General / Off-Topic I really need to laugh.

Avago Earo

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Avago Earo
Been on BBC i player, went through the comedy section, but nothing made me laugh. Went on YouTube; same. Anyone got any ideas? I used to find Dad's Army, The Young Ones, Not The Nine O Clock News, Steptoe And Son, Fawlty Towers, The Black Adder, Only Fools And Horses, Men Behaving Badly, I'm Alan Partridge, Man Stroke Woman, Blue Jam, Brass Eye, Spaced, Peep Show, The Office, Tramadol Nights, How Not To Live Your Life, funny (still do), but I can't find anything new that makes me really laugh. The nearest I get is 'oh, yeah, I get that joke', but there's no laughter in my belly.

I find I just look up old stuff to remind me of when I could laugh. Surely there's some new stuff out there? Have I gone beyond the humour line of which there is no return? I liked 'The Detectorists' but in a way that I don't mind Countryfile when I've got a hangover. 8/10 does countdown is okay, but that's laughing at other people laughing. Peope Just Do Nothing seems soul less and a gap filler for BBC on line. Man Down has it's moments, but I think he'd do better doing stand up.

Not Going Out was good until the Beeb thought they should get them married so they can politicise the nuclear family. The whole point of that comedy was sexual frustration. Now it's all about repairing old family wounds and highlighting male inadequacies, whilst hyping the patriarchy train. Like we needed any more patronising. Way to go BBC, no wonder the laughter is canned now.

Any suggestions?
 

Zak Gordon

Zak Gordon
Maybe your dying inside? ;) Jokes aside, what about the Big Bang Theory. As 'part' geek myself i love to laugh at my own flaws through that show. In the uk we seem to be in a 'transition' stage and not able to make great comedy any more? In fact we are not great at making much any more (too much 'celebrity' dancing/cooking etc).
 
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Flimley

Flimley
It’s all over I’m afraid Avago. One is not allowed to be “funny” anymore, that’s all in the past now. You will just have to force yourself to enjoy the new funny...... what ever that is. I stopped watching TV about eight years ago.

Flimley
 

lysan

lysan
It really depends on your type of humor...

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Anon Sin

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Hey OP; the BBC aka CNN-UK. Mainstream Media in general. Just go on YouTube (yeah i know it's insidious as ) and type in any one of those amazing shows you listed,they are all there and enjoy! o7
ps. add Father Ted,Keeping Up Appearances & One Foot in the Grave to your list.
 
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verminstar

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verminstar
Search out a new BBC comedy based in Northern Ireland in the 80s called 'Derry girls'...not sure if you guys get it over there what we get here but I can assure ye, its absolutely hilarious.

Failing that, search out another Northern Ireland comedy show called 'Give my head peace'...ye might find the humour hard to follow as its very much a satire of life here and makes fun of the tribal politics of ourselves. That show has ran fer decades and now do panto shows due to their popularity here, but much of their past stuff is just golden.

Failing that, just watch some Mrs Browns Boys...never fails to crack a wee smile.

One thing we do well is laugh at ourselves...Derry girls is by far the funniest Ive seen in a long time...expect a fair bit of bad language so its not fer the easily offended and all the actors are local so the thick accents are genuine ^
 
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Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
I would highly recommend Archer, from fairly recent. If cartoon form is fine by you(it's NOT kid friendly).

Also, some of the Youtube shows can give you a good laugh. Watch some Wisecrack channel. They specialize in movies and books. Their Earthling Cinema show provides interesting analysis, with a very witty and surreal humor sprinkled on top :)

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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
I'm loving Parks and Rec. It did make me laugh out loud a couple of times.
Though to be honest, if I'm down and need cheering up, I usually grab one of the Hill and Spencer movies or something with Pierre Richard from my VHS collection. They don't make films like that, anymore.
 

Arry

Arry
Humour that is meant for the public domain is dead. It was slowly murdered by political correctness and then cast aside, abandoned to rot, by those too weak to stand up for common sense. Soon all that will be left as acceptable humour, will be short sound bites, that ridicule men. As long as they are not about men of colour, or non-Christian believers and completely straight. Anything else, about anyone else, has been ladled as NOT funny and banned from the public domain.
 

hypervoodoo77

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Arry said:
Humour that is meant for the public domain is dead. It was slowly murdered by political correctness and then cast aside, abandoned to rot, by those too weak to stand up for common sense. Soon all that will be left as acceptable humour, will be short sound bites, that ridicule men. As long as they are not about men of colour, or non-Christian believers and completely straight. Anything else, about anyone else, has been ladled as NOT funny and banned from the public domain.
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More or less this.
 

jasonbarron

jasonbarron
Archer, naturally. And I watched Bright the other night and found myself roaring with laughter on multiple occasions, even though you wouldn't guess at "humor" from the previews. It sort of channeled action cop buddy flicks from the 80's & 90's like Lethal Weapon. I went into it expecting it to suck, and ended up really enjoying it.
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Renown

Renown
Not sure if you watched it originally and just didn't type out everything but add to the list, The Fast Show, Big Train, The IT Crowd, Father Ted (mentioned above), The Yes Minister/Prime Minister series, Black Books, Green Wing, Bottom, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The League of Gentlemen, Toast of London, Absolutely, Naked Video <--- anything there you have missed?


And of course if you liked Spaced look out for the new Simon Pegg Nick Frost series Truth Seekers, a horror comedy series "Made under their new banner Stolen Picture, the show will follow a three-person paranormal investigation team and each episode will focus on a different paranormal incident they investigate."
 
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jamieboo

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I know what you mean!
However, I discovered Key and Peele recently which, despite being a few years old now, had me laughing out loud several times.
 

Aasgard

Aasgard
Renown said:
The IT Crowd, Father Ted (mentioned above)
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Father Ted always makes me laugh. The absolute best has to be the episode entitled 'Hell'. 5-Stars!

Found The IT Crowd very recently and binge-watched it. Fantastic humour, makes me laugh out loud when travelling. 5-Stars!

Currently watching the US version of The Office. It's better than the UK version but it's humour is very different. 4-Stars so far.
 
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