The Taste Barometer: Comedy Edition

I like listening to 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back, which is a wonderful podcast about terrible books hosted by Mike Nelson (MST3k) and Conor Lastowka (Rifftrax). One of the things they do is employ a taste barometer, either by disclosing their own likes and dislikes or by analyzing Amazon reviewers’ ratings for different products.

Humor is subjective. Since I (ostensibly) write comedy books, I thought I might throw out a taste barometer of my own, so you can determine whether our comedic tastes are aligned before you spend $3 on an ebook.

Things I Find Funny:

• Arrested Development
• Barry
• Big Lebowski
• Bo Burnham’s Inside
• Bojack Horseman
• Cabin in the Woods
• Conan O’Brien
• Dave Chapelle
• Douglas Adams Books
• Edgar Wright Movies
• Existence (generally)
• Gallows Humor
• Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace
• Gene Wilder
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Letterkenny
• Lonely Island
• Maria Bamford
• Mel Brooks Movies
• Mitch Hedberg
• Mystery Science Theater
• Paramount green-lighting every Star Trek concept except Captain Worf
• People falling down
• People going all in with the MyPillow guy
• Salem Witch Museum in Salem, MA (if you know, you know)
• Silicon Valley
• Ted Lasso
• Terry Pratchett Books
• The Church Scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Venture Bros.
• What We Do in the Shadows

Things I Don’t Find Funny:

• Adam Sandler
• America’s Funniest Home Videos
• Big Bang Theory
• Bro Movies (Animal House, The Hangover, Porky’s, etc.)
• Calvin peeing on things
• Dave Barry Books
• Dilbert
• Discrimination (let the record show I’m against it)
• Ghostbusters (any)
• Infinite Jest
• Jeff Dunham
• Jimmy Fallon
• Juno
• Laffy Taffy jokes
• MCU movie trailers
• New Yorker cartoons
• Saying “my wife” in a Borat voice
• Sarah Cooper
• The Office (I’m sorry)
• The Simpsons (post 1995)
• Stephen Colbert (post Colbert Report)
• Two and a Half Men
• Videos of kids being precocious

There ya go. Compare away.

Note: This list is a product of the time it was posted. Don’t yell at me when someone I find funny pulls a Louis CK.