Honestly what is funny about this?

You really convinced me.
















Not.




"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

"Explaining a funny joke doesn't work. "

But explaining an unfunny joke works?

Of course explaining a joke works. It doesn't make you laugh, but it makes you UNDERSTAND why people laugh at it. It ruins the 'surprise' or 'funniness' of the joke, but it definitely works in helping people understand WHY it was funny. Jokes aren't always 'if you don't get it, you don't get it'.

For example, Ty making those weird sounds while golfing might be unfunny to people. However, you can explain that he's mimicking the silly sound effects they had in the old TV show 'Six Million Dollar Man', and after that explanation, the joke can be understood, even if it can't be laughed at (not that it's that funny to begin with).

At least the humor can be understood after the explanation - there are so many jokes like that, that ignorant youtubers just don't get, one example being the 'He never takes a second cup at home' in 'Airplane!', which is a reference to an old coffee commercial that used that kind of a gimmick - the husband can't drink more than one cup, because THAT brand of coffee tastes so bad, but when he is given OUR brand of coffee, he takes another cup.

See, how explaining a joke actuall DOES WORK? It's just that when the jokes are mostly 'meh' and not very funny, NOTHING can make them funny again, just like horses trying to assemble an egg that fell and broke. I will never understand why they thought horses could somehow fix a broken egg in that story, but maybe I could, if someone explained it to me.

Explaining a joke - regardless of whether you think it's funny or not - WORKS. Maybe not in 'it will then make you laugh', but at least in the sense of 'you will understand why others find it funny' a little better.

Think what's funny about this movie is how it makes fun of all of the characters in it. These are owners of professions in life that are supposed to be upstanding, elite, and supreme in society, but we see a judge who is very immoral and conniving, a bishop who gets drunk and says there is no God, a trust fund kid Ty who has a few screws loose, an obnoxious millionaire real estate owner who makes fun of everyone, and then there's the groundskeeper who has lost his marbles, the judge's niece who enjoys skinny skiing and going to bull fights on acid, the childish behavior of the tournament players yelling for Danny to miss the shot. You just have all of these eccentric characters coming together at the golf course, and really, you'll get characters like these at country clubs, although they're exaggerated in the movie for humor. There's a diversity of people that come together and humorous things that go on at country clubs with the mixing of the personalities, and I think this movie has fun with making fun of them all. It is the one liners and lines though that are the funniest. It's mostly silly humor so it's not for everyone, but it's definitely a funny film. You have to open your mind a bit and just get prepared to laugh before going to watch it. If you're not in a good mood, it's not going to snap you out of it by visuals or any grand events. All of the humor is in the dialogue.