TheMarchingMule
Headphoneus Supremus
I'm sitting here listening to some Children of Bodom (completely unrelated), and my roommate is listening to some Mitch Hedburg stand-up comedy. I don't know exactly why, but after a few minutes of it, I get damned annnoyed by it and I feel like taking his laptop and throwing it across the room. I feel that way for most stand-up comedy, and it includes greats like the late George Carlin.
I understand the impressive part with them being able to analyze and put a spin on everyday things, and we see them in perhaps a new light (aka George Carlin speaking on the differences between baseball and football). But I'm watching and/or hearing people almost freakin' CRY with laughter over some of the stuff. I don't get it, it's not that funny, or funny at all (to me, obviously). I just overheard the late Mitch Hedburg talk about something of a duck walking into a store and taking bread. I thought that was amusing, until he said something along the lines of him being okay with it, and he rambled on with how he'd let the duck take the Pepperidge Farm bread next time. Okaaaay, so what? Are we supposed to form a constant image off of what he says and imagine a duck just clearing out the bread department? (See, that was funny in my mind right there, but I think this leads into my next point.).
I think my greatest annoyance with these people (don't get me started on Dane Cook) is how they say it like EVERYTHING that comes out of their mouth is a hoot, and people just clamor for the next thing they say like mindless animals. It especially unnerved me today when I was the only one in my film class who barely cracked a smile during a George Carlin hearing, and everybody around me was snickering every few seconds.
I do like stuff like Monty Python, and just random slapstick humor in movies in general. I'm thinking that perhaps the fact that I grew up not a very vocal person (I barely talked in middle school) could have impaired me from being able to connect well with vocal-driven comedy?
If you guys can help me understand why I don't seem to have a funny bone for stand-up comedy, that'd be great. Because I'm tired of forcing myself to laugh all the time.
I understand the impressive part with them being able to analyze and put a spin on everyday things, and we see them in perhaps a new light (aka George Carlin speaking on the differences between baseball and football). But I'm watching and/or hearing people almost freakin' CRY with laughter over some of the stuff. I don't get it, it's not that funny, or funny at all (to me, obviously). I just overheard the late Mitch Hedburg talk about something of a duck walking into a store and taking bread. I thought that was amusing, until he said something along the lines of him being okay with it, and he rambled on with how he'd let the duck take the Pepperidge Farm bread next time. Okaaaay, so what? Are we supposed to form a constant image off of what he says and imagine a duck just clearing out the bread department? (See, that was funny in my mind right there, but I think this leads into my next point.).
I think my greatest annoyance with these people (don't get me started on Dane Cook) is how they say it like EVERYTHING that comes out of their mouth is a hoot, and people just clamor for the next thing they say like mindless animals. It especially unnerved me today when I was the only one in my film class who barely cracked a smile during a George Carlin hearing, and everybody around me was snickering every few seconds.
I do like stuff like Monty Python, and just random slapstick humor in movies in general. I'm thinking that perhaps the fact that I grew up not a very vocal person (I barely talked in middle school) could have impaired me from being able to connect well with vocal-driven comedy?
If you guys can help me understand why I don't seem to have a funny bone for stand-up comedy, that'd be great. Because I'm tired of forcing myself to laugh all the time.
