Comments on: Jokes that get better with age

By: paul walter

paul walter — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Mr.Eyesore, most excellent!

By: Mr. Eyesore

Mr. Eyesore — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:51:01 +0000

Rush Limbaugh was mentioned in the comments on the Kony article…

Q. What’s the difference between the Hindenburg and Rush Limbaugh?
A. One’s a big Nazi gasbag and the other’s a dirigible.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:34:45 +0000

How could we forget Clarke and Doyle which reminds me of another really beaut thing from the eighties, The Gillies Report, where Clarke’s mendacious, straight faced bullshitter first appeared.
John’s excerpt says it all.

By: john

john — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:10:51 +0000

Clark and Doyle were on

The front fell of

By: perplexed

perplexed — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:35:27 +0000

I’ve often found Clarke and Doyle at the end of the 7 pm ABC TV news very funny. Come to think of it, I don’t recall it being on last night. Was I mistaken or is this the latest instance of an ‘institution’ – a comedy interlude – getting quietly shafted?

By: paul walter

paul walter — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:48:36 +0000

Yes, two points raised. The genesis of much we love with comedy esp Brit is the “Goon Show”, with its overt poking of the stark ridiculous, contradictory and paradoxical.
The other thing is the short shelf life. You split your guts at some thing new for a season or two but after a while familiarity breeds contempt. Southpark is a good example of some thing fresh going stale. At this stage am starting to get bored with the Bunker Rants also.

By: JB Cairns

JB Cairns — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:17:30 +0000

I thought their best sketch was the dead parrot sketch.

The Aunty Jack Show in the mid 70s on the ABC, naturally, certainly approached Monty Python heights.
They did some radio on double jay just after that and were just as funny.

By: john

john — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:29:33 +0000

By: john

john — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:29:09 +0000

Stop knocking I can’t hear Min

By: Pedro

Pedro — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:22:31 +0000

I suspect that the Young Ones was funny for people of an age at an age. I sure liked it at the time. Stuff that is funny because it shocks you won’t last.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:05:53 +0000

Bad humour is formulaic and the formula wears off. I never much liked the Young Ones because it seemed to play on a particular stereotype as self-evidently funny. Which is about as funny as a toilet joke. Jokes that get funnier are those where the joke is some truth which acquires more meaning (and perhaps meaningS) as we experience life.

By: conrad

conrad — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:22:01 +0000

“Are there jokes that get worse with age?”

I would guess the majority of jokes get worse with age, or at least repetition. I can’t help wondering why some don’t.

Funnily enough, on this note, I recently watched a few episodes of the Young Ones, which I remember being funny when they first came out, and they were generally cringe-worthy to me now (although I still had a few laughs left). Alternatively, Yes Minister seems ageless.

By: Don Arthur

Don Arthur — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:41:49 +0000

Are there jokes that get worse with age?

By: rog

rog — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:11:38 +0000

In his one and a half man show John Cleese recycles many of his old jokes and age does not diminish them.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:19:03 +0000

Now for some thing completely different.
Judean People’s Front versus the People’s Front of Judea.