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"Surrealism is an excuse for not being funny"

Inspired by RPC. Discuss.

Inspired by RPC. Discuss.

True, thats why I may drop out of the pap.

Totally agree.

Evidence - I use it 50% of the time.

But some people I know (younger people) try to hard to be surreal, and it just doesnt work at all.

*hypocrit at work*

However, I find Vic and Bob funny. Mad, isn't it.

Classic TV.
When the times up you'll hear this noise - "Barbara They're stealing our towels!"

Watching shooting stars is like a ritual for me.

I saw an old one, with Mark Lamarr, and it was awful. But last Monday's Buzzcocks was great.

"I'll have your eye out!"

Again, a terrible conflict of interests.

Ah missed that, loving Bill Baily though, I think thats his name?

It CAN be funny, like Brass Eye when they said they launched a paedophile into space then they 'revealed' that an 8 year old boy had been sent as well and it was the "worst thing that could happen"

But you get people walking around with those t-shirts that say "I'm not crazy, but my camal friend monty is" - or whatever! - just isn't funny.

"Are you kidding me, your being 'zany' for the sake of it?"

People who try too hard to be obscure and funny just aren't funny at all. I find people who are deadpan and don't feel the need to announce their humour with exclamation points are the funniest, because it's not patronising me, informing me that what I just read was a joke.

Having said that, Meka's !!!!!!1 thing still makes me laugh.

It can be; surrealism is often trotted out as an excuse for lazy 'comedy'. But listen to Derek and Clive ('My first job' for example) and then tell me that surrealism isn't funny.

Good surrealism is better than anything (in my opinion). Bad surrealism is just too cackbone awful for words.