any random Youtuber/Viner would have nailed the joke, because of the irony inherent in such amateur productions.
And come to think of it, Louis CK would have nailed the joke in a dark way, because the cops wouldn’t have turned into cartoons at the end, and the humor would be about just how horribly uncomfortable we are that such absurdist cruelty somehow touches too closely to reality. A bit like in his episode “Bully”.
Read all the comments before watching the video.
I was expecting a little girl to pop out of the car, mow down all the cops with a machine gun, and speed away.
Now that would’ve actually been funny.