This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)

#26 | Back to Top05-06-2007 06:17:37 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I love British humour too (big fan of things like The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Green Wing), but I also love ridiculous-premise comedy (Ghostbusters), black comedy (Fight Club) and things like this. Completely random, unexpected, ridiculous tangents that somehow fit together in the end. Which is why I also love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

...and this is my current favourite sight-gag ever. I am a terrible person.


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#27 | Back to Top05-06-2007 06:27:45 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I like british humor too, but is not my favorite.

I guess i can't tell, i like different kinds of humor, from South Park to the Monty Pythons. It depends, but definitively black or grey humor is my very best.

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#28 | Back to Top05-06-2007 07:21:16 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Clarice wrote:

I love British humour too (big fan of things like The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Green Wing), but I also love ridiculous-premise comedy (Ghostbusters), black comedy (Fight Club) and things like this. Completely random, unexpected, ridiculous tangents that somehow fit together in the end. Which is why I also love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

...and this is my current favourite sight-gag ever. I am a terrible person.

Aaagh, Curb Your Enthusiasm makes my skin crawl.  I mean it's hilarious, but I can't watch it more than once a month.  Did you see the episode with the baptism?  That show goes something like *cringe* LOL *cringe* *cringe* LOL ROFL.


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#29 | Back to Top05-06-2007 08:57:47 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Stormcrow wrote:

Aaagh, Curb Your Enthusiasm makes my skin crawl.  I mean it's hilarious, but I can't watch it more than once a month.  Did you see the episode with the baptism?  That show goes something like *cringe* LOL *cringe* *cringe* LOL ROFL.

I don't think I've seen that one, although I know what you mean. There are days I can't watch it, or episodes that even though I laugh while watching it, I can't stop cringing either. I think it's half the attraction; I had the same attitude to The Office (the British version; I've never seen the US one). The Christmas specials, in particular, are brilliant, but they're awfully hard to watch because you just wish they'd stop it, it's awful and embarrassing and so much like real life that it's funny even when it shouldn't be. ^____^;;

Oh, and I forgot to mention one of my other favourite comedies was a hilariously surreal bit called Teachers. It was the random donkey, I tell you. Random donkey sightings make EVERYTHING hilarious. emot-keke


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#30 | Back to Top05-06-2007 12:11:11 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Stormcrow wrote:

Aaagh, Curb Your Enthusiasm makes my skin crawl.  I mean it's hilarious, but I can't watch it more than once a month.  Did you see the episode with the baptism?  That show goes something like *cringe* LOL *cringe* *cringe* LOL ROFL.

Holy shit, best summary of that series ever. I love it though, it's like a gorgeously orchestrated train wreck, you watch it with your heart in your throat knowing he's going to be a loudmouth oaf and make some massive unholy mess and oh god it's painful to watch but you can't not. He's such a stubborn jackass he'll start a war over a frickin' sandwich but from a safe distance you gotta kinda like him.


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#31 | Back to Top05-27-2007 01:34:26 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I like Monty Python, Terry Pratchett, Family Guy and ever new South Park sense of humour.

*But that's because Hamlet is hilarious!  I mean, how can you take that big pile of bodies at the end seriously?  But to me the funniest part is when Polonius buys it and actually says "Oh, I am slain!"  *

For me amusing is, when he asks his friends, did they come for funeral or wedding? "Very clever, food from this first event could be used on wedding" (Not exactly this words, but the same sense)

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#32 | Back to Top05-27-2007 06:51:44 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

dlaire wrote:

HAMLET COMEDY

If you've never seen "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", check it out.  It's awesome.


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#33 | Back to Top05-27-2007 07:06:35 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I will emot-smile

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#34 | Back to Top05-27-2007 11:43:10 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

My best friend, no seriously she cracks me up. Falling that funny songs like those written by Victoria wood. I like Jasper Carrot and Billy Connelly as well.
And the link below had me in stitches earlier this afternoon.

http://www.skippyslist.com/skippylist.html

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#35 | Back to Top05-27-2007 12:03:57 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I enjoy crazy random shit.  I also act that way.

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#36 | Back to Top05-27-2007 01:00:11 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Shy Kitsune wrote:

My best friend, no seriously she cracks me up. Falling that funny songs like those written by Victoria wood. I like Jasper Carrot and Billy Connelly as well.
And the link below had me in stitches earlier this afternoon.

http://www.skippyslist.com/skippylist.html

That's hilarious.  "Napalm sticks to kids" is *not* a motivational phrase, LOL

poptartpoptartpoptart for you, Kitsune!


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#37 | Back to Top05-27-2007 06:22:14 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

If you've seen My Hime then this will be extremely funny to you:

or even if you haven't....it's still pretty funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a89GfvQQDBo


Oh yeah....if you like Disney and the famous FBI Copywrite warning then watch this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bK8AZSYtPU

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#38 | Back to Top05-28-2007 08:19:41 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Everything.


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#39 | Back to Top05-28-2007 11:38:21 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

"The world's a funny place, you know,
But most of what goes on is rarely funny." -Chicago

But even if it makes me a dupe, I prefer a more optimistic outlook.


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#40 | Back to Top05-29-2007 02:10:08 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Quoting shows verbatum with others who can quote as well as you do, in or out of context, can culminate in a huge grin plastered across my face.

That, or inside jokes that refuse to die.

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#41 | Back to Top12-10-2008 12:24:18 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I love satire and surreal humor best. Shows like The Colbert Report never fail to crack me up.  Fart jokes also make me laugh when all else fails, but doesn't that apply to everybody? emot-smile


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#42 | Back to Top12-10-2008 01:58:11 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I'm a fan of dark humor, and random silly humor. I think American Psycho and Clueless sums it up pretty well.


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#43 | Back to Top12-10-2008 05:44:58 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Stormcrow wrote:

"The world's a funny place, you know,
But most of what goes on is rarely funny." -Chicago

But even if it makes me a dupe, I prefer a more optimistic outlook.

"The world is not beautiful,
and that, in a way, gives it a sort of beauty."  -Kino

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#44 | Back to Top12-10-2008 11:08:21 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Im a little insane so surreality makes lawl. that and and violence, not like CNN type violence, but Ninja scroll/Saw series type gore. Why does the human body contain 12 gallons of highly pressurized blood?school-chefschool-chefschool-chefschool-chef


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#45 | Back to Top12-11-2008 01:57:28 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Puns, satire, dark humor, deadpan, geeky in-jokes (Skippy's List, Mr. Welch's list), man getting hit in groin by football, etc. Practically anything, really.

In the end, though, nothing makes me ROFL like a well-executed non sequitur.

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#46 | Back to Top12-11-2008 04:35:09 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

I enjoy all sorts of humor, but satire, black humor and deadpan snarking are funniest to me. I found the most hilarious thing in HP as Snape's sarcastic, deadpan snarking. I would love to have a friend who does that. I am trying to cultivate a kind of ironic snarking with a smile myself because of my admiration. Snape is what got me into that kind of humor and I'll love my middle school friend forever for pushing me to read a book I'd looked down on because of it's popularity.


Deadpan snarking is in for me at the moment indeed.


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#47 | Back to Top12-11-2008 07:47:20 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Political humor always gets me, and I love cultural satire.

Terry Pratchett and Lemony Snicket are examples of the kind of humor I like.

I laugh at just about anything, but I usually don't like stupid or slapstick humor.


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#48 | Back to Top12-11-2008 09:43:55 PM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

If we're going to talk about Brit humor I'm gonna support Black Adder all the way.

For non-Brit stuff hmmm I guess I really like the movie L.A. Story. That's probably my favorite comedy.

Other than that I like a good stand up comedian.


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#49 | Back to Top12-12-2008 09:45:29 AM

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Re: What's funniest to you?

Dark black humor. Negativity. Doom. The world is ending. Pessimism at its funnest.
A clever satire or appreciative parody (something that knows & loves what it's making fun of).
Witty repertoire - like the pop-culture heavy exchanges so common to Buffy. And to a lesser extent, in Gilmore Girls.
Inappropriate humor. Lotsa sexual innuendo of every kind, as long as it's wittily clever (not obvious - obvious kills me ...that's the reason I don't like puns).
And to contradict my last statement...bad humor. As in MISTs and jokes so obvious that they become hilarious. Intentionally bad writing.

Hmm examples of my tastes:

Napoleon Dynamite - so wtf it's funny
Superstar - now that's dancing. And those people are sad. Sad=funny!
Parts of Monty Python movies (some parts annoy me intensely)/Parts of John Cleese (his repetition annoys me intensely)
Ellen's early standup comedy
French & Saunders standup comedy. Er some of the time.
Absolutely Fabulous - drugged out post-man so-selfish Patsy makes me rofl
Kath & Kim - Making fun of Australians. The national pastime.
Eddie Murphy's dragon in Mulan, and Ellen's fish in hmm that Disney movie about fish...
Kung Pow - the best Hong Kong action flick parody-dub ever
Seinfeld - pretty good one-liners. And Elaine=deliciously cruel
She's the Man - so cutely not like a man I enjoy it

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