Cunningham Muffins Commercial

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Originally Posted by Alex

For insights into the examination of what is funny I strongly recommend Steve Martin's new autobiography.

That was a great read. I bought it one getaway weekend just to have something to read (since I forgot reading material). I found myself thoroughly engrossed in his narrative about the evolution of HIS comedy and ended up reading the book in about a day and a half. I lent it to someone (I think NA, but I am not sure) and look forward to re-reading it some day. The parts about his time at Disneyland (there is much more than just his time at the Magic Shop) were fascinating.

I am sure you didn't mean it this way, but I wouldn't call it a definitive on all that is funny. It is a good analysis of the evolution of Steve Martin's comedy which could be applied to an overall review of comedy.
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Originally Posted by Alex

First, if you consider racist slurs to be funny, then yes, I don't have your sense of humor.

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I wouldn't have said anything in this thread at all about whether I found this muffin video funny and why/why not (and in fact, did not for almost a day after the conversation started) except that the talking had already moved into that realm with NA's and 3894's posts.

So, to recap:

This video, not funny to me.
The shoes video, not funny but still interesting.
You [ISM] "playing" a racist ass, not funny.
Other things, funny.

I had a lot to say, but I think this post pretty much says what I had to say.