TV

It isn't funny when comedian gets so much TV exposure that they run out of jokes and just stop being funny. For example:

Stewart Lee, stopped being funny around the second program of his six program series, the first one was hilarious.

Charlie Brooker, was really quite funny in screen wipe. A few series later, another TV program and Guardian column and his shtick seems more forced and contrived than instantly witty.

Billy Connelly, went from comedy gold to just saying "bum" and "fuck" a lot.

At least they were funny once though, unlike a lot of so called comedians.

Blogs and Builders

Even though my tone may suggest otherwise, I'm not someone who is convinced that their life is full of amusing events that need to be shared with the world. Neither do I think my prose is witty or clever. There are a lot of these blogs and generally they tend to be quite uninteresting and awkward to read.

Aside from this, people often use a blog as a vehicle for their malformed personality and it's painfully constructed, artificial internet manifestation.

Anyway, what isn't funny is being woken up on a Sunday morning by builders, don't they know that it's God's day of rest?

Music

Teenagers dressing in a way that suggests their musical taste is understandable.

Adults clinging to a media created image of hiphop, punk rock or probably the worst offender, reggae. This is not funny. Usually this comes with some kind of nerdy arrogant pride in the fact that they like a certain type of music. Fuck off.

Yokels

Someone told a really crass joke that I'd heard before. I asked him if him and his friend were from the countryside and he took offence; "are you calling me a yokel?" he asked in a yokel accent.

Maybe I'm just uptight and conservative but I don't really find crudely sexual jokes that funny, it is a bit of a crutch.

T-Shirt

I saw a girl today with a T-shirt that said "I only date musicians." I didn't find this funny but I wonder if she has only dated people who have been in shit bands. Or more probably it wasn't true and she has, at most, made a token attempt to learn the guitar herself. Rock and roll mother fucker.

Other T-shirt slogans which I didn't find funny include;

"I listen to bands you haven't heard of?", not sure if this one is meant to be ironically funny or if it is just annoyingly pretentious. Also I don't understand the question mark.

"If found please return to bar." This one is very common and very unfunny, seen a few people at airports with these. Not sure that I can think of anything that screams "I'm a dickhead" more.

Jammin'

I was at work a few years ago and a machine I was using kept jamming, my colleague starting singing the Bob Marley song "Jammin'". I laughed at this.

Fridge

My computer seemed to be overheating, I took the side panel off to let the air circulate better and it seemed to fix the problem. A friend of mine suggested I would need to put the computer in my fridge. I laughed, out loud even, and no, it isn't funny.

Not Funny

Sadly a lot of things that are unfunny are also about people who wouldn't want chatted 'bout on the internet.

I feel like being mean.

I sometimes buy lunch at one of those mini supermarket places. I hate to admit it but I sometimes eat ready-made sandwiches and sushi made from canned fish. What I find unfunny about this place is perhaps exacerbated by the fact that being even slightly hungry makes me quite irritated.

So this is it, probably sounds utterly inconsequential but, there is someone who works at the checkout who is quite enthusiastic. Enthusiastic in that American style of customer service where they ask how you are that day when really they don't give a shit.

He barks these sort of greetings at everyone like a horse racing commentator without really making eye contact and I suspect that it is his way of dealing with a job he probably finds quite soul destroying, either that or he is actually mental.

I hate it. I am desperate to avoid being served by him and the uncertain prospect of it irks me and I have been determined to tell him to "put a sock in it". When I actually get served by him I don't say this, I want to and might do it one day but it will create an awkward situation.

The other staff seem capable of being pleasant while ringing up an entire weeks shopping for people with bad enough taste to eat food almost exclusively from somewhere like this, so why can't he?