29th June 2007, 10:05 AM
Eh... I dunno, I try to watch something like History of the World and I just groan through every joke... I mean I'd try not to sound cliche but "lame" is just the way I see it. It's the only word that I would use to describe it.
Some like it better, for my part, I'll pass on the puns and sight gags. Seriously, that's the sort of thing Disney's current crop of cartoons do all the time. Why would I suddenly enjoy it just because it's old live action?
Now Ren and Stimpy, THAT'S comedy.
I think that comedy, like technology, improves as mankind advances. Everything from the 50's is undeveloped primordial soup of comedy, a template from which today's great works can emerge (and our lackluster cash-ins can stink up the joint, but it can't all be good). The future will probably look back on the things we laughed at as uncultered and silly, and they would be right to! I bet their laughs will be greatly advanced!
Some like it better, for my part, I'll pass on the puns and sight gags. Seriously, that's the sort of thing Disney's current crop of cartoons do all the time. Why would I suddenly enjoy it just because it's old live action?
Now Ren and Stimpy, THAT'S comedy.
I think that comedy, like technology, improves as mankind advances. Everything from the 50's is undeveloped primordial soup of comedy, a template from which today's great works can emerge (and our lackluster cash-ins can stink up the joint, but it can't all be good). The future will probably look back on the things we laughed at as uncultered and silly, and they would be right to! I bet their laughs will be greatly advanced!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)