...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
The Unwitting Comedian
- 57 statements
- 10 feature instances
- 15 referencing feature instances
| The Unwitting Comedian | type |
FeatureClass | |
| The Unwitting Comedian | label |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian | page |
TheUnwittingComedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian | comment |
The world is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible place. I mean, it is just awful. Wall Street is bleeding us all for all we have, my wife left me for her Brazilian boss, my kids are shut-in, coked-up and in prison, and don't get me started on my knees and the crunching noises they make. They're really... ...what? What are you laughing at? This isn't funny! STOP IT! STOP LAUGHING AT ME!!! The Unwitting Comedian is the funniest person around. It's a shame that they don't think so. Maybe it is something they say or something they do. Whatever the case, the people around them seem to think it's funny. In more extreme cases, the things they say or do would not appear funny to the audience, but the people in-universe would not be able to help themselves as they Die Laughing. As for the comedian, this usually makes them the Sad Clown of their stories, their inability to be taken seriously making their lives harder than it needs to be. Sometimes they would take advantage of this and go into stand-up, becoming incredibly popular. Depending on how it is handled, the story featuring such a character tends to shift around the Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness. |
|
| The Unwitting Comedian | fetched |
2024-04-27T05:46:51Z | |
| The Unwitting Comedian | parsed |
2024-04-27T05:46:51Z | |
| The Unwitting Comedian | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_261c8d3f | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_261c8d3f | comment |
The Simpsons features Bob Denver on a stage complaining about people coming up to him and hitting him with their hats, which the crowd thinks is a hilarious joke even as he protests that it's not funny and it hurts. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_261c8d3f | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_266350ea | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_266350ea | comment |
Cirque Royale: Fred wants his skits for the circus to be taken seriously and make people think, saying at one point a skit of his is intended to be a meditation on how life is chaotic and meaningless. He's wounded every time his skits — or him — are called funny, sometimes to the point of anger. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_266350ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_266350ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cirque Royale (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_266350ea | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_2bbcacd9 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_2bbcacd9 | comment |
The theme to The Road Runner Show lays this on the Coyote: | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_2bbcacd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_2bbcacd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Looney Tunes | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_2bbcacd9 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_304d4028 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_304d4028 | comment |
Spirou & Fantasio: In Le Tombeau des Champignac, while trying to get oil in a Tibetan village, Fantasio ends up getting stuck in a stack of tires and falling down several flights of stairs, bouncing and rolling inside the tires until finally crashing into a pillar. He tries to get the tires off, hopping about, and slips and falls on some ice. A crowd of villagers who witness this applaud, cheer, and toss coins his way. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_304d4028 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_304d4028 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spirou & Fantasio (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_304d4028 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_468bebb0 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_468bebb0 | comment |
In Discworld, there was a man named Bouncy Normo, the funniest clown who ever lived. In reality, the man was The Bore and yet everything he did made people laugh. His story heads straight into Crosses the Line Twice territory when the narrator says that the despair of people laughing at him even as he begged them to stop eventually drew him to commit suicide. His hanging corpse was somehow considered an avant-garde comedy act by those who found him. It so funny in fact, that it stayed on the noose for weeks afterward. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Discworld | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_468bebb0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_a8729c90 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_a8729c90 | comment |
In the The Fairly OddParents! episode "Class Clown", Timmy wishes that he was the funniest boy on Earth, hoping it would get Trixie to notice him. Because of this, everything he says will cause those that hear him to laugh hysterically. At first it works, but Timmy gets annoyed when literally everything he says is treated like he's telling a joke, even when he tries to reverse the wish. Luckily, he manages to get Cosmo and Wanda to take him to Fairy World. Because he wished to be the funniest man on Earth, he is no longer funny off planet, and is able to wish everything back to normal. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_a8729c90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_a8729c90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_a8729c90 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b40554c8 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b40554c8 | comment |
Richard Pryor from Black Dynamite is SO hilarious, that anyone that hears him speak will laugh hysterically (except Black Dynamite, who has No Sense of Humor). It gets SO bad however, he tries to seriously threaten someone in jail, only for them to laugh in his face, not taking him seriously. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b40554c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b40554c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Dynamite | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_b40554c8 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b8e5dfd9 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b8e5dfd9 | comment |
The protagonist of Disco Elysium is a pathetic alcoholic cop in a ridiculous disco outfit, which causes problems when he's trying to get people to take him seriously - people usually just jeer at him or call him a pig. When screwing up these attempts, he tends to have ineffectual meltdowns where he screams at people for no reason or threatens to kill himself to prove a point, which only tend to lead to others finding him even funnier. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b8e5dfd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_b8e5dfd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Disco Elysium (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_b8e5dfd9 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_c3702c68 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_c3702c68 | comment |
Inverted for laughs in Zeus: Master of Olympus: if a city neglects the Arts, its defeated actors return from the regular Pan-Hellenic games with the report that they "moved the audience to tears. Unfortunately, it was a comedy." | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_c3702c68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_c3702c68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zeus: Master of Olympus (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_c3702c68 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_ca5d97f1 | type |
The Unwitting Comedian | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_ca5d97f1 | comment |
The Season 3, Episode 4 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror" features the "Man Who Makes People Laugh" sketch. Mr. Horton is an average, middle-aged man whose words cause those that hear them to burst out in hysterical laughter, despite the utter mundanity of his speech. This eventually gets him fired by his boss, who is desperately holding in hysterical laughter as he speaks with him, because his laughter inducement is considered obstructive by his fellow employees. As Mr. Horton laments the poor timing and goes into further detail on the misery of his life, his boss's composure breaks and he laughs incessantly as Mr. Horton confesses he sees no reason not to go out and end it all right now. | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_ca5d97f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Unwitting Comedian / int_ca5d97f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus | hasFeature |
The Unwitting Comedian / int_ca5d97f1 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.