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Ricky Gervais is very funny to me. I put him up there with Eddie Izzard.

Curb your enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Black Adder, King of the Hill, Archer, Bill Bailey, Mighty Boosh, Phoenix Nights, The League of Gentlemen, Reeves and Mortimer, Parks and Recreation, The Fast Show, Dad's Army. To name a few.


I also have a love of The Golden Girls, I don't know that I find it that funny, but because, like The Waltons or Colombo, it's a nostalgia trip and much like resting my violent mind in warm milk to gently simmer for a while.

As Mel Brooks said

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

I also have a love of The Golden Girls, I don't know that I find it that funny, but because, like The Waltons or Colombo, it's a nostalgia trip and much like resting my violent mind in warm milk to gently simmer for a while.

Your heart is true your a pal and a cosmonaut?

 Cheesecat wrote:

PredaKhaine wrote:
The only thing I don't find funny is Ricky Gervais.

Really? I thought Extras, The Office, his podcasts with Karl Pilkington and Idiot Abroad were brilliant then again he does a lot of cringe comedy which is trying to find humour out of embarrassing and/or awkward situations and insult comedy so it might (more so with Karl) so it might not be

your cup of tea.

You've pretty much nailed it

 daedalus wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

I also have a love of The Golden Girls, I don't know that I find it that funny, but because, like The Waltons or Colombo, it's a nostalgia trip and much like resting my violent mind in warm milk to gently simmer for a while.

Your heart is true your a pal and a cosmonaut?

Cheesecake for the soul...

PredaKhaine wrote:
The only thing I don't find funny is Ricky Gervais.

Both he and Russel Brand have the ability to make me grit my teeth just by their mere presence.

Big bang is horrible.

FoWPlayerDeathOfUS.TDs wrote:
Big bang is horrible.

Eh, it's horrible, but it's a boring horrible. It has that same problem that anything Steve Carrell or Ben Stiller is in, which is that it confuses banal social awkwardness with humor.

It's a mundane self-serving reiteration of "Tee hee, smart people are bad at being functional social people." I mean, it's a good joke told once, but when that's all you got, what's the point?

The only real noteworthy element of the show is that they managed to turn it into a lasting ordeal.