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opt2not:
Hmm, since last June huh? Yeah, that would have been about the time we started pre-production on this.  So that's definitely part of it, but also because I have a couple paid commissions I've been struggling through, still am. So free time away from work, along side of this hobby and life has been sparse in the last year.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 21, 2011, 12:24:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 21, 2011, 12:03:13 pm ---Agree, its formula is a constant barrage of lame jokes, maybe 1 out of 5 jokes is funny, people tend to forget the lame humor and only remember what they laugh at, but if you pay attention 80% of it is not funny.

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Umm you do realize that you just descibed comedy don't you?

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You're wrong, Howard.  He described bad comedy.  Good comedy doesn't just hit you with a nonstop barrage of jokes, regardless of quality, hoping that something is bound to make someone somewhere laugh.  That's just crap.  Comedy does not need to deliver a punchline at least once every five seconds.  Just because you end up laughing a few times at the latest Adam Sandler movie doesn't make it good, or put it on par with, like, Groundhog Day or Wedding Crashers or Ghostbusters or Dr. Strangelove.  Good comedy does not tell unfunny jokes.  Like . . . by definition, it doesn't.  Surely you see that.

Hell . . . watch Archer.  From beginning to end it is hilarious.  Almost no unfunny joke is told.  That is how primetime animation is done.  And that is exactly how Family Guy is not done.  If Seth Macfarlane "understands" the humor of your generation, I'm sort of ashamed to be 32 years old. 

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 21, 2011, 12:24:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 21, 2011, 12:03:13 pm ---Agree, its formula is a constant barrage of lame jokes, maybe 1 out of 5 jokes is funny, people tend to forget the lame humor and only remember what they laugh at, but if you pay attention 80% of it is not funny.

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Seriously watch any stand-up comedian's act ...... it's 35 minutes of them talking about their life trying to be funny and then 3-5 minutes of some of the funniest stuff you've ever heard.  I'm talking top-shelf comedians like Prior too, not your typical run-of-the-mill hack job.

If every single joke in a show is considered funny to you then it's entered such a niche market that there's no way it would ever be broadcast on network television.  The reason you find some of te jokes "lame" is because they weren't directed towards you, but rather somebody else that would appreciate the joke.  1 out of 5 is pretty damn funny... that means you find 1/5th of the content to be funny.  I dare you to find that ratio with anything else on network tv.

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1 out of 5 jokes is a terrible ratio and only five minutes of LOL funny stuff from a comedian = Please Give Me My Money Back.    Funny is subjective but a good joke is a good joke, even if it doesn't particularly tickle your funny bone.  If a show is only making one good joke and four throwaway jokes then it is not a funny show.   Granted, I don't exactly throw Family Guy in that category just yet.

Speaking of FG: I used to like it.  A lot.  But I think there came a point after it was resurrected when Seth McFarlane thought he could throw anything out there and hope it works, forgetting what made the show funny the first time.  Too much reliance on unnecessary gross-out humor, too much preaching as of late (Brian became the annoying "Lisa Simpson" of Family Guy) and jokes that go on for way too long even after the punchline had long been delivered.  And the episode when Brian and Stewie were trapped in the vault was just pretentious BS where it had forgotten it was a comedy. 

I still watch it and laugh occasionally - but it's no longer required watching for me.     


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