Do you laugh at Jerry Seinfeld's jokes?

[rareboy]

No. Not of being dumb. Not at all.

Just playing on situational and existential absurdities that aren't necessarily commonly shared experiences by many people. I think, for instance, that if you live in Manhattan, you get a lot more out of his show. Or if you have or have had a cadre of friends like Elaine and Kramer and George...you will find the interplay and the humour far funnier...but not at a visceral level.

Jerry's humour is directed at provoking a different set of responses and connections than other comics are going for.

And that is what I meant by being more cerebral.

 

[Telstra]

^ well basically, his jokes are for the Manhattan inhabitants,
not for others living far away in a much more quiet place.

 

[gsdx]

For all of you who say Seinfeld isn't funny, what shows or people do you consider funny? Just curious....

Last of the Summer Wine, Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister (The old one. That new one is pure crap.)

I used to watch Seinfeld in the beginning, but I stopped watching when George's fiancee died licking envelopes. Then it just got stupid. The last sitcom I watched was Frasier, and even that got stupid when they put Niles and Daphne together.

 

[Essex Boy]

Aborted post.

 

[Essex Boy]

For all of you who say Seinfeld isn't funny, what shows or people do you consider funny? Just curious....

It's not that the show wasn't funny, it just didn't really strike a chord with UK viewers.

I don't know if Outnumbered made much of a splash outside this country.

Here's a clip.

And here's another clip.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

wot stand up wen neva say notin
_ha_

tinku

 

[MrRochesterNY]

I laugh at your clever writing skills too sometimes.

And I laugh at your writing skills, but I would never call them "clever." Far, far from it! A 40+ y.o. Aussie transplant wtriting and thinking like a teenager.

 

[FPNY]

amazing the negative posts for a show that was on the air for ages and made the characters household names.

serenity NOW

 

[Cumlover91]

I only laugh when watch seinfeld but not because of the jokes but rather the situations that unfold during the episode.

 

[sixthson]

Yes, but are you master of your own domain?

 

[nycguydowntown]

when Larry David was with the show it was excellent----not a typical sitcom----like his Curb Your Enthusiasm---when it's funny it's sublime---both shows-----but not a one two punch ---joke after joke---like a lot of sitcoms----

 

[Latimer]

I only laugh when watch seinfeld but not because of the jokes but rather the situations that unfold during the episode.

Kramer, George, Newman, George's parents and Mr. Peterman are funny in their own right, but what makes the shows memorably funny are the situations.

Also, the American sitcom has evolved so that the episodes generally follow a formula in which there's Plot A and Plot B which come together in the final scene. The Seinfeld plots play on this convention using the most wildly disparate plot lines and bringing them together in often absurd ways, and revel in adding a Plot C to further complicate the resolution. I imagine that the meetings that Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David and others had when they wrote the shows often started with suggestions of enormously disconnected plot lines anticipating how much fun they'd have resolving them. I also imagine that the shows were written as much for other sitcom writers to analyze and enjoy--the cognoscenti--as the general audience.

I know a few people in the business--producers, writers and actors, and I only know about Plot A and Plot B because it was explained to me by a sitcom veteran friend. Not too many years ago one of these friends produced what he described as a thoroughly mediocre series that wasn't particularly funny but short term made a lot of money for everyone involved. I was never inspired to watch it, but was once in a situation where it was playing in the background with the sound turned off and I knew exactly what had happened and would happen because the situations and characters followed the formulas so closely. I bit like commedia dell'arte I suppose. I told my friend about this afterwards and he smiled and said, "Great! That's what we're looking for."

I have limited experience with Britcom, but my impression is that a lot of British television comedy is outrageous, ribald and risque'
in ways that would be unthinkable in the US. Very music hall I imagine, although I've never been to a music hall performance.
I don't get Mr. Bean or Benny Hill, and have never seen more than a few minute of either, but I've seen a little of Little Britain and think it's hilarious. The Miss Slocumbe's pussy compilation that was posted on JUB recently was hysterically funny. I've seen all of the Fawlty Tower shows and think they're the funniest sitcom episodes I've seen. Both the British and American Office shows make me so uncomfortable that I find them unwatchable.

 

[Latimer]

Lunch with Larry David

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f9b4936c-7a53-11e1-9c77-00144feab49a.html

My partner and I have dinner at this restaurant a fair amount. After this interview appeared I mentioned it to our server who said that Larry David is not "Larry David" but very polite and low-key.

 

[Willie Boy]

I'll try my hardest to laugh if its funny

That sentence says it all. It really does explain much about you. That you have to "try my hardest" to laugh at something that is funny...... Well, its self explanatory. But something tells me you'll need an explanation anyway. Tough. Google it.

 

[rareboy]

Yes, but are you master of your own domain?

As I age...sadly more and more so.

 

[Telstra]

That sentence says it all. It really does explain much about you. That you have to "try my hardest" to laugh at something that is funny...... Well, its self explanatory. But something tells me you'll need an explanation anyway. Tough. Google it.

oh dear, "try my hardest to laugh" is a throw away line that doesn't mean anything.
There are so many clips of Seinfeld's videos. Which one is funny? Just give me 1 or 2, if you cannot find even 1, that proves my point Seinfeld is NOT funny.

 

[Willie Boy]

oh dear, "try my hardest to laugh" is a throw away line that doesn't mean anything.
There are so many clips of Seinfeld's videos. Which one is funny? Just give me 1 or 2, if you cannot find even 1, that proves my point Seinfeld is NOT funny.

That I don't bother to waste my time in explaining/showing you what is funny in no way proves your point. You have no point to prove. Nor do you have the slightest grasp on logic. But you are quite funny, especially when you "try my hardest" not to be funny.

 

[Cormac135]

Never watch an episode.

 

[Telstra]

That I don't bother to waste my time in explaining/showing you what is funny in no way proves your point. You have no point to prove. Nor do you have the slightest grasp on logic. But you are quite funny, especially when you "try my hardest" not to be funny.

So, all you want to do is to bother and annoy me.
mmmmmmmmmmmm banned soon ...

 

[pat grimshaw]

...there's Plot A and Plot B which come together in the final scene...

The Plot B is used a filler because the Plot A doesnt always last the the required 30 minutes time slot (not accounting for ad breaks)

... bit like commedia dell'arte...

Kramer and George provided the slapstick commedia dell'arte while Seinfeld stands around unruffled and being condescending-- rather like this character.

Seinfeld is about a group of condescending Jewish people being negative, anti-religion and being Nihilistic

https://www.google.com.au/search?cl...WuJdPu8wfY57qABQ#safe=off&q=seinfeld+nihilist