The 500 lb Gorilla Gets Eaten By a Mouse

[Dr Legostar]

Catwoman

[Jim North]

I am disappointed that she doesn't have two separate pieces for her chest.

[Terotrous]

No, I meant Catwoman, I do often mix stuff from those two, which is surprising since their output is so different.

Oh, I thought since Lego mentioned Spider Man that you wanted the Spider-Man version of Catwoman.

[McDuffies]

Meh, it's only superheroes.

Catwoman

She even has a "tough girl" facial expression.

[Dr Legostar]

Meh, it's only superheroes.

Catwoman

She even has a "tough girl" facial expression.

yup, cause she's a tough girl.

[McDuffies]

Tough lego... huh huh huh

[Dr Legostar]

Tough lego... huh huh huh

your comedy always astounds me.

[Jim North]

This must be one of those Serbian things, kind of like how the French are the only ones that find Jerry Lewis and any mime other than Red Skelton amusing.

[Dr Legostar]

This must be one of those Serbian things, kind of like how the French are the only ones that find Jerry Lewis and any mime other than Red Skelton amusing.

i said it astounded me. I didn't say that was a good thing.

[McDuffies]

I find Jerry Lewis pretty funny, and Mimes too if they're good at what they do. Not liking them must be an American thing.
What I don't get is three Stooges. What kind of space/time continuum paradox made people think they're funny?

[Dr Legostar]

I find Jerry Lewis pretty funny, and Mimes too if they're good at what they do. Not liking them must be an American thing. weirdos

It's also an Ankh-Morkporkian thing.

[Jim North]

I find Jerry Lewis pretty funny, and Mimes too if they're good at what they do. Not liking them must be an American thing.

Or you're secretly French, Frenchy McFrencherson.

What I don't get is three Stooges. What kind of space/time continuum paradox made people think they're funny?

A world in which poking someone else in the eyes isn't the height of comedy is a world I don't wanna be a part of.

[McDuffies]

Or you're secretly French, Frenchy McFrencherson.

To be fair, a matter of respecting Jerry's work is more a matter of being a film buff, historical heritage of new wave, auteur theory. Case in point, I think highly of films that he directed but those that he didn't direct were never particularly good.

A world in which poking someone else in the eyes isn't the height of comedy is a world I don't wanna be a part of.

No, seriously, why were they so popular? It's not that I don't appreciate violent slapstick, it's just that I think they really sucked at performing it. People say that they were highly coordinated team that performed complicated routines, but I never see any of that coordination, it's as coordinated as when someone plays a guitar for the first time - wait 30 seconds till he finds the next chord.

[Jim North]

To be fair, a matter of respecting Jerry's work is more a matter of being a film buff, historical heritage of new wave, auteur theory. Case in point, I think highly of films that he directed but those that he didn't direct were never particularly good.

Sorry, dude, all I hear is ribbit noises.

No, seriously, why were they so popular?

For a serious answer, you'll have to look to someone else. I'm not exactly enamored with the Three Stooges. I mean, they're okay, but I don't spend my weekends watching 3S marathons or anything.

[Kevin R Brown]

See, when you get to *supporting*, I completely disagree. A lot of people help from the bottom of their hearts, and freakin' power to them. A lot of people help because of guilt, or to show off. Celebrities pledge millions to some cause, show up, smile, hand off a giant novelty cheque. Whoops, papers say I'm sounding racist. OH HEY, LOOK, LOOK, HEY, GUYS, LOOK, LOOK AT ME, I JUST DONATED THREE MILLION TO A MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATION! I AM SO HUMANITARIAN, AND A FIRM BELIEVER IN EQUALITY. I wouldn't bring this up, but the conversation is aimed at celebrity charity. Millions always help, I just really scrutinize the motive when its large sums like that.

...Well, that seems like an awful lot of empty assertion.

Do you have anything to back this up with? Which celebrities do that? How do you intend to demonstrate that they simply did it 'as a novelty'? And why do you suddenly find the motive to be suspect when it's large sums being donated?

I mean, it's easy enough to criticize (particularly when nobody bothers to press you for evidence of misconduct for the persons you want to cast aspersions on) and appeal to hearsay if that's what you've got to do to feel better about yourself, but I can't say I'm a big fan of anyone who pisses on the generosity of others while sitting on their computer and drawing cartoons all day.

[Phact0rri]

No, seriously, why were they so popular? It's not that I don't appreciate violent slapstick, it's just that I think they really sucked at performing it. People say that they were highly coordinated team that performed complicated routines, but I never see any of that coordination, it's as coordinated as when someone plays a guitar for the first time - wait 30 seconds till he finds the next chord.

They were very shocking in the 20-30's, MCD. You didn't see that sort of crazy violence in comedy in that time period. Its important to mention they were also very controversial at the time which of course tends to lead more popularity. Also they were quite a bit more popular in the states than anywhere else, as The Marx brothers "higher-brow" version tended to be likened much better globally than the Stooges.

I think that watching it today, its very much hard to grasp the ways of their celebrity. But in much the same way will Family guy be funny a hundred years from now?

[McDuffies]

Sorry, dude, all I hear is ribbit noises.

I guess you don't know about film as much as I do.

They were very shocking in the 20-30's, MCD. You didn't see that sort of crazy violence in comedy in that time period. Its important to mention they were also very controversial at the time which of course tends to lead more popularity. Also they were quite a bit more popular in the states than anywhere else, as The Marx brothers "higher-brow" version tended to be likened much better globally than the Stooges.

That's one thing I wonder, Marxs, Lloyd, Keaton, were all controversial as well, and Stooges just don't measure up to any of them when it came to complexity or even pure performing skill. Controverse ages pretty fast and if that was the main asset of Stooges, then that answers my question, I guess.

Jerry Lewis is now a running joke at how only French love him and stuff, but America has manufactured tons of much worse comedians who were all rather popular at the time. I mean, Jim Carrey, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, Pauly Shore, with that wealth of cultural heritage why is Jerry Lewis the butt of the jokes? He's much better than any of these assholes who aren't popular in France.
Not that French don't have Christian Clavier and many other annoying and unfunny comedians. But that stereotype just doesn't hold the water.

I think that watching it today, its very much hard to grasp the ways of their celebrity. But in much the same way will Family guy be funny a hundred years from now?

Family Guy is I guess bad example since so many people think that it's not funny today.

[Phact0rri]

Family Guy is I guess bad example since so many people think that it's not funny today.

Don't let kirb or Rock hear you say such things. I'm still mending from when I mentioned it.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Family Guy reruns will stop being funny when the references they make are no longer topical.

Maybe topical isn't the best word, but I think you catch my drift.

I feel like it will be something one would see on VH1's eventual "I love the '00s." (wait did they make that already in like 2007 even though the decade wasn't over yet? i feel like they did but anyway) I think it kind of follows the lines of other comedies being discussed, in that they aren't side-splittingly hilarious any more, but they once were because it was a novel thing at the time, as has been said.

Not that Family Guy was the first thing ever to use the kind of comedy it implements, but I would say it's probably the first thing to have such bountiful success and popularity in doing so.

Maybe I'm wrong though. I dunno.


(on another note- I enjoy most of the people/acts mentioned on this page of the thread so far. I think I may clinically be diagnosed as Easily Amused)

[Bustertheclown]

Family Guy reruns will stop being funny when the references they make are no longer topical...

Not that Family Guy was the first thing ever to use the kind of comedy it implements, but I would say it's probably the first thing to have such bountiful success and popularity in doing so.

Family Guy and Looney Toons aren't really all that dissimilar. I'm not saying that Family Guy will have the staying power of the old Termite Terrace fare-- Family Guy certainly does rely on non sequitur humor quite a lot-- but the old Warner Brothers' cartoons were full of non sequitur and slapstick, as well as topical humor and pop culture references of the time, references which are pretty obscure these days. Yet, Looney Toons still manages to be funny for other reasons, and it was certainly wildly successful when it had done so.