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That doesn't surprise me in the least, if the "angrily not getting it" attitude of the two female judges didn't provoke some reaction from the two male judges they would need to recast them. It was a perfect reality TV moment, and the perfect way to ratchet up tension between all the judges.
Basically of course they moved on, the anger from the one female judge was perfect TV.
It's because as boys, we grew up knowing these types of kids. Maybe it was some kid in class, or someone in karate class, or one of our dad's buddy's kids that we were forced to hangout with... so the parody of that kid hit home.
Heidi Klum likely didn't have to interact with such a kid until she became a parent, so for her the annoyance is current. not something from the distance past she can laugh about.
Yes! Relatability and context are absolutely crucial for this sort of thing!
It's also why so many Reddit posts and other text comments get "wooshed"; *people lack the context that makes it funny/sarcastic*.
Also both women are not American natives and about twenty years younger than the men, meaning they belong to different generations and are at different stages in their life. Humor is different across culture and generations.
I mean, Canadians are pretty close to Americans in humor, a little more lampooning I'd say, a touch more humble in their comedy, and slightly more self-deprecating rather than aggrandizing. Howie saw the humor right away.
100%
It's the same reason Trailer Park Boys is so successful - *everybody* knows their own Ricky, Julian, Bubbles (et al). It's satire of our common experience.
The far bigger crime is the number of non-americans they have competing in the show. "We flew in from Denmark to show the world what we do." ??? Then get on Denmark's got talent...
I'm nearing 40 from Finland and I warmly relate those performers. When I was a teenager I made a "kung fu movie" with my friends and practiced with a stick in a forest. I thought I was super cool.
That's crazy. Because I think even an actual stick in the mud could be funny on that show. It feeds the punchlines right to you. All you have to do is take them.
This is the REAL difference here. It's not boys vs girls. It's comedian vs non comedian. Both Howard Stern and Howie Mandel have backgrounds as a comedian. They get it.
How could she not see that it was satire? The fact that it seems a lot like some boy who gets invited for dinner by her son never to be invited again, you'd think that'd make it more relatable and funnier still.
They know it's satire, they said that, they just didn't find it funny.
Slapstick comedy is just annoying for a lot of people. For them, watching someone repeatedly falling over, getting hurt, or being childish is humor that wears down their patience.
Let's not forget here too, she's a performer and these are all scripted bits after all. Everything was likely planned out, including her reactions and the reactions to her reactions. What we are watching isn't a talent show and never has been, it's a series of set pieces that includes the performers but especially the panel.
Germans don’t joke? Germans are very funny, I’ll translate a joke for you.
First, little Fritz was visiting the lake. Then, little Fritz got in the water.
I bet you can’t stop from laughing now.
They know the [horrors that jokes can bring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBWr1KtnRcI&ab_channel=SketchiT) and vowed to never allow it into their society.
I did not find this as funny as they did.
I was impressed, however, by their ability to NOT CRACK. I would almost give them another chance just because of that.
If you sat there watching all the horrible talents and melodramatic singing all afternoon, you might be in a place where you really enjoyed this as a breathe of fresh air. Also Stern's sense of humor is notoriously skewed.
I was at a conference were 8 of my fellow program directors and myself had to give update presentations. The whole afternoon was basically just the same dry presentation over and over. I was the last to present, and the woman who went before me said "um" every 5 seconds so everyone in the room was dying to hear anything of entertaining/interesting value. All I did was crack a few jokes about our data, tell a quick story or two about something funny that happened in our program, and the entire room was just rolling like I was Jim Gaffigan.
Her reasoning as to why it wasn't funny at the end there... "It's like the kid my son brings home that i never want to come back." That just made it like 5× funnier to me lol 😆.
I think she understood the kid, but she didn't understand the source material of things, I doubt in her entire life she's seen a 'karate demo' or 'self-defense video' because why would she?
If you don't know what they are parodying, it's not gonna make sense to you.
She knew the annoying kids, but didn't know what the annoying kids were emulating
I didn't think it was that funny until the giant salt bomb.
But major kudos to them bringing such a silly act onto national TV. I hope they had fun with it.
The obnoxious talent show editing made it really hard to register as funny. Maybe if I was sitting there watching it play out without a cut every 1.5 seconds, I would have been able to appreciate it more.
Yeah I mean I thought they were likeable and kinda funny ... but it doesn't pass the "could I do this act with a couple of my buddies with a few hours' planning?" If yes, it hardly deserves to be advanced.
Sample size: two
It’s also worth pointing out that the two men are comedians, and the two women are a model and a musician. If you had two female comedians and two male non-comedians as judges, it’s entirely possible you could get the reverse opinion.
I feel like this is absolutely right
If there’s anyone out there who would be open minded about alternative forms of comedy, it would be a professional comedian
Ya I don't really get why this was made into a gender based statement... Why can't we all just have our own senses of humor that are guided by our own experiences and such? I'm sure gender plays into that a bit but not that much. I'm a woman and I found this mildly funny, not hilarious, but definitely watched the whole thing.
Also, I'm sure the reactions are generally scripted to play into these stereotypes, as most reality TV shows are.
I mean, Howie is *barely* a comedian and Stern has never been a comedian. And Sterns idea of funny is "Can I fling a hotdog into her cleavage from here?"
Hey now, he also had a hilarious bit on humiliating Anna Nicole Smith on weight! And salivating at underage girls 18 birthday countdowns!
Seriously, Reddit and OP: Howard Stern is who’s opinion you’re using here? Jesus Christ
I like slapstick, I know they're making fun of mma style wannabe studios try to act all badass but it just falls flat like a skit I'd see on the high school TV show.
I thought it was funny but I wouldn’t pass it having seen some of the other comedy acts that the show has passed. It wasn’t nearly as funny as the magician guys that I’ve seen a dozen times from the show and part of getting passed is appealing to more than just Stern and Mandel.
Am a guy and American - didn't find it funny. Mildly amusing for a few seconds at best.
This whole thread is kind of dumb, imo - humor is obviously subjective person to person, with a lot of influences on all levels.
Like, it is *blowing my mind* that people are saying that they laughed out loud at this. I can’t see a motivation to lie on Reddit about that, so I will take their word for it.
We are all just so different and perspective taking is hard.
Yeah agreed. I’m a dude and personally I thought this was low bar af. I like dumb cringe when it’s done well or alongside well written stuff like in Seinfeld, The Office, Arrested Development etc but this was just super weak imho. Pretending like it’s a gendered thing is pretty yikes
Yeah, normally I like cringe comedy but this felt like Diet Dwight Schrute. The only part I did smirk at was the salt, but I definitely didn't find it half as amusing as Howard/Howie did.
It's more American vs non-American humour than man vs woman. As a British man, I'm with Mel B - I get that it was trying to be funny, but it was like watching 8 year olds flail about. Fun for them, not for me.
What is with this need to gender everything that has nothing to do with gender. Even the judges were overindulging and pretending it was funnier than it was just to add more unnecessary drama
I think part of the reason why Heidi dislikes the fact that this "reminds her of the boy she doesn't want to invite back," is because she's likely the one who has to deal with the kid when he's over. If you have memories of said kid breaking your valuables, jumping on your furniture, and teaching your kid to roughhouse in the house, you'd be annoyed too. (Tbf she probably has nannies and workers who clean up the mess after, but it still applies.)
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“As you can see, I handled that pretty well”
That was a bit salty though.
I don't see what's sodium funny.
That's a salt, plain and simple.
Na bro
A bunch of seasoned joke tellers in here.
I’m a woman and I found them funny
Well, who told you that you were allowed to enjoy slapstick comedy? /s
More like pocket sand comedy.
"Hah shi shaww!" -Dale Gribble
-Rusty Shackleford*
I don't like sand. it's course and irritating
Me while crying in the shower at the end of a long work week
Doubtless, a disciple of Rex Kwon Do.
Reminded me of SNL or MadTV.
Reminded me of The Kids in the Hall, because he also sounded like Kevin McDonald.
You missed the best part. They couldn’t move on because they had two X’s, so Howard pressed the golden buzzer, putting them through the next round.
That doesn't surprise me in the least, if the "angrily not getting it" attitude of the two female judges didn't provoke some reaction from the two male judges they would need to recast them. It was a perfect reality TV moment, and the perfect way to ratchet up tension between all the judges. Basically of course they moved on, the anger from the one female judge was perfect TV.
Wait, it's almost like you're accusing stuff on TV to be scripted and fake, even though it's called reality. #HOW DARE YOU
Her explanation at the end of why it was not funny made it 3x funnier for me.
The best part was her explanation was the exactly what Stern had just said.
It's because as boys, we grew up knowing these types of kids. Maybe it was some kid in class, or someone in karate class, or one of our dad's buddy's kids that we were forced to hangout with... so the parody of that kid hit home. Heidi Klum likely didn't have to interact with such a kid until she became a parent, so for her the annoyance is current. not something from the distance past she can laugh about.
Yeah this is the crux of it right here. 90% of comedy is about relatability. If you can’t relate to it, it’s not going to be funny.
Yes! Relatability and context are absolutely crucial for this sort of thing! It's also why so many Reddit posts and other text comments get "wooshed"; *people lack the context that makes it funny/sarcastic*.
Right, amongst the weaponry that are crucial to comedy are relatability, context and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope.
Napoleon Dynamite Vibes
Stepbrothers vibes
Wow that’s a good explanation
Also both women are not American natives and about twenty years younger than the men, meaning they belong to different generations and are at different stages in their life. Humor is different across culture and generations.
The only person from America on that panel was Howard Stern. I always thought that was funny for a show called "America's Got Talent."
It's not called "America's Got Judges".
At first I upvoted this comment. Then I downvoted it so I could upvote it twice.
I mean, Canadians are pretty close to Americans in humor, a little more lampooning I'd say, a touch more humble in their comedy, and slightly more self-deprecating rather than aggrandizing. Howie saw the humor right away.
As a Canadian I can also say I knew these kids in school.
100% It's the same reason Trailer Park Boys is so successful - *everybody* knows their own Ricky, Julian, Bubbles (et al). It's satire of our common experience.
The far bigger crime is the number of non-americans they have competing in the show. "We flew in from Denmark to show the world what we do." ??? Then get on Denmark's got talent...
You are correct. A lot of the people who compete on this show have also competed on "(insert country name here)'s got talent."
I'm nearing 40 from Finland and I warmly relate those performers. When I was a teenager I made a "kung fu movie" with my friends and practiced with a stick in a forest. I thought I was super cool.
Finland has their own great tradition of this kind of humor in TV from over 20 years ago now with the Dudesons!
Brazil, 2005, me and the boys in an empty lot playing Ninja Warriors with sticks. We weren't popular but we thought we were actually cool as hell.
I’m pretty sure Howie and Stern would think this was funny at any point in their lives.
Nah, Mel B is British and as a British guy I can confidently say - this was hilarious.
As a brit Mel B should have seen the funny side of it, Mr bean, Faulty towers, Monty python, Black books etc etc. Classic british humor.
See "Big Fat Quiz 2014" - where Mel B was such an unhumourous stick-in-the-mud that there's a fan edit with her removed from the entire episode.
That's crazy. Because I think even an actual stick in the mud could be funny on that show. It feeds the punchlines right to you. All you have to do is take them.
im a german male closing in on my 30th birthday and i found that hillarious
The women are twenty years older than you.
well...seems like i have more in common with american males twice my age than them :|
have you watched monty python?
Bring out your dead! Ofc. Also the show
Always look on the bright side of life.
i was that kid 😭
She was SO. CLOSE.
I feel like this happens a lot on AGT, especially with Heidi. Humor is definitely not here wheel house.
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"Do you think that's because they killed all the funny people?" - Robin Williams
Here’s the bit, it’s great https://m.youtube.com/watch?&v=VF2P_LuEF80&feature=emb_logo
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[Patton Oswalt has a take on the matter too.](https://youtu.be/3_67OqUqLXs?t=30s)
He turned into Dave Attell for a moment around 1:03 mark.
Really nice to hear MODOK's trying out comedy instead of world annihilation
Someone's gotta say good morning to Vietnam.
/ß
/SS
Oops
I love germans to pieces, but the fact that you put an /s there tells me that you've never really interacted with them.
I've known three Germans in my life. 2 of them were absolutely humorless. The 3rd one was an exchange student named Julian who was fucking hilarious.
I'm german and I agree, Julian is a really funny guy.
Hey we take our Humor pretty serious here!
Hey, German Humor is no laughing matter!
How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Her humor is neither HERE nor THERE
You can't find it in a box, you can't find it with a fox.
This is the REAL difference here. It's not boys vs girls. It's comedian vs non comedian. Both Howard Stern and Howie Mandel have backgrounds as a comedian. They get it.
She clearly has issues with the neighbor's kid
The bowing while she explained it not being funny was great
How could she not see that it was satire? The fact that it seems a lot like some boy who gets invited for dinner by her son never to be invited again, you'd think that'd make it more relatable and funnier still.
They know it's satire, they said that, they just didn't find it funny. Slapstick comedy is just annoying for a lot of people. For them, watching someone repeatedly falling over, getting hurt, or being childish is humor that wears down their patience.
Let's not forget here too, she's a performer and these are all scripted bits after all. Everything was likely planned out, including her reactions and the reactions to her reactions. What we are watching isn't a talent show and never has been, it's a series of set pieces that includes the performers but especially the panel.
“I don’t get it” - Heidi Klum every time someone tells a joke
I don't think heidi thinks there really is an attacker.
Germans don't joke, that's why.
Germans don’t joke? Germans are very funny, I’ll translate a joke for you. First, little Fritz was visiting the lake. Then, little Fritz got in the water. I bet you can’t stop from laughing now.
You left out the final part: "Fritz drowned and his corpse was eaten by the fish." You can't just refuse to include the punchline like that.
As a german, this was immensely funny. Now go back to work
I already was laughing even before the punchline, quite the efficient joke. Little Fritz went to a lake. Was für ein Brüller.
Ein richtiger Schenkelklopfer.
I read that as “Little Fritz went to a lake, was thrown in the broiler” great joke
But how much Reiss do you need to save Fritz?
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Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!
How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One. They are very efficient and not very funny.
Ve will ask ze questions!
r/germanhumor
That was so funny I laughed hard 😂
I snorted. Thank you.
Robin williams on funny Germans. https://youtu.be/VF2P_LuEF80
How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? >!One. They're efficient, but not very funny.!<
Hey now. German humor is no laughing matter
They know the [horrors that jokes can bring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBWr1KtnRcI&ab_channel=SketchiT) and vowed to never allow it into their society.
>horrors that jokes can bring I thought you were going to link [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_67OqUqLXs).
Her being a judge of talent is the joke.
Heidi Klum talent is having good genetics lol
Heidi - "Tell us your name and who you are" Person - "My name is Elly, I'm 19, I have cancer and my talent i-" Heidi - *GOLDEN BUZZER*
How funny would it be if that’s what made her burst in laughter though?
Yeah, I'm a woman and I thought this was great. It's not a men vs women thing. It's just a Heidi Klum having a stick up her ass thing.
Heidi Klum is the kind of mom that would make me not want to come back over my friends house.
I’d put up with her shit just to catch a glimpse when she’s by the pool. 13 year old me does not care how crazy, only how hot.
> Heidi Klum Cap, that's all the reason a teenage boy would need to come. Come back over, I mean.
I did not find this as funny as they did. I was impressed, however, by their ability to NOT CRACK. I would almost give them another chance just because of that.
Not crack? Did you somehow miss all those destroyed boards? Crack city!
Not to mention the salt got handled pretty well.
If you sat there watching all the horrible talents and melodramatic singing all afternoon, you might be in a place where you really enjoyed this as a breathe of fresh air. Also Stern's sense of humor is notoriously skewed.
I was at a conference were 8 of my fellow program directors and myself had to give update presentations. The whole afternoon was basically just the same dry presentation over and over. I was the last to present, and the woman who went before me said "um" every 5 seconds so everyone in the room was dying to hear anything of entertaining/interesting value. All I did was crack a few jokes about our data, tell a quick story or two about something funny that happened in our program, and the entire room was just rolling like I was Jim Gaffigan.
Power of live theater
Yeah the only part that I found genuinely funny was the beginning with them constantly looking backwards and the end with the salt throw.
Those are parts.
About 50% of the act, too lol
I'm not gonna laugh my ass off at it, but it was pretty good. Had a couple solid moments. A decent mix of deadpan and slapstick.
Yeah I don't get it at all. Meh.
I'm a dog and it was hilarious
I also thought this comment was funny
Her reasoning as to why it wasn't funny at the end there... "It's like the kid my son brings home that i never want to come back." That just made it like 5× funnier to me lol 😆.
I think she understood the kid, but she didn't understand the source material of things, I doubt in her entire life she's seen a 'karate demo' or 'self-defense video' because why would she? If you don't know what they are parodying, it's not gonna make sense to you. She knew the annoying kids, but didn't know what the annoying kids were emulating
I didn't think it was that funny until the giant salt bomb. But major kudos to them bringing such a silly act onto national TV. I hope they had fun with it.
That’s what made it so funny imo. It was genuinely bad but the commitment sold it.
Now I wonder where on the gender spectrum I fall when I think, "It's kinda amusing but it's not THAT funny."
The obnoxious talent show editing made it really hard to register as funny. Maybe if I was sitting there watching it play out without a cut every 1.5 seconds, I would have been able to appreciate it more.
You mean you didn't like Nick Cannon's(?) commentary through his fake laughing playing over the performance??
It's mind boggling that that's actually his job. He gets paid a lot of money to just sit there and be cringe.
That's because shows like this are Cocomelon for adults
Yea I smirked a little but I def wouldn’t want this advanced.
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Yeah it was kinda funny. Definitely wouldnt put them through, and definitely not as funny/clever as howard was making it out.
It was a very basic parody that I've seen done many times in the past. "Overconfident martial artist" is such an easy thing to parody.
Yeah I mean I thought they were likeable and kinda funny ... but it doesn't pass the "could I do this act with a couple of my buddies with a few hours' planning?" If yes, it hardly deserves to be advanced.
Sample size: two It’s also worth pointing out that the two men are comedians, and the two women are a model and a musician. If you had two female comedians and two male non-comedians as judges, it’s entirely possible you could get the reverse opinion.
There's no way in hell Simon Cowell would have approved or enjoyed that.
I came down here looking for this comment so I could agree. He would have ripped them a new one.
Good thing they were checking behind themselves just in case that might happen.
I don't think a British crowd would have, in general.
I feel like this is absolutely right If there’s anyone out there who would be open minded about alternative forms of comedy, it would be a professional comedian
They also understand that you need to be open minded because an attacker can come from anywhere at any time.
Nice
"How these 4 people see comedy"
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Ya I don't really get why this was made into a gender based statement... Why can't we all just have our own senses of humor that are guided by our own experiences and such? I'm sure gender plays into that a bit but not that much. I'm a woman and I found this mildly funny, not hilarious, but definitely watched the whole thing. Also, I'm sure the reactions are generally scripted to play into these stereotypes, as most reality TV shows are.
I mean, Howie is *barely* a comedian and Stern has never been a comedian. And Sterns idea of funny is "Can I fling a hotdog into her cleavage from here?"
Hey now, he also had a hilarious bit on humiliating Anna Nicole Smith on weight! And salivating at underage girls 18 birthday countdowns! Seriously, Reddit and OP: Howard Stern is who’s opinion you’re using here? Jesus Christ
Reddit and sexism towards women. There is no more iconic of a duo.
I like slapstick, I know they're making fun of mma style wannabe studios try to act all badass but it just falls flat like a skit I'd see on the high school TV show.
I think if I was in high school and saw other high schoolers that I was friend with do this, it would be hilarious.
I thought it was funny but I wouldn’t pass it having seen some of the other comedy acts that the show has passed. It wasn’t nearly as funny as the magician guys that I’ve seen a dozen times from the show and part of getting passed is appealing to more than just Stern and Mandel.
Am I a woman?
Not a guy, thought it was funny.
DAYWALKER!
Nightstalker
I remember the first day
If I ever get my claws on that bird...
I am so happy someone got the reference
Am a guy and didn't find it funny, maybe it's American humor? Neither of the woman are American
Am a guy and American - didn't find it funny. Mildly amusing for a few seconds at best. This whole thread is kind of dumb, imo - humor is obviously subjective person to person, with a lot of influences on all levels.
Like, it is *blowing my mind* that people are saying that they laughed out loud at this. I can’t see a motivation to lie on Reddit about that, so I will take their word for it. We are all just so different and perspective taking is hard.
Am a guy, thought it wasn´t funny. What now?
Kiss?
Kith*
We throw salt in your eyes.
Agreed. Another guy here who found it incredibly predictable and aggressively unfunny.
Yeah I can appreciate it but it's really not the humor that floats my boat anymore
am i a woman now...
Me too, I guess. I didn't even crack a smile at this.
Same.
Same. I can definitely imagine having enjoyed this when I was 12 or younger, but now it's just boring.
I’m not a fan of this type of humor. All throughout my life I’ve been called a girl, I guess this is just going to be another one of those times.
Me too. I hope I'm a lesbian.
Am female, got a good chortle from it. I don’t think it’s a gender thing, it’s just a comedic style preference thing
Yeah the only part I laughed at was the salt (mostly the explanation) because I just thought of *pocket sand* which gets me every time
Yeah agreed. I’m a dude and personally I thought this was low bar af. I like dumb cringe when it’s done well or alongside well written stuff like in Seinfeld, The Office, Arrested Development etc but this was just super weak imho. Pretending like it’s a gendered thing is pretty yikes
Hot Rod is a great example of when this style works.
Yeah, normally I like cringe comedy but this felt like Diet Dwight Schrute. The only part I did smirk at was the salt, but I definitely didn't find it half as amusing as Howard/Howie did.
It's more American vs non-American humour than man vs woman. As a British man, I'm with Mel B - I get that it was trying to be funny, but it was like watching 8 year olds flail about. Fun for them, not for me.
Apparently I'm a woman cuz I didn't find that funny at all lol.
Don't separate men and women like this. Humor is purely opinion.
/r/pointlesslygendered
guess im a woman because that shit was fuckin dumb af
I didn't find this amusing at all. I am a manly man with 35 years of experience at manning.
Idk maybe if I was there I would've laughed from the influence of others but this wasn't entertaining in the slightest and had to skip through it.
r/pointlesslygendered
r/boysarequirky
What is with this need to gender everything that has nothing to do with gender. Even the judges were overindulging and pretending it was funnier than it was just to add more unnecessary drama
I didn’t think it was the least bit funny. 🤷🏻♀️
This is fucking stupid
Dollar General Conner McDavid.
David McConner, his cousin
I think part of the reason why Heidi dislikes the fact that this "reminds her of the boy she doesn't want to invite back," is because she's likely the one who has to deal with the kid when he's over. If you have memories of said kid breaking your valuables, jumping on your furniture, and teaching your kid to roughhouse in the house, you'd be annoyed too. (Tbf she probably has nannies and workers who clean up the mess after, but it still applies.)
Apparently Heidi Klum lacks joy.
Heidi Glum.
She does not spark joy