Saturday, February 18, 2006

Comedy; It is Some Funny Stuff

I have finally come up with another list of the top and bottom 5 listings, and this one is for comedy. For this list, I am going to exclude cartoons as they will have their own list down the line. So, without further adieu, here is the list.

Top 5 Comedies:
5.Seinfeld-I thought it was okay but due to the massive appeal of the show, I decided to give it the number 5 spot.
4.Monty Python-There isn't a single person in the world who can not quote a piece of a Monty Python sketch. The only reason it isn't higher is because some of the sketches were pure misses which dropped them down a notch.
3.Fraiser-This show is the smartest show on TV...or at least it was. Got cancelled 2 years ago, but it did have a good 11 season run. It won craploads of Emmys and is one of the very few spin offs that were better than the original.
2.Red Dwarf-Also one of the best Sci-Fi shows of all time, this show just rocks. Funny as hell and every season was funny. Movie may come out and if it does, it may move up to number one.
1.Married... With Children-There is a reason this show lasted 10 seasons. This show is one of 2 reasons Fox is still on the air and brought about the low-brow comedy genre that we know today. Even the critics who panned it for being too low brow at the beginning were praising it by the fifth season. The series didn't really get good until Steve Rhodes left and Jefferson D'Arcy came in. Any dysfunctional family show since then has drawn very close parallels to this show and there have been several deliberate knock offs all over the world.

Bottom 5 Attempts at Comedy:
5.Roseanne-This crap was supposed to prove that being poor could be funny, but it just proved that it is as sad as everyone with some money thinks it is. Creepy son, grunge daughter who marries her older sister's husbands brother, and she left home when she was sixteen to get married. The only thing that was missing, was guns, bingo, and another 15 kids to complete the whole stereotype.
4.Ernest(insert retarded line here)-Putting an unfunny character from TV commercials into completely ridiculous settings that make absolutely no sense. That sounds like an Oscar gold mine...then again I have just snorted a rather lethal dose of cocaine and my brain is currently cracking at the seams from all the hemorrhaging. The first movie wasn't funny and nobody went to see it so why did they make 9 more? Seriously, I want to know
3.Anything with Hulk Hogan-The guy can barely wrestle so they decided to put him on a set to do some comedy. What's worse is the fact that they got the worst scripts possible and got him to apishly work his way through it.
2.The Tom Green Show-This show dropped Canada's approval rating around the world because of its suck factor(both figurative and literal suckage) not once did I ever laugh during something Tom Green did. The only reason he is not number one is he gained some of my respect by accepting his Raspberry Award for Freddy Got Fingered.
1.Full House-God this show sucked. No matter how you look at it, there was nothing good to ever come out of this show. The acting was horrible, the plots were extremely weak, the endings were so sappy it actually caused tooth decay, and it spawned the billions of Mary-Kate and Ashley related crap that has been in existence.


Honorable mentions
5.SNL-The show's been on for 30 years and have acted as a spring board for a lot of today's Hollywood big shots (Chris Rock, Mike Myers) their mediocre (David Spade, Eddie Murphy) and their crap (Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon) The show has gone downhill since the mid 90's which is why it is not in the top 5.
4.In Living Color-This show pole-vaulted several comedians whose movies didn't suck.....well, Jim Carey's career anyways.
3.All in the Family-It proved that racism and bigotry can be funny....and actually helped de-sensitize the world in terms of racism.
2.Friends-I have them so I didn't really watch the show that much when it first came out but have been able to watch it more since it is in syndication. Just kind of hard to make a show about 20 something’s hanging out when all of your staff is pushing 40.
1.Any comedy cancelled by FOX-I have no idea why FOX likes canceling funny shows. If you want a complete list of them, watch the season 4 opener of Family Guy and add Arrested Development.

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