Comedy should make you laugh...

I watched a program the other day called "The Rick Mercer Report". Yeah, yeah.... It was kinda quiet that day and I just put on the tv for a bit of "background noise".

Anyway, it's like some prime time comedy show or something. But I just find the "comedy" (if that's what you want to call it) up here in Canada is pretty much about as unfunny as you can get. This guy, Rick Mercer, is probably near the pinnacle of Canadian comedians, which is to say that he's less funny than those lame jokes you learn as a kid. Why did the chicken cross the road? So he could get the hell away from Canadian comedy shows....

Anyway, the part I watched was some segment with this Rick Mercer dude and that singer, Feist. And it basically is this guy who probably looks like every other douchebag white dude in Canada, acting like a total giant douchebag moron. It's not funny.... Like, at all.... Here's an example. He got up on stage with Feist and intentionally tripped over something as a comedy bit. Oh god, it's so fucking funny you fucking fuck face fucker that I fucking laughed my fucking ass fucking off... fuck.... !... I switched channels pretty soon after that....

Then on like Friday or Saturday nights, they have televised stand-up comedians. I put it on sometimes. And really, I know people are laughing, but fucking fuck.... I just can't laugh at that shit. It's like, what is the opposite of laughing? That's what I do when these guys tell jokes. It's like they're so not funny that it goes into some comedic deficit that you just can't recover from. All they ever really talk about is smoking marijuana and how dumb or fat Americans are.... Fucking snoozefest! But then, what's even weirder, is that there are people watching it and laughing their asses off. Like, are you kidding me? You guys found that funny? Getting shot in the face would actually be more funny...

A buddy of mine said that comedy is cultural. I suppose that's true. But I think that it also implies that one should be cultured in order to make things seem funny. Well, the comedians up here got a long way to go.... I wish them luck.