Does it bother anyone else...

Am I the only one who found this movie thoroughly unfunny the entire way through?

are you saying hobo dicks aren't clean ?

yeah the movie title is meant to be as ironic as the characters portrayed in it...i did laugh three times during the movie though...first when he was making the slavery jokes, albeit if it was defense mechanism not to feel sadness about such a heavy subject...second time was at how silly and immature he was to "be on our side" at the "bar in the hood" in thinking he 'understood'...and the last time was when the two kids trolled him by pressing all the buttons in the elevator, it was such cute and innocent fun for them it made me happy...besides that the film was a very melancholic character study and I got to learn some things about the character's way of thought, despite how 'unlikable' he certainly was...very interesting and well thought out movie that I agree with you, is a very compelling drama...a similar themed movie that I liked even more this year and that I would actually categorize as a dark comedy was "The Dark Horse" by Todd Solondz

Wow ... I laughed to the point of tears at several points in the film. I've only seen it once, and have bad retention, but I laughed at the scene where he's pulling at the sleeping woman's face, where the guys are blowing out the candles in the church, and later start to sing, through the whole hobo dick scene, the porn shots in the family side show, the way they put down that guy with "no sense of humor", the scene where Tim is pretending to be a gardener and screwing with the rich couple ...

They're all uncomfortable scenes where a mature sense of propriety is undermined. Some of us find that funny at the same time it's tragic and compelling.

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I agree, this is a drama, or whatever you would call The Graduate - though, I think that was called a comedy too. I really thought I was going to see a Tim and Eric movie, so I was surprised, but I couldn't turn this off.

Tim is actually incredible in this movie, and I actually think this is one of the movies of the decade it is necessary to form a response to. Given that we have all of our physical needs taken care of, and are numb to religion, family, and the sexual communication between each other, how do we assert any form of humanity? Friendship seems a completely inadequate forum as does the work attempted here.

The movie exaggerates to make a darker point, but the more it does, the truer it feels. If I were as rich as the protagonist, would I not experience the isolations portrayed more acutely? It seems very real.

I do think that human connection is a choice, and in truth, a deliberate construct. If completely isolated from any need, would anyone make that choice? Here, there's only curiosity about making that decision, but it is never made affirmatively. That's a worthwhile character to explore, not an an enjoyable one.