Thinking about "coffee flavored coffee" and the golden age of shitty observational comedy
"Women take too long in the store" and "men enjoy DIY" are personal favourites, but I'm curious as to what other Jerry Seinfeld type bits are out there
Thinking about "coffee flavored coffee" and the golden age of shitty observational comedy
"Women take too long in the store" and "men enjoy DIY" are personal favourites, but I'm curious as to what other Jerry Seinfeld type bits are out there
The entirety of Dennis Miller. Never understood the appeal, unless it was supposed to be "if you understood this joke, that means you're smart too!". Which, as someone who did get most of them, definitely wasn't true.
I think in particular, it was easy to see how unfunny he was in comparison to MST3K, which relied a lot on referential humor as well. I can still go back and watch old episodes of MST3K and find them humorous, whereas I'd rather suffer the fate of the proscribed under Sulla than watch or listen to a Dennis Miller bit.
To say nothing of that weird year where they put him in the Monday Night Football booth. I kept wishing for Dan Dierdorf to pick him up and throw him out of the booth window while he made a 'defenestration of Dallas' joke.
I know this wasn't exactly your question, but I really fucking hate Dennis Miller and always have.
MST3K was referencial humor that wasn't pretentious. The didn't care if you got it and neither did you, shit was funny even if you had no idea what they were referencing.
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Plus they had a lot more jokes per minute, whereas Miller's always felt like they took too long.
It’s wild to watch how slowly the really old, like 1st season, MST3K moved compared to the even marginally later ones.
I heard Joel talking about how it was not only a conscious decision to up the number of jokes per minute, but it was something they were hugely focused on.
I don’t remember where I heard it, maybe his interview with Jerry Seinfeld (which is the best episode of Comedians in Cars getting Coffee IMO), but it was super interesting