Humor Dissonance: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Showgirls]]'', there is an overweight performer at the strip club who makes a string of self-depreciating jokes. While the patrons of the club are in stitches, the jokes themselves are painfully flat.

 

* In Book 3 of the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'', ''Brisingr'', Eragon and Arya witness a group of spirit orbs turning a lily into a gem. Eragon points out that they literally gilded a lily like the phrase "gilding a lily" and thinks it's the funniest thing ever. Arya is only vaguely amused.

* Sometimes done deliberately in [[Discworld]]; most of the narration is absolutely laugh-out-loud, split-your-sides, pee-your-pants hilarious, but what characters point out as a joke is often just an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], [[Running Gag|Or Play on Words]].

*** Considering at this point they don't her like this has some....implications

 

* ''[[iCarly]]'' uses this in regards to most of what goes on the web show, although the incident that inspired the show had some fairly funny insults towards the [[Sadist Teacher]]. One episode two characters saying "Mom..." "No!" 10 times in a row on their Web show was presented as an example of their humor surpassing everything on TV.

* One of the causes of the downfall of ''[[Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip]]'': the fact that characters constantly refer to the sketches in the [[Show Within a Show]] as hilarious, when more often than not, they fall flatter than Kansas to the people at home.

* The Joker played with this in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' with an episode where he took a studio audience hostage and hooked Batman up to an electric chair. The chair was directly connected to a "laugh meter" and since he knew he would never get the audience to laugh legitimately, he pumped in laughing gas and had Harley read from the phone book.

* This is mostly averted in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' where Timmy wishes he was the funniest person on Earth: His dialogue doesn't change at all and everyone is simply magically forced to laugh at it. This trope shows up briefly with the jokes the supposedly funny kids tell at the start of the episode, though.

* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' has an entire episode of this trope, beginning with Peppermint Larry telling some jokes consisting of truly awful puns and continuing into a joke-telling contest between Larry and another character. Eventually said other character speaks ''[[Rapid-Fire Comedy|entire sentences]]'' in [[Hurricane of Puns|nothing but puns]], soon after which it curves in on itself, implodes, then becomes genuinely funny.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has [[The Quiet One|Ferb]] going up on stage and saying "So, how about that airline food?" This prompts everyone in the audience to burst out laughing, pound their fists, and even overturn a table because they find it so funny.

 

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