Classic Comedy: Was It Ever Funny? - US comedy doesn't hold up?

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In addendum to my previous comment, upon reflection, old """comedy""" was also extremely propagandistic, using the guise of comedy to spread kikery. I cite 3 examples from old ""classic"" Jewish movies Blazing Flaming Saddles, Animal House, and Airplane.

Flaming Saddles (spawned from Melvin Kavinsky's dirty semitic mind) created a wannabe german woman just to have her fuck a nigger, and of course comment on his huge dick, what "comedy". The jewish creator of Animal House crafted an entire scene dedicated to niggers basically cucking and potentially date raping the cast's dates, the "white" men fleeing and leaving. And Airplane's heebic writers made a really sick moment where they have a little white girl talk about "preferring black men".

This shit was not subtle, it was incessant. The 1960s really was the start of hollyjew's blatant semitism kicking into high gear.
 
america created "the room" 100% the greatest comedy made

america wins again suck our dick britain if we played that gay sport grasshopper or something we'd beat your ass at it too
 
The Mighty Banth dijo:
Fraser holds up since the humor is based on the main character's faults rather than popular culture. The references that do appear in the show tend towards classical books, music, and psychology so it is largely timeless.
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Frasier, Friends, and Seinfeld were like juggernauts.

Those shows are like museum exhibits now, but you have to understand the '90s landscape. Tonight on The Nanny: Maxwell takes a boner pill by mistake! Oops my turkey exploded in the oven! Wow, did you hear Cher got plastic surgery? Haha, what if the doctor’s name rhymed with Kevorkian? Then Mark McGwire shows up in full Cardinals gear to "fix the satellite dish" and the studio audience absolutely loses it like they've just seen Carlin's ghost.
 
Comedy is subjective. That's why American comedies tend to not do very well outside America. Just look at the world wide box office results for any comedy you can think of.

Then there's generational differences. Some kids can still laugh at the 3 Stooges and some just don't have any interest. Even with movies and shows that are in color and aren't so rooted to the culture of their time (like say Animal House) it still depends on the person.

There's that Freaks and Geeks episode where a guy takes his date to see the Steve Martin classic The Jerk and the chick is just not into it. It's like that. Comedy is almost like a secret language.
 
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There are lots of good comedies already listed here but I'll add some new examples I also like.

Musician parodies can be great sometimes. Julie Brown used to be in this short-lived sketch comedy called The Edge but she also did a special that parodies Madonna:


Also, 30 Rock is one of my favorite sitcoms and Jenna Maroney is probably my favorite character though it's difficult to choose:


Absolutely Fabulous is my favorite British sitcom though they've made many other excellent ones across the pond:

 
TaimuRadiu dijo:
In Living Color? In Living Color.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=95xajw0JuWM
While I'm at it here's SNL ripping NBC for cancelling Star Trek, not even ten years after it was cancelled. (Also probably ripping on William Shatner too, since Aykroyd and Belushi were huge fucking nerds.) I can't help but think that one Voyager episode where they encounter a truck in space is a reference to this.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0xOgFDXFg
William Shatner's counterattack. I can't find the full clip rn.


Unrelated but who cares.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SpPgavT5am4
While I'm at it have some Spock on Carol Burnett, from when TOS was still running.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yaKpbaWR2pI
I guess Carol Burnett did a lot of these, one of the sketches included in this video is from a brief revival in 1992.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QEufeSh-GW4
I do like a lot of Carol Burnett but it may not be considered that funny now.
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That reminds me of this.

 
Regarding the subjectivity and cultural specificity of comedy: I had a friend growing up whose mom was straight off the boat from England. His overseas relatives sent him weekly copies of The Beano and The Dandy, which I read with the type of morbid fascination usually reserved for train wrecks. Having witnessed firsthand what passes for "humour" (sic) with British children, it's easy to see why limeys like OP grow up have a shit sense of humor that doesn't connect with most American comedy. These comics were apparently popular enough with limey children to survive for 80 years, but for an American kid like me they were just fascinatingly bad. Meanwhile a limey like OP might read our Sunday paper and wonder why our Dennis the Menace isn't terrorizing his metrosexual neighbors. (Was Walter the Softy ever confirmed to be gay?)

(Roger the Dodger and Desperate Dan were kind of funny. Everyone else was terrible. Ball Boy in particular was a total waste of ink.)

Was classic American comedy ever funny? You can listen to classic broadcasts and hear audiences laughing. Obviously someone thought it was funny at some point. It just doesn't all translate to funny to someone who grew up in a culture where Bananaman and the goddamn Bash Street Kids pass as comedy.

 
Shart Attack dijo:
Was classic American comedy ever funny?
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Comedy in this country is emergency triage, just like everything else. I read that The Three Stooges weren’t beloved because they were brilliant comedians, they were beloved because they were cheap. Like, economically. A guy getting poked in the eye was the only thing between a coal miner and complete psychic collapse.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug dijo:
I thought him being raised a poor Black boy in Mississippi was funny.
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tbh I have various sensible chuckles about The Jerk but I have more fun with my wife and I quoting it at each other
I'm more "ah, I see what you did there" for Steve Martin than really bellyfeeling him
 
Stab You in the Back dijo:
The first season of Cheers is like nothing else on television. The show's creators had a very specific vision of what they wanted the show to be, and got one season before it started flanderizing itself.
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I mean they basically made The Will they Wont They. And then they showed us in season two why you don't have the Will they Wont they get together before the end. But season 3 gave us Frasier so I can't complain too much
 
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