How to adequately judge what is funny

Watching Garfield with Liam, who is four.
“Garfield is not funny,” I said.
“Yes, he is,” Liam said.
“Nope, he’s never been funny. Not even in 1984.”
“LAME!”
“Garfield’s lame, not me,” I said.
“Garfield is a cat who acts like a human,” he said, laughing at the TV. “That’s always funny.”

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3 Comments

  1. Kurtis 05.Feb.10 at 5:15 pm

    A premise which, at face value, is quite tenable. But nevertheless disproved in the very instantiation which prompted the discussion.

  2. Lesley 06.Feb.10 at 12:00 pm

    Well that answers a question i’ve had for many years. Who in the world finds Garfield to be funny? Ah! Four year olds!

  3. Tom 08.Feb.10 at 11:43 am

    This site is old news, I think, but it’s much funnier than the real thing:

    http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

    Let me know what Liam thinks.