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
Almost any bit about travel or hotels. "Airline food is bad" "Hotel soap is tiny" "Taxi drivers, am I right?" Comedians are always on the road, so they're bound to have a few travel stories, but the overly-generalized observational stuff was barely funny at the time, and has only gotten less funny since.
anti-sjw content from like 2016 and up has already aged poorly and is just as bad if not worse than Denis Leary bits.
S tier. I can see a balding, red-faced man going "solar flashlights? Are you fucking kidding me? Uh, hello?!" in front of a brick wall at this very moment
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
Flying High/Airplane!
I'm pretty sure most of it is now wildly out of line, but it's just the dumbest fucking movie and i can't help but laugh
The Seinfeld telemarketer "gimme your number so I can call you back at home" "I can't do that" "You don't want strangers calling you at home?" "No" "Now you know how I feel hangs up" is outdated and also relevant with robocallers.
"I just flew in from Newcastle and boy my arms are tired."
Less offensive, more just silly. Never really watched Seinfeld but I am enjoying the podcast masters of our domain with Milo from TF and Phoebe Roy. One has seen it and one hasn't. Pretty good for stupid bits :stalin-approval:
