Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

Jason · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:34 pm)

This is the thread about moments in our past when our views about comedy were changed dynamically. Times when you remember laughing hysterically because words were delivered in a way that had not occurred to you otherwise, even though now they may seem mundane or embarrassing.
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Jason · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:37 pm)

http://www.seanbaby.com/e3/e3part03.htm

Jason · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:44 pm)

http://youtu.be/IURfntimnlA

Mike Dunn · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:08 pm)

Fagzilla · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:52 pm)

I have to be in the right mood for Seanbaby. But when I am, he is transcendent.

There was one day, and this was within the last year or so, where I started reading Man Comics, and I was in a mood such that it was literally the funniest thing I had ever seen. It was the kind of funny where I wasn't laughing, I was just gasping in wonder with my eyes wide. I hadn't read Seanbaby in years, and I figured "this guy probably won't have aged well and he won't be nearly as funny as I remember." But I was wrong as shit.

At other times, maybe it's a mood thing, I can "see the wires" of what he's doing and I'm not so impressed. When I'm reading something of his out loud, which I have done on occasion to Lexy, it's not funny and I get embarrassed as I'm reading. The thing about Lexy though is that, while there's a lot of intersection, her sense of humor is different than mine. She thinks I'm horribly unfunny for example, and my FTU posts particularly unbearable (which is probably a good thing because I need someone to keep me in check). But, anyway, it may be that the feeling of Seanbaby not being funny out loud is a side-effect of reading it to her.

But generally I think Seanbaby is like the Onion when read aloud. It's masterful, but the words are only good when they're coming silently off of the screen into your brain. Seanbaby himself is barely funny in person.

He really is the best in the world at that style of comedy though. The only person who comes close in the "kurreezy associations" style is Mike Payne. Most people who work in that style are just awful nerds who don't have the right touch for it.

I guess this is more a post about written humor.

Mike Dunn · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:56 pm)

Mike Payne and Seanbaby were huge for me, as I'm sure they were for pretty much everyone here.

Jason · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:58 pm)

What are crazy associations?
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Fagzilla · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:22 pm)

It's hard to explain in words, and I don't feel like looking for an example.

It's juxtaposing two things that aren't normally juxtaposed, or creating comparisons between things that you would never think to compare. It's saying something totally unexpected and not anticipatable.

Like Mike's classic "Yes, well, magic penis." update.

It was lol random, but random in the right way, and also very Mike.

Big Fagot is another master of this, which is what makes his writing such a feast for the brain!

Unlike most writing (especially on the Web, and especially especially shit like movie reviews) you don't actually know word for tiresome word what the next sentence (or paragraph) is going to say. There's no prefabricated phrasing.

ALDP · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:32 pm)

duhhhh

Big Fagot · (Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:27 pm)

I went to an improv show for the first time. There were three groups in ascending order of experience. The first group was less painful than I imagined improv would be. The second group was competent and were worth the price of admission alone. The third group was insanely, shockingly hilarious, a paralyzing and brutal comedic force that compels one to confront one's limits. Toward the end of the segment, this happened:

Fagzilla · (Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:40 am)

That was a very courageous post to make. Given the context.

So fucking cocky!

Big Fagot · (Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:29 am)

It is not necessary for this thread that we all crack up at each other's anecdotes.

Fagzilla · (Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:01 pm)

Haha!

MADali · (Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:31 pm)

Remember that one time the shooter killed all those people at that Batman movie? Hi-la-rious.

Magic Juan · (Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:37 pm)

None of MADali's posts ever

Magic Juan · (Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:45 pm)

1. Videotape of Stephen Wright when I was young
2. "I went to the doctor and he tried to suck blood out of me...never go see Dr. Acula."
3. Lemon of Troy
4. The Office Episode - Gay Witch Hunt
5. Airplane is still a very funny movie to me and I get a lot of the references

MADali · (Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:14 am)

When I was a kid, all of Naked Gun movies and Hot Shots 2.

ALDP · (Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:17 am)

A Confederacy of Dunces was a good book that meant a lot to me

MADali · (Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:51 am)

I just realized something. Most comedy writers on the internet that are sort of famous, such as penny arcade, seanbaby, the staff of cracked, the oatmeal, kxcd, are all our age. That is, the age group that grew up on the internet in the late 90s and early 00s. But, this also means, that 16-18 year olds are not really being funny on the internet. Or not famously funny. Or maybe, they are funny, but they don't have the experience the older ones do, who were lucky since they didn't have much competition from the previous generation.

Magic Juan · (Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:27 am)

Naked Gun was pretty powerful for me as well when I was young