10 to 20 years ago aren't funny anymore? I still laugh at The Andy Griffith Show, but over the past few weeks I have seen reruns of Seinfeld, Amen, Cheers, and some other shows that were popular back in the day. I don't laugh at any of them anymore. For some reason I laughed at the 30 second video of Family Guy that was posted in the "RIP Ernie..." thread. I think South Park does a pretty good job making fun of the world and Family Guy is good too. I also like watching Two and a Half Men. Have the perverted minds of the people who write the scripts for tv today caused society to not enjoy good comedy anymore, or was society just that lame in the 80s and 90s?

[Edited on May 22, 2010 at 9:25 PM. Reason : .]

5/22/2010 9:24:38 PM

THINGS ARE ONLY FUNNY TO ME WHEN IT'S IN HDTV

5/22/2010 9:30:30 PM

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" Seinfeld"

so you like family guy and not seinfeld

fail.

fail.

FAIL.

5/22/2010 9:32:17 PM

^^So you don't like any episodes of tv shows that are about pre-2002?

^Seinfeld is good, but I guess once you have seen the same episode 2 million times then it isn't funny anymore.

[Edited on May 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM. Reason : .]

5/22/2010 9:32:42 PM

it's all relative. planes, trains, and automobile still brings the lols every single time to me even though it's from 1987 and "dated" as fuck. the way we get along--or don't get along--with each other will always have humor waiting to be tapped

5/22/2010 9:34:15 PM

fresh prince of bel-air, never forget

5/22/2010 9:34:56 PM

^^That is what makes South Park so good.

[Edited on May 22, 2010 at 9:38 PM. Reason : .]

5/22/2010 9:38:25 PM

The 80's is more than 10-20 years ago.

5/22/2010 9:39:24 PM

Seinfeld episodes I've watched umpteen zillion times, but every once in awhile I find a line or thing that's still funny to me.

Never watched Cheers.

Was Amen ever actually funny? I remember it being largely forgettable except for having Sherman Hemsley.

It's kind of a hit-or-miss thing. Many of the jokes and conventions from older sitcoms have been run into the ground, so they're not fresh anymore. Plus the hair, fashion, and clothing can be distracting (for me at least).

5/22/2010 10:01:25 PM

^^Yeh, but Seinfeld was still going in the mid 90s and was funny.

5/22/2010 11:32:11 PM

i like how the OP busted out Amen

5/22/2010 11:57:33 PM

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"^Seinfeld is good, but I guess once you have seen the same episode 2 million times then it isn't funny anymore."

I own the series on DVD (and pop discs in regularly) and also still frequently watch the reruns on TV when Im doing stuff around the house during the week. Still laugh a lot at probably 75% of the episodes. (A few get overplayed and the weaker episodes have worn on me after the first million times I've seen them hah).

I know everyone is different though and I can totally understand not thinking certain shows are funny anymore after seeing them a lot. (I use to like the early seasons of Family Guy but sold my DVDs because they became unfunny after not many re-watches). But for some reason, Seinfeld is just golden for me.

As stated in another thread though, 2.5 Men is hardly funny and ridiculously predictable. Even mentioning it in the same conversation as Seinfeld is ludicrous.

5/22/2010 11:57:47 PM

Yall niggas postin in a troll thread

5/23/2010 12:01:52 AM

The first 2-3 seasons of south park are not at all funny to me now. Early-mid 90s Simpsons is still funny though.

5/23/2010 12:12:03 AM

^ Because the later Simpson's is garbage.

5/23/2010 12:12:54 AM

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"As stated in another thread though, 2.5 Men is hardly funny and ridiculously predictable. Even mentioning it in the same conversation as Seinfeld is ludicrous."

Well my point is that in the late 80s to mid 90s there were shows like Coach, The Cosby Show, and other comedies that I laughed at back in the day, but they aren't as funny to me anymore. Shows seemed to be not quite so perverted back then. Now all the people I work with talk about Family Guy and South Park.


Oh and Wings will always pwn all tv shows except maybe Andy Griffith.

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 2:14 AM. Reason : .]

5/23/2010 2:13:21 AM

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"I also like watching Two and a Half Men"

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"I also like watching Two and a Half Men"

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"I also like watching Two and a Half Men"

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"I also like watching Two and a Half Men"

Why are we even considering this guy's opinion?

5/23/2010 3:09:41 AM

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"The first 2-3 seasons of south park are not at all funny to me now."

Truth.

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"Oh and Wings will always pwn all tv shows"

Also truth, though I still love Seinfeld and Northern Exposure as well.

Do they make "family sitcoms" anymore? Stuff like Family Matters, Home Improvement, etc. I can't think of any currently on the air.

5/23/2010 4:42:00 AM

I donno, I just watch movies, HBO and stars.

5/23/2010 6:24:33 AM

^^modern family. . . is house of pain still on? there are some on upn or whatever i think.

anyway. i came to post that south park gets stale really damn quick for me because so much of it is topical.

also i don't see how the cosby show could get stale for anyone (at least the first 4-5 seasons)

5/23/2010 8:03:11 AM

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"it's all relative. planes, trains, and automobile still brings the lols every single time to me even though it's from 1987 and "dated" as fuck. the way we get along--or don't get along--with each other will always have humor waiting to be tapped"

I have never seen that entire movie, but I am planning to watch it on my portable DVD player when I leave for Boston in the morning.

5/23/2010 4:21:03 PM

Married... with Children still brings the LOLs.

5/23/2010 4:26:12 PM

5/23/2010 4:40:01 PM

this thread has confirmed that the OP has a mental handicap of some sort

5/23/2010 4:46:46 PM

it probably has something to do with the notion that you don't have a temporal attachment to andy griffith

5/23/2010 4:59:57 PM

^^No, I just think some of the older comedies from the late 80s/early 90s aren't as funny as they used to be.

5/23/2010 5:07:17 PM

i used to enjoy nick a nite....they had good stuff like family matters, home improvement, fresh prince, etc (the tgif stuff) but now.....i think all it is now is george lopez which

5/23/2010 6:22:11 PM

i have a hard time watching old seinfeld reruns too... not sure what it is...

5/23/2010 6:26:50 PM

It's because the only thing funny to people anymore is something that is somewhat shocking or random. Comedy Devolution. -> -> -> -> -> ->

5/23/2010 6:49:54 PM

^True. It started with The Simpsons being a PG rated cartoon and then came Bevis & Butthead making references to boobs and saying other things that were not G rated. Seinfeld brought in some religious humor and references to sex. Then came South Park which can be really perverted and they make fun of the world. Then came Family Guy which also can be very perverted and has some rated R humor in it too. Then came Two and a Half Men which is a show about 2 brothers and their sex lives. I don't watch every comedy show on tv, but from what I remember back in the day, the 80s and 90s weren't quite as perverted as tv is today. I don't remember Coach, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Home Improvement, etc being as R rated as comedy has become today. I traditionally watch sports, the Discovery/History/NGC/TLC, etc, and South Park. Maybe that has caused me to have a poor sense of humor.

5/23/2010 7:19:21 PM

I've got a pretty keen wit

and I've never found Seinfeld terribly funny.


I should clarify...i don't think it's unfunny, but I could never get the fanaticism. Never drew me in.

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 7:36 PM. Reason : sdfdsasa]

5/23/2010 7:27:31 PM

lol the 1980s were not "back in the day"

there was 30 years of tv prior

and it wasn't quite as sterile as you might think it was



[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 7:41 PM. Reason : +]

5/23/2010 7:40:02 PM

queen troll strikes again

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5/23/2010 7:41:50 PM

So last night I watched "My Cousin Vinny" on FMC. That is still funny. I guess not all comedy from the 80s and 90s is bad.

6/4/2010 3:01:27 PM

Laugh tracks are dead and shows that use them are generally less funny than shows that do not.

6/4/2010 3:08:18 PM