yo 3gdx- do you find 'My Name is Earl' unfunny?
First: Dig the 3gdx handle.
Second: I hate having to admit when I don't find something funny. It's not even out of a sense of duty to "all humor" or a respect for anyone that tries. It's just unsettling to watch something that's obviously supposed to be funny but isn't working. Unless there's a clear fix. When I don't know why a joke is failing, I feel suffocated. Probably because of some fear that I could write something and not know that it's a dud.
I haven't watched much of My Name Is Earl. Maybe 80 minutes of it all together. But not once in those 80 minutes have I even chuckled. And it's uncomfortable to admit that I can't tell you why. I can't tell you what's wrong with the show or what's missing.
And so, this isn't a critique. This is related to my comment several months ago on another post:
but when we don't laugh, and insist we do get it, we're lying, and trying to convince people that we know where our spidey sense would have picked up any traces of humor, but they didn't, and that's why the joke isn't funny.
I'm just admitting that I never got My Name Is Earl. And it's not because I'm above it. Everyone knows I'm willing to admit when I think I'm above something.
So I'm not going to say it was "unfunny." I just never laughed.
Do you feel the same about another Greg Garcia production in Raising Hope?
ReplyDeletethat's a good question. i've only seen a couple episodes of that, and i must say my reaction is about the same. so now we have a body of work and we can observe something: style that isn't tied to a single set of characters. i think this might help me see what's missing. thanks for the redirecting question.
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