• dwindling7373@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    Have you ever seen like anything from Monty Python? i’m genuinely curious I know comedy is, obviously, subjective, but this comic has a distinctive quality and it’s hard for me to see it labeled as “shitty”.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve seen all of Flying Circus and all of their movies.

      Monty Python did absurdist stuff, but they didn’t violate core principles of timing and surprise. Jokes recurred or dragged at times without overstaying their welcome.

      A piece of absurdist humor still needs to be humorous. Being weird doesn’t absolve something from being boring or pointless.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t know what to tell you, if Monty were to do this it’d be dragged longer, the stern granpa would be histerically yelling and beating Charlie the whole way through and 8 minutes into the sketch an oompa loompa would walk in a suit and reference a line from 6 sketches before.

        But I guess everybody truly is different and that’s ok, I guess. Maybe.