Carlos Mencia fight

[Justice]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LakersFan247 @ Feb 15 2007, 09:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's different because in the music industry alot of the supposed 'fans' just buy off what they see on television etc and commercialing. Comedy is different because people buy off what makes them laugh etc.</div>Are you implying that humor is solely based on one's own feelings and not from experience?

 

[SirLaker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ Apr 20 2007, 09:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Are you implying that humor is solely based on one's own feelings and not from experience?</div>No...I am implying that the industry of comedy is better sold to viewers when it's funnier. In other words, people like what makes them laugh more...not because of how it's commercialized or only because it's popular or whatever.

 

[Justice]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LakersFan247 @ Apr 21 2007, 01:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>No...I am implying that the industry of comedy is better sold to viewers when it's funnier. In other words, people like what makes them laugh more...not because of how it's commercialized or only because it's popular or whatever.</div>That's fairly opinion-based. I think they're pretty similarly commercialized. That's the reason laff trax was created. They had to actually let people know when to laugh, because comedy is sometimes very poor (like in Full House, when Michelle says something ridiculously stupid and the "crowd" laughs). Most people have a pretty terrible sense of humor. People like Conan O'Brien go largely unnoticed overall compared to corny people like Jay Leno or Jimmy Kimmel. Shows like Friends run for like what, 12 f*cking years? That show was really one of the least funny shows considered to be a comedy. Then you've got guys like Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson who play the same goddamned character in every movie. I'm not going to say that there aren't funny guys that are popular, because there are (a guy like Chappelle is a good example), but to say that humor is less popularity-based than music is kind of silly.edit: I will say that humor has IN THE PAST had a more quality-based approach. Examples being Monty Python and Mel Brooks movies. People will most likely get the comedy in those for another fifty years at least. A movie like Anchorman will probably be forgotten.

 

[Rok]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>not because of how it's commercialized or only because it's popular or whatever.</div>Dane Cook.

 

[SirLaker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rok @ Apr 21 2007, 12:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Dane Cook.</div>Very good point. I do think his fame has alot to do mainly because of his popularity, but the guy is funny...I am not going to lie.

 

[Justice]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LakersFan247 @ Apr 21 2007, 02:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>the guy is funny...I am not going to lie.</div>That's debatable.