You know, putting the punchline in the title has its consequences.

I thought the first two seasons were funny, when Sheldon's Asperger quirkiness was pretty amusing. But now that show has run its course, they got nowhere to go with it. Sheldon and Amy say nothing but stupid long-winded sitcom punchlines that definitely need a laugh track.

There's no longer any need for Chuck Norris facts. "Chuck Norris" is now the punchline.

Great punchline!

*downunder

Frustrating that this got cut before the punchline of the joke he started to tell.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:

im not sure where the punchline is.


When they find out they're pregnant.

>> ^bareboards2:

I'm guessing you are a man?
Because as a woman, I started howling in recognition of the lambasting of the whole Akin fiasco that was apparent as soon as the woman started speaking.
Of course, I am not the Arbitrator of All Femme Comedy. I'll be interested to see if other women sifters find this funny.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:
its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.



I don't think my penis had anything to do with how I didn't laugh. I got a decent chuckle out of the article I read yesterday that showed Akin dropping 11 points in the polls. I think the obviousness of the video and the saturation of the issue in the news works against it. Almost immediately, I thought "ok I get it" and I only gave it the next minute thinking there was going to be a joke.

Hopefully 3 months from now it will be a lot funnier.

>> ^Sagemind:

I'd call it funny. It's a Sarcastic face slap to Todd Akin's Rape Comments.
http://videosift.com/video/Todd-Akins-Rape-Comments-Represe
nt-Official-GOP-Platform
Get ready - there are a bunch of videos that are on their way dealing with this issue and Todd Akin is the punchline at the end of every joke.
>> ^PostalBlowfish:
its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.



I get that, I just didn't laugh. It was too obvious the whole way through. I guess it doesn't help that I don't find the situation funny. I'm too busy being worried about rich jerkovs buying elections for batshit loons like this.

I'd call it funny. It's a Sarcastic face slap to Todd Akin's Rape Comments.
http://videosift.com/video/Todd-Akins-Rape-Comments-Represent-Official-GOP-Platform

Get ready - there are a bunch of videos that are on their way dealing with this issue and Todd Akin is the punchline at the end of every joke.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:

its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.

I'm a man ... and I thought that was freaking hilarious! *dark to be sure, but most of the best humor is.
>> ^bareboards2:

I'm guessing you are a man?
Because as a woman, I started howling in recognition of the lambasting of the whole Akin fiasco that was apparent as soon as the woman started speaking.
Of course, I am not the Arbitrator of All Femme Comedy. I'll be interested to see if other women sifters find this funny.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:
its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.

I'm guessing you are a man?

Because as a woman, I started howling in recognition of the lambasting of the whole Akin fiasco that was apparent as soon as the woman started speaking.

Of course, I am not the Arbitrator of All Femme Comedy. I'll be interested to see if other women sifters find this funny.



>> ^PostalBlowfish:

its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.

its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.

With the high production values they could have actually put some thought into the script, I could see the non-punchlines from a mile away.

@vaire2ube, I'm glad you brought up Patrice O'Neal, because he is a perfect example of the disingenuousness of the "It's just comedy, folks" defense. There is plenty of evidence that O'Neal was a bona fide misogynist, with genuinely toxic views about women. But because he usually expressed those views humorously, any criticism was met with something like "God, can't you take a joke, you humorless feminazi?"

I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. Hateful views don't get a pass just because they're followed by a punchline. Good (and even some not-so-good) comedians don't just tell jokes, they convey ideas, and those ideas should be subject to scrutiny just as they would be if they came from Rachel Maddow or Charles Krauthammer. To treat comedy otherwise, to treat it as if it is just light entertainment that shouldn't be taken seriously, is to trivialize it. And the trivialization of comedy is precisely what the greats -- Bruce, Pryor, Carlin -- fought against. To anyone who loves the artform of comedy, the phrase "just a joke" should be anathema.

Patrice O'Neal was a very funny man, but he was also a bigot. His funniness does not excuse his bigotry in the slightest. And Tosh doesn't even have that figleaf. His act is shot through with causal misogyny and disregard for the valid concerns of rape victims. Look, that woman shouldn't have heckled him in the middle of the act. But his response was hugely dickish. Especially given the fact that she had just voiced strong sentiments against rape jokes, which in the mind of most considerate human beings would have triggered a little alarm to the effect of "Maybe she reacts so strongly to rape jokes because she is a rape victim."

I remember years ago seeing this expressed by Monty Python. Basically they wanted to make a comedy show, in a time when all comedy was based on a punchline, and their first thought was "Lets get rid of the punchline.." They made shows that THEY thought were funny, and had no intent of actually appealing to anyone else.

Speaking as a consumer, I think I've become pretty good at noticing, and I always feel underestimated when I'm "targeted".