It’s a comedy strip, and humour is extremely subjective. What works for one person won’t work for someone else.
It’s also very intentionally a “bad taste” comic by design, and as someone who never enjoyed Happy Tree Friends or other franchises which use violence, sex or toilet humour as cornerstones, it’s already on an uphill battle as far as my tastes are concerned.
Of course, dark humour and “bad taste” have been cornerstones of human comedy since forever, and I don’t mind them when it serves a purpose. But Cyanide and Happiness seems to exist purely on bad taste, as if bad taste is entertaining in it’s own right.
To me it feels completly insubstantial, and so for my taste, it’s a pass.
That’s fair. I keep their website bookmarked but sometimes I wonder why I bother to check it at all. I think my sense of humor was a bit simpler 10 years ago.
It’s a comedy strip, and humour is extremely subjective. What works for one person won’t work for someone else.
It’s also very intentionally a “bad taste” comic by design, and as someone who never enjoyed Happy Tree Friends or other franchises which use violence, sex or toilet humour as cornerstones, it’s already on an uphill battle as far as my tastes are concerned.
Of course, dark humour and “bad taste” have been cornerstones of human comedy since forever, and I don’t mind them when it serves a purpose. But Cyanide and Happiness seems to exist purely on bad taste, as if bad taste is entertaining in it’s own right.
To me it feels completly insubstantial, and so for my taste, it’s a pass.
That’s fair. I keep their website bookmarked but sometimes I wonder why I bother to check it at all. I think my sense of humor was a bit simpler 10 years ago.
C&H had some hits years ago but yeah it does seem like they have to keep jumping the shark to stay relevant and it’s a miss so so so often.
That said I’d take 10 bad C&H over another bluejayoo