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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 7:48:17 PM
i do NOT like 'slapstick' .. i do like woody allen type of humor. i like spontaneous humor that just rises up .. not planned .. but 'meets the situation' .. i do NOT like MEAN-SPIRITED humor or the kind that EVER EVER EVER makes fun of people who are in any way disadvantaged.
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| Marcy |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 1:47:15 PM
I love the 40's and 50's old time radio. Jack Benny is my favorite. I also love Fibber McGee and Molly, Ozzie and Harriet, My Favorite Husband (I am a huge Lucille Ball fan) Martin and Lewis (love both of them) The Life of Riley and so on...
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 1:13:23 PM
I don't like sitcoms (at all) but I really liked Everybody Loves Raymond. His mother IS my mother-in-law.
I really miss I Love Lucy and Carol Burnett. Now, That's funny, I don't care who you are. Yes, I like the blue collar comedy guys. |
| Nigella |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 10:16:07 AM
I Love Lucy of course!! I do think that my humor is rather dry at times.....
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If the ways is long
Let your heart be strong
Keep right on 'round the bend
Though you're tired and weary
Still journey on to your happy abode
Where all that you love
And are dreaming of
Will be there at the end of the road.
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 09:33:56 AM
Oh yeah....'I Love Lucy', of course! You really got me thinking of my favorite shows.... :)
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 09:25:47 AM
Home Improvement was a great show...I liked how the wife would put him in his place with her wit...very smart! It sort of poked fun at the macho mentality. Also, 'All in the Family' was a classic. It was ahead of its time and poked fun at ourselves with our ingrained prejudices. I remember sitting with my father watching it, and he would practically roll on the floor laughing! His laughter would set me off! I also enjoyed 'Carol Burnett', and 'Mary Tyler Moore'. Those were the must-see shows of the 70's for me. I loved 'Cheers'...really silly barroom humor and 'Cosby'. I wanted to live at their house. lol
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 09:24:30 AM
Frannie- Christopher Walken is an actor who played rather creepy characters for most of his career. He actually started out as a song and dance man, believe it or not!
Here's a little something he did a few years back. The song is not that great, but the dancing is super.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs
Karin
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 08:20:46 AM
That was Home Improvement and my husband and I loved that show especially Al. And they really had quite the going with Wilson
Denise
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| Jami |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 08:09:21 AM
Hey, what about Tim the Tool Man show...can't remember the title but I thought that was a great show because of his "accidents"...you could always see them coming before they happened. And Wilson was a hoot...the partial faced wise man neighbor.
Jami in WA
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| Jami |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 08:05:07 AM
Seinfeld is a classic isn't it? Although I can't take Kramer sometimes...he just is too over-the-edge for me.
Jami in WA
Farmgirl Sister #266
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 08:02:18 AM
Georgianne .. i think these shows are funny because we can all 'relate' to them! OH how often i will see me or my honey-man in a scene from lotsa' 'married couple' shows! And it makes me LAUGH!
marian .. i adore romantic comedies ... ben stiller in Meet the Fockers and Meet the Parents had me giggling all the way through!
T .. what precious stories! and i do believe you are absolutely right .. the funniest and dearest humor just pops out naturally from children .. they have SUCH an insight that we seem to outgrow sometimes.
Karen .. is Christopher Walken on a show? i'm not familiar with his name either. But sometimes, i'll not know a 'real' name .. but will know the TV name.
oh judy! i remember that episode. i swear each character on that show was so perfectly developed!
and i thought it was amazingly astute of Seinfeld to quit while ahead.
oh jami .. i remember LOVING the routines of abbot and costello many years ago. i heard their 'who's on first' routine on XM radio last week and it still made me laugh.
denise .. i also remember all the kids gathering around the newest TV on the block to watch Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin!
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 07:54:22 AM
audrey i love watching seinfeld re-runs .. a fabulous show about 'nothing'!! never saw Larry David or the Curb your Enthusiasm show. HA! i always have a hard time doing that!
i also love the 'dry' wit in shows like Everybody Loves Raymond .. and King of Queens. I love some of the older silly sitcoms too!
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 07:35:01 AM
I prefer clean humor. I like Jerry Lewis and just recently we watched Mr. Bean Takes a holiday. The scene where he lip syncs opera is hilarious. At least to my family's sense of humor anyway.
Denise
farmgirl sister #43
"Take a lesson from the teakettle, though up to its
neck in hot water...it sings!"
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| Jami |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 07:29:18 AM
I like slapstick too. The one kind of humor I don't like is when it's really "painful" humor...like Funniest Home Videos when people do things and you know it results in an injury and I can't figure out why the audience is laughing.
The fun thing about old slapstick humor like the Three Stooges is that they never showed them getting hurt. A board would hit them in the head and they would just smack their face and move on...same with Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello. Those are faves of mine too.
I don't understand Woody Allen humor and never have. Guess I'm a really simple girl. Frannie, you're a deep thinker...that sort of humor fits your personality very well.
Jami in WA
Farmgirl Sister #266
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 06:47:27 AM
Larry David's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is great, too! Also, some of Woody Allen's movies.
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 06:44:06 AM
I kinda like silly, or 'bonehead' humor. I haven't seen these in many years, but I caught Laurel and Hardy while channel surfing, and laughed out loud! Also, I can appreciate the Three Stooges...I guess stupid, slapstick humor gets a laugh from me. Then there's Seinfeld...a few episodes were really good. The episode which Kramer takes on a horse cart driver's job and feeds it Beefo'roni, in which he had too many cans. The horse had a gas problem....and Kramer and the riders of the cart got a noseful! LOL... Ok....a cheap laugh, but works every time. Dry or wry humor is good too...if I'm sharp enough to catch it!
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 05:14:43 AM
I love a good sense of humor. I sort of like watching episodes of Seinfeld, although some can get a bit dodgey. I have to say that Christopher Walken can deliver a line or give a look that just cracks me up. I don't think I've ever seen Tommy Lee Jones in anything. I think I'm missing something! Like StarMeadow, my kids are the best source of humor in my house. They make me laugh all the time.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
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| StarMeadow |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 04:59:28 AM
Right now, I'm in love with the humor that comes from my 8-year old.
The other day we were out shopping at Hobby Lobby. Came around the corner and saw (literally) hundreds of penguins...penguin table toppers, ornaments, cups...you name it. I hollered at my son to come and look, he comes around the corner and says, "Wow! It's penguintopia!"
Later on the way home, I'm complaining (and a little whining) about how bad my elbow hurts (tendonitis) and he asks, "Why does your elbow hurt so bad today?" I reply, "Because of all the lifting I've been doing and all the shopping." He says (without skipping a beat), "Well, I guess you better quit shop-lifting."
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| dutchy |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 03:51:46 AM
I love humor! Not mean spirited or just plain ugly. But good natured.
I like to laugh WITH someone, not AT them, but with them.
I do NOT like slapstick either, SO dumb :)
I like to watch romantic comedies.
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| Georgiann |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 03:50:12 AM
Frannie, don't you think slapstick is boy humor? (OK, I know there are some girls who like it, as well!) I don't care for it either, but I do love when my boys (son and DH) are laughing like crazy at slapstick -- now, my grandsons love it too! They develop that love early, I think.
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| Georgiann |
Posted - Sep 05 2008 : 03:47:41 AM
Sometimes when we are watching a TV sitcom, I look at my husband and wonder if he sent that story to the writers, or if there is a hidden camera in our house. There was an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond in which Ray didn't vote for Deb for an office in the PTA -- that really happened a few years earlier to us!
So, I guess I love that family humor -- Ray, Jeff Foxworthy, Jim Belushi kind of thing.
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| Back Home Again |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 11:30:26 PM
Don't know why I posted just Seinfeld....I meant his type of humor and I also like Larry David (sometimes)...ever watch his show Curb Your Enthusiasm? It was really good the first couple of seasons but not so the last. I still, most of the time, think he is an absolute hoot! Yikes..it is getting late...I think I am starting to ramble....sweet dreams everyone!
Until Later,
Audrey
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 11:11:37 PM
ohhh .. i love tommy lee jones' one-liners in his movies!!!
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| Back Home Again |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 8:31:52 PM
love Good Humor too Frannie LOL!!! Is that a bell ringing down my street???
Ha!
Until Later,
Audrey
ps...besides ice cream sandwiches :)... hmmmm ..one would be Seinfeld!
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| elphie0503 |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 8:08:33 PM
I love me some dry sense humor...Tommy Lee Jones delivers every single time!!!
Samantha
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 7:49:19 PM
oh! i do love GOOD HUMOR (you know the kind that has vanilla in the middle covered with a thin layer of chocolate!)
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