Funny shows you don't find funny?
Funny shows you don't find funny?
#1Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:26am
Are there any shows which are meant to be funny, but you just don't get, or don't find funny at all?
One of mine is Next to Normal, just don't get the whole rockstar thing, and everyone laughs so much at that, but i just don't find it that funny.
What are yours?
#2re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:31amAvenue Q. I think I actually laughed out loud just twice. Anyone who knows me IRL knows (as one friend put it) that I'm a slutty laugher, but I couldn't get into Avenue Q. I even saw it twice to be sure.
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#2re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:57am
The 39 Steps. I thought it was 'cute' and a very well acted show, but I'm just not into that kind of humor.
Sure, I laughed at a few things. But mostly, I pretended.
#3re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:02amIf we're talking things that were meant to be funny, not just things other people find funny...Young Frankenstein. I laughed maybe twice, both times at Andrea Martin.
#4re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:05amBoeing Boeing. I have never had so many eye rolls during any one show.
#5re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:17am
You're Welcome, America: A Final Night With George W. Bush
I think it was supposed to be funny.
#6re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:18amYoung Frankestein...
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#7re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:41amCurtains. Didn't laugh once.
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#8re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:48amAh yes. Forgot about Curtains. What does that say?
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#10re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 6:28am
Tale of the Allergist's Wife
I found both 39 Steps and Boeing B. KIND of cute and funny, but not hugely funny. Coincidentally I was able to see each in both New York and London and I felt the same way after each city.
#10re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 6:45am
Most recent production of Godot.
Despite outstanding performances and eliciting a few genuine laughs, for the most part I found it about as funny as hot needles in the eyes.
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#11re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 6:48am"The 39 Steps," "Avenue Q," "The Drowsy Chaperone," "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Shrek," "9 to 5," "November," "Dame Edna," Sandra Bernhard, "The Norman Conquests," "The Play What I Wrote," "How's the World Treating You?," "Laughter on the 23rd Floor."
#12re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:19am
TITLE OF SHOW.
...rename it to: Tale of Sh** 
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#13re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:57amThe excruciating hour and 45 minutes of THE NORMAN CONQUESTS that I was able to stand before I just had to get the hell out of that theatre. All the hilarity of concentration camp footage.
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#14re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:23amBOEING BOEING - All that physical shtick was done so much better by John Ritter in Three's Company.
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#15re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:35am"The Producers" Didn't like the movie, didn't like the musical. Just not funny to me.
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#16re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:59amI L-O-V-E Hairspray. As a whole, I think it is an excellent show...but I only laughed out loud 3 or 4 times. It really isn't that funny.
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#17re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 10:54amThe Producers. One of the most unfunny, painfully excruciating evenings ever spent at the theater. 2 hours and 45 minutes of Nathan Lane hamming it up while Matthew Broderick sheepishly looks on trying to be the "straight man" to a house full of people determined to make the $300 they spent on each ticket worth the price, all the while listening to a score that can burn in hell, does not make for an enjoyable theatrical experience.
#19re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 11:06amI would have to agree with Spamalot and Young Frankenstein. Both produced more eye rolls than laughs.
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#20re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 11:12amI would agree with The Producers and Curtains.
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#21re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 11:14am
The 39 Steps was one of the biggest let downs ever.
Laughed once.
Roscoe
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#22re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 11:30amI thought I was the only one who hated 39 STEPS. Thank God I'm not alone. What a waste of time and props.
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#23re: Funny shows you don't find funny?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 11:57am
I'm going to have to agree with The Producers. Just ... was not funny or enjoyable to me at all.
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Updated On: 8/3/09 at 11:57 AM
