^^ You said that posting gifs is not comedy. You said they could only be funny if the person using them created it himself.
Sorry, but when you said they’re not comedy I took that to mean not funny.
I think some people just want to be misunderstood, y’know, so they can bitch about people.
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ You said that posting gifs is not comedy. You said they could only be funny if the person using them created it himself.
Sorry, but when you said they’re not comedy I took that to mean not funny.
I think some people just want to be misunderstood, y’know, so they can bitch about people.
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Like I’ve said many times before, way too many people on this forum act like I need a fleet of lawyers to overview every single post or else they will find anything they can to bitch about.
No, picking a fucking cat picture that says yet another “I iz scared” is NOT funny anymore. Its been used way too many times and there is no originality there. Yes, I used a family guy vid…and to my knowledge, few others had before then and it was funny in the context I posted it in…ie. a big fat woman making a grocery list of huge amounts of food just like a news article we all read. I didn’t make it, but my opinion is, it has not been overdone and still comes across as funny as opposed to someone still using the same overused picture gifs from 3 years ago…yet again…which was my point.
Now, seeing as I am sure you will have your team of lawyers go over every single word looking for more to complain about, just send me the subpoena.
[quote]SmilingPolitely wrote:
Read.
A lot of humor is making quick connections. The greater your knowledge base, the better your chances of pulling ideas together. Plus, you need to have a good vocabulary.
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I’ve found this to be true as well. The quicker and more concisely you can articulate your thoughts the wittier they’ll be considered.
Anyone who has the pleasure of being friends with me on facebook from this site will know that I am quick and brutal, but for some reason the people around me enjoy it.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
[quote]SmilingPolitely wrote:
Read.
A lot of humor is making quick connections. The greater your knowledge base, the better your chances of pulling ideas together. Plus, you need to have a good vocabulary.
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I’ve found this to be true as well. The quicker and more concisely you can articulate your thoughts the wittier they’ll be considered.
Anyone who has the pleasure of being friends with me on facebook from this site will know that I am quick and brutal, but for some reason the people around me enjoy it. [/quote]
Only when you use enough lube.
I think the use of GIFs can still be funny, to a certain extent. Obviously, the same cat GIFs and so forth are fucking tired. But using a GIF isn’t that much more different than throwing out a witty comment or quote from a movie or show that makes a humorous connection to what it’s being used in reference to. If originality were the final arbiter for all things funny, most of us wouldn’t be funny at all. The same can be said for most comedians.
Richard Pryor is certainly hysterical, but he wasn’t the first person to joke about drug use or women or current affairs and use colorful language while doing so. Neither was Lenny Bruce for that matter. Rodney Dangerfield may have been the king of the self-effacing one-liners, but the self-effacing one-liner was around long before he was. If a GIF is intended as some sort of joke about a situation or something someone said, than it’s no different than any other joke. I
t’s how the joke is used that’s funny, and it’s how the GIF is used that’s funny. Personally, I can’t remember one use of a GIF that I thought was actually funny, but that’s just me. They may be different than most jokes because it’s a picture that one can hardly pass off as original, but most quick one-liners can’t be passed off as original either. A GIF is a joke like anything else.
I think a huge key to developing a sense of humor and a sense of comedic timing is not being so uptight. You also can’t take yourself too seriously. If you can’t see the humor in things that happen to you, how can you see the humor in everyday occurences all around you? Humor can certainly be developed, and one can definitely become funny. You may not develop into the type that can be a standup comedian or write jokes for the Letterman Show, but you certainly can become a funnier person than you are now.
Gifs are best used to complement text by adding a little flair to the post. They’re almost always weak when used as stand-alone material intending to be funny.
They’re best used for general entertainment rather than humor. It’s nice to break up the lines of text with a goofy 5 second image every so often.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ You said that posting gifs is not comedy. You said they could only be funny if the person using them created it himself.
Sorry, but when you said they’re not comedy I took that to mean not funny.
I think some people just want to be misunderstood, y’know, so they can bitch about people.
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Like I’ve said many times before, way too many people on this forum act like I need a fleet of lawyers to overview every single post or else they will find anything they can to bitch about.
No, picking a fucking cat picture that says yet another “I iz scared” is NOT funny anymore. Its been used way too many times and there is no originality there. Yes, I used a family guy vid…and to my knowledge, few others had before then and it was funny in the context I posted it in…ie. a big fat woman making a grocery list of huge amounts of food just like a news article we all read. I didn’t make it, but my opinion is, it has not been overdone and still comes across as funny as opposed to someone still using the same overused picture gifs from 3 years ago…yet again…which was my point.
Now, seeing as I am sure you will have your team of lawyers go over every single word looking for more to complain about, just send me the subpoena.
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OK, hold on, I didn’t know you’d ever linked to a Family Guy video. I’ve seen it done here and on other boards a lot and it struck me as the first good example of not really contributing. I think it came to mind when the birds were falling out of the sky and three times people posted the video of family Guy singing the “Bird is the word” song.
But as to the first part about gifs and comedy/being funny…I’m sorry Professor X, but in my time here on T-Nation it does seem to me like there are many instances where your posts start with “That’s not what I said AT ALL!” I don’t think so many of us are that stupid that we can’t understand your posts. Maybe you can use those lawyers to help you word your posts so that people don’t need to read them three times to hopefully not bring on your ire.
Hey OP, this post of mine is a great example of how to kill humor in a thread!
Good advice so far, Thanks.
Smoke a cigarette, drink a lot, go through a lot of shit, and make fun of what other people do that is dumb. Don’t make shit up, just exaggerate what does happen. And, learn how to tell a damn story.
Also, if you’re smart and have a lot of stuff in your noggin’ you can be witty like House.
Me, I was born nine weeks premature.
As such, I spent a few months in a glass box, just, like, growing lungs and shit.
It was during this time that I decided it was probably better to be clever.
It’s like singing: you can practice and get better, and maybe you get drunk enough to show other people what you’ve learned, but you should probably just keep your fucking mouth shut, 'cause you still suck.
I think it is possible to get better at it, but being natural at it is a whole entirely different issue. Remember that a lot of what makes something funny is delivery and timing. Ever heard someone tell a joke or story and then say, “Ah, well, Joe tells it a lot better than I…” They said the exact same words probably, but suck at delivering it.
If you’re a man, you probably spend a good amount of time practising wit.
Being funny on purpose is damn near impossible. Being able to add humor to a situation, or having a humorous demeanor is great though, especially when working with people or in stressful situations.
My one brother is a natural. He can have a whole room full of people rolling without even trying. My forte seems to be goofing something up in a way that results in people laughing and having a good time in the process.
Sometimes it just happens. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was when a foreman of the crew I was on was absolutely freaking out. He was just informed that we would not be getting a raise or performance bonus that we had been promised, and he was truly pissed. He’s tearing through the shop smashing everything in his path and somehow managed to get a lamps power cord wrapped around his ankle. He’s kicking this lamp around like a mad man, yelling garbled profanities and the fit culminated in him grabbing a hammer and throwing it through the garage door while flailing himself to the ground.
My cousin looks at him and says flatly but with a very genuine inflection “Nice throw, Taz.”, at which point the whole shop cracked to pieces laughing.
Stuff like that can’t be constructed or contrived. It just happens.
If you want to be fun and hip,develop a sense of humor through Irony.
I sit here and crack myself up all day.
That’s all that really matters.
I think first impressions are pretty big when you want to come off as funny. I have always found that when I meet a group of people, and start joking around and getting them laughing from the get go, it is that much easier to get a laugh out of them in the future. It is kind of establishing yourself as “the funny guy”, and over time even when you aren’t trying to be funny they laugh.
I liked the singing analogy and agree completely. Yes, much like singing, practicing can make you better…but that doesn’t mean people will ever want to see you to do it as a preference.
Yes, hang with people who have good senses of humor and experience more of life…but this is a talent much like every other gift we all do or don’t possess. Some of us have our strength and the intelligent thing to do is recognize what those strengths are and let them work for you…instead of trying to force yourself to be something you aren’t.
I know TONS of people who THINK they are funny…and there isn’t much more annoying than an unfunny person who doesn’t know it.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I think Professor X is a little off with the gifs not being funny. Though I don’t really go for the threads that turn into a back and forth with many gifs posted that don’t make too much sense to me.
I think the worst thing is when someone uses some key word then someone else links to a youtube clip of that word or something close to it being used or referred to on the fucking Family Guy
That’s much lazier.[/quote]
lulz
Unfunny thread is unfunny.
