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sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
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Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Monte Python, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey, You Can't Take It With You, Harold Lloyd, George Carlin, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Aristocrats, The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel, The Jack Benny Show, Carol Burnett, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, early SNL, It Happened One Night, Ernst Lubitch, Red Skelton, Danny Kaye, Harvey, Preston Sturges, I Married A Witch, His Girl Friday, Annie Hall, Sleeper, W C Fields, Mae West, Big, Grand Budapest Hotel, Beetlejuice, La Cage aux Folies, The In-Laws, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Mouse That Roared, Good Morning Vietnam, M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Galaxy Quest, Harold And Maude, Arsenic and Old Lace, There's Something About Mary, Borat, Elf, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, A Fish Called Wanda, The Producers, What We Do In The Shadows, The Marx Brothers, Adam's Rib, The Philadelphia Story, Shop Around The Corner, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Shaun Of The Dead, The Thin Man, Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, Airplane, Night At The Museum, and many, many more.
 
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alaskanpiper

Enabler in Chief
May 23, 2019
9,449
44,135
Alaska
The Big Lebowski, Arrested Development, Trailer Park Boys, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Monty Python, Mike Birbiglia, Bill Burr, George Carlin, Louis C.K., Parks and Recreation, The Letdown, Mrs. Maisel, Letterkenny, Crashing, and much more I can’t pull off the top.
 

dino

Lifer
Jul 9, 2011
2,113
15,688
Chicago
Sable pretty much covered it for me. Bravo!
But, here's two Brit shows, not yet mentioned, that always made me wet m' knickers,
Mrs. Brown's Boys and A Bit Of Fry And Laurie
 
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workman

Lifer
Jan 5, 2018
2,794
4,232
The Faroe Islands
Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Monte Python, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey, You Can't Take It With You, Harold Lloyd, George Carlin, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Aristocrats, The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel, The Jack Benny Show, Carol Burnett, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, early SNL, It Happened One Night, Ernst Lubitch, Red Skelton, Danny Kaye, Harvey, Preston Sturges, I Married A Witch, His Girl Friday, Annie Hall, Sleeper, W C Fields, Mae West, Big, Grand Budapest Hotel, Beetlejuice, La Cage aux Folies, The In-Laws, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Mouse That Roared, Good Morning Vietnam, M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Galaxy Quest, Harold And Maude, Arsenic and Old Lace, There's Something About Mary, Borat, Elf, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, A Fish Called Wanda, The Producers, What We Do In The Shadows, The Marx Brothers, Adam's Rib, The Philadelphia Story, Shop Around The Corner, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Shaun Of The Dead, The Thin Man, Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, Airplane, Night At The Museum, and many, many more.
You are easily amused, yes?
 

cosmicfolklore

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Staff member
Aug 9, 2013
35,819
84,563
Between the Heart of Alabama and Hot Springs NC
SNL, I just never understood it. In the 70's and 80's, I just watched it like I would a foreign film with no subtitles... why is everyone laughing? It was like you had to be on a special drug that makes it funny or something. Fat man smashes counter top with samurai sword... I don't get it.

Curb Your Enthusiasm... I want to like Larry David, but he won't let me. I can only watch it while chewing aluminum foil or digging my fingernails into a chalkboard.

Charlie Chaplin, makes me smile, but not laugh.

Three Stooges... very predictable stuff. I mean, who didn't see getting a crab claw up his nose coming?

The most I have ever laughed in my entire life was watching Monty Python with my best friend, and "How to Defend Yourself against Fresh Fruit." It was because the gag got a hook into us, and then they kept pulling at it... but sir, what if he has two bananas?... What if he has a pointy stick? pure genius.

but Steven Martin... My dad was concerned for years that I was becoming too obsessed with Martin. In Jr High, I would wear a white suit to school and it was rare to find me for even a moment my whole 14th year of being without an arrow through my head.
 

warren

Lifer
Sep 13, 2013
12,462
19,010
Foothills of the Chugach Range, AK
I know he viewed himself as a serious actor but, Marlon Brando could always get a laugh out of me when he was emoting as only he could do. Jerry Van Dyke was a great standup.

Of today's funny people, Tim Allen still resonates. I'm far too old and "unhip" for most of today's comedians and comediennes to reach my funny bone. Even as a youth I had trouble with Sahl and those similar ... I wasn't "hip" back then either I guess.
 
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sumusfumus

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 20, 2017
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The Three Stooges. My dad and I used to watch them together when I was a kid. I still occasionally watch them and they're as funny to me now as they were then.
Watched them as a kid....and watch them now. Hilarious. My mother called me an idiot when I watched...she was right.
 
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