I've been thinking about it all day. I really liked Zoolander, but I can't think of anything else of his I didn't find sophomoric and stupid. I also really wanted at least four items, and I wanted one to be of the form "This guy" with a link, and I couldn't think of anyone else.
Yeah, but their unfunniness is too obvious. Like obsessive Python memorizers, some people might be laboring under the delusion that Adam Sandler is funny, particularly after having Christopher Walken's funny rub off on him during Click.
I wouldn't necessarily say that. I think the writers are funny. Ben Stiller is funny if he's cast into an appropriate role in a decent movie. That doesn't often happen.
In any case, I wholeheartedly support your choice of where to redirect the link.
The second item can be funny if done well, but so rarely is, that it is essentially correct.
The third is correct.
The fourth is incorrect, at least in part: if you mean he isn't particularly funny as an actor, I might be willing to agree with you. Much as Ben Stiller, he is someone thought of as an actor, who is okay at it, but is much better at behind the camera tasks (though, of course, Ben Stiller is a much better writer/director than Sandler is a writer). The movies where Adam Sandler has a writing credit were pretty darn funny (as were his movies done with Drew Barrymore), and some of the sketches on his comedy albums are hilarious ("Joining the Cult" and "The Hypnotist" come to mind).
i would make the case that it is quoting Monty Python's well-known movies- holy grail, primarily, but also life of brian and something completely different- that isn't funny. a lot of the people who quote holy grail nonstop don't even know that flying circus exists and, in my opinion, quoting obscure flying circus sketches can still be funny.
The Wedding Singer, in which enough funny things happen around Adam Sandler that he gets some of the credit by default. Kind of like David Spade in the llama movie.
Python's humor comes from being surreal and weird. It's great when Python does it, but something can't be surreal any more when quoted word for word forty years later.
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I like Ben Stiller!
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I changed the link.
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Jim Carrey is only good as a straight man, such as The Mask, The Truman Show, and Liar, Liar. And he absolutely nailed Kaufman in Man on the Moon.
Larry the Cable Guy is the George W. Bush of comedians. Eeuurgh.
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Adam Sandler was in Mixed Nuts? Whoa.
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In any case, I wholeheartedly support your choice of where to redirect the link.
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The second item can be funny if done well, but so rarely is, that it is essentially correct.
The third is correct.
The fourth is incorrect, at least in part: if you mean he isn't particularly funny as an actor, I might be willing to agree with you. Much as Ben Stiller, he is someone thought of as an actor, who is okay at it, but is much better at behind the camera tasks (though, of course, Ben Stiller is a much better writer/director than Sandler is a writer). The movies where Adam Sandler has a writing credit were pretty darn funny (as were his movies done with Drew Barrymore), and some of the sketches on his comedy albums are hilarious ("Joining the Cult" and "The Hypnotist" come to mind).
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Ben Stiller seems to think funny is being angry all the time. Not so funny.
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