Funny shows you don't find funny? — Page 3

I found the Mel Brook's twins: The Producers and Young Frankenstein as funny as colon polyps... actually polyps are funnier.

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I'm shocked to see so much BOEING-BOEING on here! I was in love with that show!

Producers and Young Frankenstein.

Curtains and Spamalot too but at least I laughed more in those two than in P or YF.

Chuckled in Boeing Boeing and God of Carnage but didn't laugh out loud once in either.

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"I don't know if it was Laura Bell Bundy's acting choices, or if she was told to do them, but she made Elle come off very obnoxious."

Marianne2: My problem with her is that she's somewhat goofy-looking, as is her voice. It's especially evident on the DVD, where you get a lot of unflattering close-ups. She just doesn't scream Beverly Hills princess. I thought her blonde sorority sister had the better look (and speaking voice) for Elle.

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I didn't find Spelling Bee funny. Cute maybe, but I never really laughed.

Same for the recent revival of Blithe Spirit. I enjoyed the production, only chuckled a few times though.

Rock of Ages, The Toxic Avenger, and the first act of Evil Dead: The Musical. (Not that act 2 was better, I just walked out at intermission.)

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The Toxic Avenger. I tried REALLY hard to like this one but didn't. The people sitting around me were REALLY enjoying it, but it nothing for me.

Boeing Boeing, except for Mark Rylance and Mary McCormack, who I adored, but on the whole i just didn't find it funny.

Shrek.

Wicked - The actual lines aren't funny to me, and the real cheesy ones make me cringe, but if the performers are good and funny enough to make a certain line work, then I'll laugh. (Examples: The catfight scene, when Elphaba is yelling at Dorothy, "There's no place like home," pretty much any Wizard of Oz reference).

I want to give Jordan Catalano a tounge bath for his description of THE PRODUCERS. And I love old-time vaudeville shtick.

I have a very odd sense of humor and the majority of the comedies (or musical comedies) today I am at best only mildly amused by. Some that come to mind are THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, GOD OF CARNAGE, ALLERGISTS' WIFE and SPELLING BEE (I love William Finn, but thought this show unendurable).

A special case is ENTER LAUGHING at the York last season. It was supposed to be this tuneful funny show, yet aside from the terrific Josh Grisetti, I thought the show deadly. Grisetti's character was supposed to be this adorable Jewish noodnick who wants to be an actor and puts the sucessful make on a number of beautiful women. But as written, the character came across as a slimy and smugly obnoxious creep. I kept hoping that one girl on the recieving end of his leers would have kicked him in the balls. The score is known for "The Butler's Song" an -oh-so-naughty catalogue of sexual references to 1930s Female stars that if you hear it once, it's cute. Hearing it again, it's stale.

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Updated On: 8/4/09 at 05:08 PM

I don't get how 'For the first time, I feel WICKED' (or whatever that line is) is funny. I didn't find it funny. Not one bit.

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Jazzy --- I think that line only works if its done right. When I saw the tour, Carmen Cusack said it in a VERY over the top sexual way lol and it got a laugh.

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All I heard for quite some time was how funny and touching Spelling Bee was. I went, I saw, I fell asleep for three minutes. I NEVER sleep at the theatre, but that score (some of the clunkiest melodies I've ever heard) combined with POOR direction (when the children became others' parents, I was completely lost (that should NOT happen) led to a sum of terrible.

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I guess I'm the only one who actually LIKED The 39 Steps.