Dame: "Portland is boring"

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Weird. The whole point of wearing tattoos is to add your flavor to your uniform, but Dame doesn't mention it.
 
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Sorry for Lillard that he has to deal with these people.
 
Can we add a "Painfully Unfunny" button to be used for anything Armisen-related?
 
BlazerWookee said:
Can we add a "Painfully Unfunny" button to be used for anything Armisen-related?
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Not a fan of this series but at least the Blazers tried something different on media day. It is better than that thing they did a few years ago where we watched them play video games.
 
These have all been very unfunny and awkward. This is the first one I've actually watched all the way through...
 
So it Lima, Ohio. Why don't they move there and do a shitty-ass show about free range chickens. Portlandia is about as funny to me as a prostate exam with a kevlar glove.
 
Portlandia has a record like the Blazers...10 games under 500....those guys really need to hand the Blazer skits over to Kingspeed....Armisen is making it all about himself which just doesn't work.
 
riverman said:
Portlandia has a record like the Blazers...10 games under 500....those guys really need to hand the Blazer skits over to Kingspeed....Armisen is making it all about himself which just doesn't work.
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I don't think they've been to the playoffs since their first season.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Not a fan of this series but at least the Blazers tried something different on media day. It is better than that thing they did a few years ago where we watched them play video games.
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I agree. It seems like a pretty good effort. And definitely different from the past stuff the Blazers did.

I hadn't seen these before--I watched a couple and you can definitely track the influences... the guy from Tim & Eric works on Portlandia, and this series is like a very watered down Steve Brule (which is from Tim & Eric) or Between Two Ferns (which stars Zach Galifianakis, who appears with Tim and Eric on a lot of stuff). It's tough because that humor doesn't work very well in half-measures... you can't really ask Leonard, "You've had three hair styles... what's next for your career?" like you can with Justin Bieber. Haha
 
Ed O said:
I agree. It seems like a pretty good effort. And definitely different from the past stuff the Blazers did.

I hadn't seen these before--I watched a couple and you can definitely track the influences... the guy from Tim & Eric works on Portlandia, and this series is like a very watered down Steve Brule (which is from Tim & Eric) or Between Two Ferns (which stars Zach Galifianakis, who appears with Tim and Eric on a lot of stuff). It's tough because that humor doesn't work very well in half-measures... you can't really ask Leonard, "You've had three hair styles... what's next for your career?" like you can with Justin Bieber. Haha
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Tim and Eric is some other worldly shit it takes a special kind of weird to find funny. Tim and eric are fucking hilarious to me, every time I have showed it to anybody else, they are just like what? I liked this particular one with Dame, way better than the others. I used to like Portlandia. Don't anymore. The way fred armisens comedy works is hit or miss with me.
 
Strenuus said:
"cringe" humor is the new "funny" ... it's a phase.
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Cringe humor, anti-humor, and absurdism (which is, to a great degree, what these pieces are rooted in) is much better than live studio audience humor in my opinion, and has a long tradition including Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman, National Review and lots and lots of others over the past fifty years ago, at least... and much of Seinfeld is this, too, albeit to a lesser extent (Curb Your Enthusiasm takes the cringe to the next level).

I don't think it's a phase. Although it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
 
Cippy91 said:
Tim and Eric is some other worldly shit it takes a special kind of weird to find funny. Tim and eric are fucking hilarious to me, every time I have showed it to anybody else, they are just like what? I liked this particular one with Dame, way better than the others. I used to like Portlandia. Don't anymore. The way fred armisens comedy works is hit or miss with me.
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I agree... I actually haven't watched Portlandia since the second season or so because I think it takes itself (even its mockery) a bit too seriously. Give me On Cinema at the Cinema (season nine starting on Monday!) any day of the week. :)
 
Ed O said:
Cringe humor, anti-humor, and absurdism (which is, to a great degree, what these pieces are rooted in) is much better than live studio audience humor in my opinion, and has a long tradition including Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman, National Review and lots and lots of others over the past fifty years ago, at least... and much of Seinfeld is this, too, albeit to a lesser extent (Curb Your Enthusiasm takes the cringe to the next level).

I don't think it's a phase. Although it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
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I still give them 24 wins and 35 losses...I really like some of their work...not any basketball related though.
 
To be fair this show is extremely popular nationwide. Hence why it's been on without being axed for like 7 years now.

Personally I don't find it funny at all. Granted there is some funny parts but a broken clock is right two times a day.
 
Ed O said:
Cringe humor, anti-humor, and absurdism (which is, to a great degree, what these pieces are rooted in) is much better than live studio audience humor in my opinion, and has a long tradition including Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman, National Review and lots and lots of others over the past fifty years ago, at least... and much of Seinfeld is this, too, albeit to a lesser extent (Curb Your Enthusiasm takes the cringe to the next level).

I don't think it's a phase. Although it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
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To me it's more like elitest comedy. Woody Allen was a comedic genius who understood even the nature of toilet and gag humor. Kaufman was pushing the boundaries in a surreal world. Portlandia is anti-humor for a bunch of smug professionals who read certain books, eat certain foods and now, even laugh at certain fringe situations. You get the feeling the same "comedians" would rip you apart if you said the wrong thing or wore the wrong shirt. That's a club I sure as shit don't want to belong too.
 
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