by Blackberry. on December 17th, 2008

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What is your favorite style of comedy? (slapstick, satire, dark, etc.)

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by Over and Out on October 21st, 2011
I love comedians who point out what's funny about what happens in everyone's lives ... I guess you could call it "reality comedy".

There's a lot of humor in the world ... we just are so entrenched in it .. we sometimes fail to see it.
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by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on October 21st, 2011
satire...especially British humour.
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by lyonese01 on October 21st, 2011
I like satire, and way at the other end of the scale I like slapstick, but you don't get much of that these days . It seems to be 'out of fashion'
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by Inducted Kitty on October 21st, 2011
Definitely it would be British comedy. A good example is included here...

http://youtu.be/wZyqkuoAKxU
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by CosmicWunderkind on October 21st, 2011
Anything with Bill Murray in it.
1975 Feature acting debut, Jungle Burger
1977 Joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (NBC) for the show s second season; replaced a departing Chevy Chase
1979 First leading role in a feature film, Meatballs ; directed by Ivan Reitman and scripted by Harold Ramis
1980 Played the gopher-obsessed groundskeeper in Harold Ramis Caddyshack
1980 Portrayed famed writer Hunter S. Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam
1981 Re-teamed with Ramis to co-star in the comedy film, Stripes ; also re-teamed with Reitman who co-wrote and directed
1982 Cast as Dustin Hoffman s actor roommate in Sydney Pollack s Tootsie
1984 Became firmly established as comic star in Reitman s Ghostbusters ; Ramis and Dan Aykroyd both co-starred and co-wrote
1984 First lead in a dramatic role, The Razor s Edge ; also co-scripted with director John Byrum
1986 Played small comic role as the masochistic dental patient (first made famous by Jack Nicholson in the original Roger Corman film) in the Frank OZ directed musical Little Shop of Horrors
1988 First starring role in more than four years, Scrooged
1989 Re-teamed with Reitman, Ramis, Aykroyd and others for the sequel Ghostbusters II
1990 First credit as producer, Quick Change ; also starred in and co-directed with Howard Franklin
1991 Re-teamed with Frank Oz as a patient who drove his therapist (Richard Dreyfuss) crazy by following him on vacation in What About Bob?
1993 Portrayed Chicago hood to Robert De Niro s nerdy cop in John McNaughton s oddly endearing Mad Dog and Glory
1993 Scored big hit with Groundhog Day written and directed by Ramis
1994 Executive produced Confessions of a Hit Man
1994 Turned in small gem as aspiring transsexual Bunny Breckinridge in Tim Burton s Ed Wood
1996 Appeared opposite an elephant in Larger Than Life
1996 Teamed with Michael Jordan and Larry Bird in the live-action film Space Jam
1998 Delivered another tiny gem as a low-life lawyer in Wild Things
1998 Received critical acclaim as a wealthy tycoon in Wes Anderson s Rushmore
1999 Portrayed a ventriloquist in Tim Robbins Cradle Will Rock
2000 Played Polonius in Michael Almereyda s film version of Hamlet
2001 Starred in the live-action sequences of Osmosis Jones
2002 Appeared on stage opposite Sigourney Weaver in the Off-Off Broadway play The Guys
2003 Played an aging movie star, opposite Scarlett Johansson in Sofia Coppola s Lost in Translation ; earned Academy Award and SAG nominations for Best Actor
2004 Cast in Jim Jarmusch s Coffee and Cigarettes, a collection of stories that all have coffee and cigarettes in common
2004 Starred as an oceanographer in Wes Anderson s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004 Voiced Garfield in the live action film, Garfield based on the comic strip
2005 Co-starred with an ensemble of actress in Jim Jarmusch s Broken Flowers
2006 Returned to voice Garfield in the sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2008 Starred in the screen adaptaion of City of Ember
2009 Starred opposite Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek in the indie dramedy, Get Low
2009 Voiced Mr. Fox s (George Clooney) lawyer and advisor in Wes Anderson s animated adaptation of the Roald Dahl book, Fantastic Mr. Fox
2011 Nominated for the 2011 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
2011 Nominated for the 2011 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male ( Get Low )
Appeared on National Lampoon Radio Hour and in the Off Broadway production of National Lampoon Show
Left college to join the improv troupe Second City in Chicago

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by smoothy1 on October 21st, 2011
The funny kind.

I actually like most types of comedy. Hard to single one out above the others.
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by mama cass :) on October 21st, 2011
british comedy (the best)
anything funny.......really

http://youtu.be/su_o4Nvmr_M
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by Wynper on October 21st, 2011
I like cleverness, word play and satire.

Sometimes though Stooges or The Marx Brothers are just exactly what I need.
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by Galeanda on October 21st, 2011
Hard to say. I don't like when the humor involves hurting or ridiculing others on purpose or most sick/gross/violent type of comedy. I do like some slapstick or more specifically deadpan comedy like Buster Keaton or Harold LLyod. I also like screwball comedies from the past or when someone is where they aren't usually, I guess they are called fish out of water type comedies, too.
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by Beavis - the other white meat on October 21st, 2011
Satire. Beavis and Butthead, for example ;-)
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by Domari Pride on December 17th, 2008
I like situational.. ( as in black adder.. ( iam a secret dork...shhhh don't tell anyone... its not like anyone see the internet right? RIGHT?!?) and I do love the old comedies...so much more than fowl language ( spelling error intentional.)
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by ZackTribal on December 17th, 2008
I don't care too much as long as it's good. I do prefer a degree of taste, implications and wit like "Yes Minister" are brilliant but cynical satires like those from the comedian Frankie Boyle are hilarious. Then there's random stuff like Monthy Python with it's argument clinic and can coconuts migrate. So hard to decide...
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by I'm Just Along For The Ride on October 21st, 2011
Bill Cosby
Red Skelton
Rowan & Martin's "Laugh In"
Jonathon Winters
Dean Martin's "Celebrity Roast"
Don Rickels.
George Burns and Gracie Allen

The classic comedians who didn't need all the %$$#@@((()&** words.
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by righty1 on October 21st, 2011
Leslie Neilsen
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by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on December 18th, 2008
I like all comedy that is well done. and none that isn't. Let's not leave out pathos. I love really clever dry humor. Perfect for mopping up current events mess.

Slapstick is incredibly difficult to do now, because it has been so overdone. Hard to compete with Jackass. But every generation another brilliant comic emerges that can figure out how.
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by Queen of Hearts XOXOXO on December 17th, 2008
Improv.
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by SkyClad on December 17th, 2008
Improv for sure. But not so much dark comedy.
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by LadyLuck on December 17th, 2008
Satire and dark. Not slapstick - I'm not as into obviously funny movies or shows. I like to think about what's funny, if that makes sense.
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by Anonymous on December 17th, 2008
parody
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by ___ on October 21st, 2011
Parodies. Also, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Chaplin. Monty Python.
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by Ironhead on October 21st, 2011
Benny Hill and Mel Brookes styles.
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by Koz - Passion Perseverance Patience on October 21st, 2011
The funny kind.
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by Rufus on October 21st, 2011
I can only give a list of what I like

Sit-coms and animated: Seinfeld, Married with Children, Sanford and Son, Family Guy, Simpsons, Boondocks.

Movies: Super Bad, Grandma's Boy, Friday, Half Backed, Pineapple Express, A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazzing Saddles, The Hangover, Razing Arizona, Beverly Hills Cop.
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