Do you get slapstick humor?

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Slapstick can be funny, but if it's used too repetitively it's just boring. As a part of a movie/show it's fun, and in cartoons it can't be overdone. It never makes me wince, and it's not nasty; it's not real.
Some of the scenes in the video OP posted made me laugh.

I think the sounds themselves are funny but there are too many of them in some shows so they get a little too much for me.

You are right Skil. It can be funny. I was thinking specifically of the Three Stooges and episodes that I have seen before. But I guess there are a lot of different levels of slapstick so perhaps there is some that I would really enjoy.

I love slapstick if its done right.
The Three Stooges were funny when I was about nine,
I mean its basically a cartoon done with real people.
Theses days I find this kinda slapstick funny:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlHuQOV-7Bs[/youtube]

Last edited by EzraS on 16 Jan 2014, 9:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Thank you Ezra, now I have learned something new. I love Seinfeld and find it hilarious. I did not realize that Seinfeld was slapstick. I always just thought of slapstick as Three Stooges kind of stuff. So there you go, Skil, you were right also.

Yeah, slapstick was hilarious. When I was like five years old.

so I take it that a lot of people here would also find "America's home videos" or whatever that program is called, would also be unpleasant for them to watch what with all the unintentional slapstick contained therein.

I aways thought that show was stupid. I never watched it. If I had to watch it, I would just site there with a bored look on my face.

a welcome addition to this thread would be comments about which types of comedy us highly varied WPers prefer.

For me that's easy. Satire. The Onion rocks. They need to bring back the Autistic Reporter.

I can agree with the onion.

i loved dr house's humor on the show house his verbal and practical jokes were so funny to me dont know what you'd call that type of comedy i also like dark comedy ie American psycho

I don't think slapstick is funny.

I like simple jokes (i.e. "What do you call a cow with two legs? LEAN BEEF!"), dry humor, and satire. I also like some clever but insensitive humor when it's well-placed.

I LOVED "freebie and the bean"

One of the funniest movies I ever saw was Arthur (the original 1980)
Especially the butlers dry wisecracks "usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature".
and What About Bob? with Bill Murry
Both had some good slapstick, but the dialog was priceless.

I can't stand slapstick either, and it was much more popular back when I was a kid.

Years later I read an aphorism by Nietzsche that makes great make sense to me: "A joke is an epitaph on the death of a feeling."

But I do like silly...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZGg0qNdCc[/youtube]