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Why do people laugh at broad comedy?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Dick Whitman, Sep 25, 2011.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Adam Sandler's comedy is way smarter than people give him credit for. I think he ruins it with the fart jokes and so forth, but in between, there's some funny stuff.
     
  2. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    You sure are an arrogant douche.
     
  3. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I'm glad you were the first to come up with that nugget.

    It just means a little more coming from you.
     
  4. Uncle.Ruckus

    Uncle.Ruckus Guest

    And then there's Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star, which is pulling the coveted Zero Percent at Rotten Tomatoes.

    And I'm sure his upcoming Jack and Jill won't fare much better. Adam Sandler playing his own twin sister? SOLD! Sandler, you genius, you've done it again!
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I'm thinking of moments like the end of "Happy Gilmour" when Carl Weathers and Abe Lincoln are waving at him from the clouds.
     
  6. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    I only have a quarter brain so I do not understand this.
     
  7. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    I like all those CBS shows, so I have only an eighth of a brain.
     
  8. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I guess Dick's standard question of "why does it have to bother old people if I pay attention to advanced stats in baseball" takes on a different form when anyone decides to consume TV in a different way.

    Anyway, I'm not crazy about those CBS procedurals, but they do seem to have a pretty high RAR (Ratings Above Replacement) and OPS+ (Offensive Puerile Stereotyping). So basically I have proof that those shows are better, it's all in the numbers.
     
  9. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    I await the Bill James Television Abstract
     
  10. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Well done
     
  11. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I'll take offense to that. NCIS is a great show. CSI has taken a colossal dropoff since Peterson left. Criminal Minds is one of the darkest shows ever on network TV. I stopped watching after I had kids, but it was a great show for the first few seasons.
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It doesn't bother me so much as mystify me that someone would find "Spongeboob Sweatpants" or Dwight Schrute throwing a phone at somebody funny.
     
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