Old people are not funny

dingoes8 said:
Don't get me wrong, I love Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield. I don't mean old comedians.

I'm sick of tv and movies making a joke out of an elderly person acting like they're hip and young. Or giving an old character a sex drive and waiting for the hilarity to ensue. It's disrespectful, but that's not the problem. Offensive things can be funny. But there isn't any actual humor, the pure fact that an old person doing something they normally don't is expected to be funny. An old man wearing a beanie and saying "Dude!" wasn't funny the first time they did it, it certainly isn't now that it's been done to death.

The worst offender is Eugene Levy. Almost every movie role of his in the past 5-6 years had him trying to act hip as one of the big laughs in the commercials. American Pie, Bringing Down the House, and that Olsen twins movie.

Agree/Disagree?

Skryche said:

Ohhh. You have that ad too? It's positively disturbing.

How about the rapping grandma from the Wedding Singer?

NOT FUNNY

thejuanupsman said:
Sigh. I know you are really young, but come on Eugene Levy is not Old. And he was never hip so it has nothing to do with age. And yeah his unhipness trying to be hip is funny sometimes. I wont comment about tv or movies but most of the old people I know in real life are funny. I think the people with no sense of humor die young.
[Edited on Jun 30, 2004 by thejuanupsman]

dingoes8 said:

Oh, I know he's not old old, it's more that he's an uptight Jewish man trying to be cool. And he was probably one of the few parts I laughed at in American Pie, when I first saw it. It's just, I watched SCTV reruns growing up, so I respect him a lot, and now it just seems like he's the go-to guy for that type of tired humor. I know he's still doing other roles like A Mighty Wind, and I'll never begrudge an actor for taking a job, cuz they're just trying to put food on the table, but I just think these roles are getting old and below him. I just wish he got offered better parts.

Gwendolyn said:
I hate those Six Flags commercials. Mainly because it's obviously a young person made up to look like an old man, and his face and body don't match and it's just really creepy.

dingoes8 said:
The worst offender is Eugene Levy. Almost every movie role of his in the past 5-6 years had him trying to act hip as one of the big laughs in the commercials. American Pie, Bringing Down the House, and that Olsen twins movie.