It’s a comedy strip, and humour is extremely subjective. What works for one person won’t work for someone else.
I see it as intentionally being 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 important parts 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 completely insubstantial, and so for me 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.
Maybe this community can start putting the artist/source in the post title. Unless that becomes a rule I doubt that would happen though.
What don’t you like about C&H?
It’s a comedy strip, and humour is extremely subjective. What works for one person won’t work for someone else.
I see it as intentionally being 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 important parts 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 completely insubstantial, and so for me it’s a pass.
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
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.
The real problem with Cyanide and Happiness is that it’s just a shadow of Rob DenBleyker’s former greatness… Joe Zombie!