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

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • Multihedra [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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