What gets you "stuck on stupid"? My son is currently obsessed with watching Monty Python's Holy Grail on YouTube and then repeating, in full Brit accent the lines -- as if we haven't heard them enough as he watches them again and again.
But it got me to thinking -- and that's a scary thing. What gets you stuck on stupid? What can you watch again and again and just laugh -- even though you know it's ridiculous and you're sort of embarrassed to laugh at it, but you'll still watch it and laugh again. I love a lot of physical comedy in this sense. Why is watching someone fall so funny? And wow, what did we do before YouTube had our favorites taking a dive?
There was this old Nancy Reagan tape. If you're old enough to remember, she used to fall all the time, and she was made of nothing, so for some reason this used to crack me up. I know! I know! I'm not proud of it. But there was one where she was standing behind an 18" stand, and one minute you saw her, the next you didn't. An old lady falling? What the heck??? Okay, but this was also at the time she was consulting psychics and really more strange than thought of as a fragile old lady. (Does that make me seem less cruel? No?) LOL
So here's a round-up of my favorite stuck on stupid tapes, if you're bored at all today. Watch one and see how truly childish I am.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3RlFPI5jYRc
Seinfeld's Date with Man Hands
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tjTpj3l1KoI
King Tut -- Steve Martin -- I was like 12, what can I say, it still cracks me up.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g5vnZec964c&feature=related
Sputnik -- Mike Myers Making fun of his kid's fat head.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8shdlcJjAJ8&feature=related
Noodle Salad
"As Good As It Gets" -- Dysfunctional Life Fun
So the reason I was thinking about this is I saw my former editor Angela last night. No one can make me laugh like Ang, she is seriously the funniest person I know, topped only by her own mother. She grew up Muslim in Montana. I imagine that gives one a warped personality. She is BRILLIANT and now she is agenting and she's representing Bonnie Brown who wrote Giigle about her life experiences becoming a millionaire massaging at Google. She was here signing the book last night. And I'm half way through it. FUN< FABULOUS read and you will be so happy and rooting for her because she just has fabulous joy that emanates from her.
Bonnie's been on Ellen this week, she's been profiled on the front page of the New York Times and much more is to come. See her site at www.GiigleBook.com
Go have a fun Thursday and tell me what makes you laugh!!
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Dane Cook's At the Wall or Badly Needed Cry.
What makes me laugh?
1. Teaching high school English to teenagers.
2. Watching Young Frankenstein.
3. Discovering you can do tons of cool tricks with a floorball stick (a bit like a hockey stick, only lighter weight). You can pretend it's a canoe paddle, weights, a microphone, guitar, etc., etc. You can even twirl it like a baton!
Dumb and Dumber, eh?
Oh, the Sputnik thing w/ Mike Myers makes me roll...that's so funny!
And almost everything in Christmas Vacation gets me giggling. What about the movie Strange Brew? I haven't seen it in a LONG time, but I remember laughing hysterically at it.
I thought it was only guys who laughed at people falling. I never laugh at that. Maybe because I do it too much myself. LOL But those America's Funniest Home Videos? I have to turn it off when they're showing falling. It's SO not funny.
But I love to watch Pretty Woman and laugh so much at her faux paux. LOL
Laughter means: The Cone Heads (SNL), Steve Martin, and my all time favorite "Alf". He was just hilarious. (As if he was real..........)
I have to see Dane Cook. I'm ignorant, don't know who he is. I'll look it up. Pam, Young Frankenstein is classic. I can quote many a line from that one too.
Sally, I quote Christmas Vacation all the time when my parents come with their RV. "Crapper's FULL!" ROFLOL
Classic, all classic. Pretty Woman feels more like a vengeful movie to me than funny. It's so great when she gets to tell off the sales girl. : )
I love Whose Line is it Anyway, especially the episodes with Wayne Brady. Almost everything he does is funny.
There's also this thing out there called Elfyourself where you upload your picture and it dances around. That cracks me up every time. http://www.elfyourself.com/ It's the littlest things that amuse me the most...
As long as nobody gets hurt, I'm another one who laughs at falling, especially when it's me. Ever hear Ellen D. describe people tripping/falling. They trip, break into run, and think nobody knows they tripped. LOL
Nancy, I'm with you. I think that's why it's funny to me too. I'm a natural klutz.
LOL I looooove Ellen's tripping description.
Dane is coarse, but some of the things he brings up are those little things that almost everyone does but never really thought about. And his delivery is absolutely hysterical.
I laugh when it happens to me--just not when it happens to others. My motherly instincts kick in and I'm more worried they're hurt!
Mother in you? I'm the mother of four and we all find it funny. LOL
Quite true, but I mother everyone! LOL
Have you guys ever seen Brad Stine? Put a helmet on!! He's great.
But mostly, I crack up watching our dog (90 lb.) be cowed by our 10 lb cat. (He'll chase any other cat to kingdom come, but all Knox has to do is walk in the room and Dakota stops dead in his tracks! Too funny.) And he's hilarious with a laser light. He thinks he's a chihuahua, but he's really a lab-rottweiler mix...yeah. Lap dog, the whole thing. Ouch! :-)
Oh, and my kid. She's pretty funny.
We laugh a lot around here.
Oh, oh, me too, Rachel! I just howled at the way our daughter's cat ruled the roost at her house! Her golden retriever tread very carefully around Euphrates. Hilarious!
Colleen--
Knox is 16, and he doesn't know he's a cat. He was sooooo angry when we brought that ANIMAL into his house!
Guess who he was mad at. Me. Even though I fought getting a dog for months, I was the one who got blamed. Go figure! Dakota's 3 now, and Knox still isn't over it.
All he had to do was slap the snot out of the dog once though, and he was back in charge!
Aaiieee! :-)
Slapstick, pratfalls. I crack up every time. I try really hard to be nice and not laugh when real people fall, though.
Steve Martin dancing.
Adam Sandler singing.
Mike Myers doing just about anything.
Wayne's World makes me laugh and I'm embarrassed to admit that.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Pee Wee Herman's adventure, too. Especially the part where he falls off his bike, of course.
Bronx Beat on SNL. Snortingly funnier (at least to us) when teen daughter and I try to imitate those New Joisy accents...
I dont watch funniest home videos cos i to think some of the videos have to hurt and are not really funny I have laughed at someone tripping but it was cos they were too. At the cricket lad fell sort of on the steps it was more how he did it. but i did ask how he was cos its the sort of think i would do and hes said i'll be ok after it stops hurting. he cracked up and so did we. It was the response not the fall. and yes he was ok, the reason we were there added to it also.
I have to say at present i have rediscovered MASH and its the early ones and so funny
I have a friend who every time I'm around her I laugh till my stomach hurts. I love those people!
A funny funny memory: The first time my younger brother saw Home Alone, in the scene where Kevin (I would remember his name) is playing the tricks on the robbers, my brother laughed so hard he fell of the couch and wet his pants! It was more funny tow atch him than to watch the movie! ;)
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I laugh when people get hurt (like all those people falling on the aforementioned AFV shows) I can't help it. I love stuff like that.
Mr Bean's Holiday was funny and made me laugh.
Mostly I laugh at stuff most people don't pick up on (like a local sign that says "county ditch"-it's on the highway and cracks me up every time I pass it, like is it the ONLY ditch in the county? I've got to remember to get a picture of it)
And people make me laugh. All the time.
Steve Martin always makes me laugh, but my all time favorite movie is Young Frankenstein. The gags in that are so classic, they're hysterical. :o) Okay, I'm sick. I know it.
Wow, everyone got into the spirit. All great, stupid laughs. That's living! When you giggle like you're at a slumber party.
I'm a big fan of British humor. I laugh at the outrageous like Monty Python's Flying Circus or Keeping Up Appearances.
I like voices and the "hearing" of a gag. I think how you appreciate humor has a little to do with your learning style. (yeah, I wrote and presented a master's paper on that.ha) My five guys can make me laugh harder than anyone else.
But I'm very auditory in learning style and the delivery has a lot to do with what makes me laugh.
I thought My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a hoot. I thought Guarding Tess was really funny--I like Nicholas Cage in roles, and Shirley Maclaine, though. I don't think I necessarily like pratfalls or so much physical humor. I always liked the liners in Indiana Jones or National Treasure, or even James Bond and definitely in Michael and Groundhog Day.
Humor is so intimate. What makes one person laugh will barely bring a smile to another person.Great thoughts here.
Mine is the fainting goats on UTube! Priceless!!!
I LOVE Ang! She emailed me and we've been working on projects together...and I got to read and review Bonnie's book!
Oh, gee...stuck on stupid...Mel Brooks classic movies, my 13 year old son's comedy routines....and the penguins in Madagascar;-) Oh, and the Happy Little Working Song from Enchanted...
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