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Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025

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What's a piece of media made recently that you genuinely, uncontrollably laughed at?

Feel like I've been in a comedy desert for years and wondering if I'm just not looking in the right places.

Big Fat Quiz of the Year from last month was the last thing I really belly laughed at.

Tires was hilarious, as @cjet79 said. Also while it's not new, I just recently watched Derry Girls for the first time and it was quite funny as well.

Past decade - MDE world peace

The Tim Dillon Show during its peak (somewhere between 2019-2022) seemed made in a lab with explicit purpose of making me laugh.

Tim Dillon best hits in my opinion: the corporate steak house rant, 'best podcaster in the world', 'leaving austin', describing 'big mike' to Joe Rogan, the unaired TBS tournament of laughs material, his rant on gin martinis.

The first episode of Brooklynn 99.

Well there is this: https://instagram.com/p/DA8kWHdPBRw/

But for something longer format the rehab stories from John Mulaney: Baby J were hilarious.

Anthony Jeselnik is great, his jokes pretty much all follow the same bait-and-switch format, but they always land, the bit on Eric Clapton's son always gets me

Hundreds of Beavers

Ari Schaffir standup. Both "Jew" and "Americas Sweetheart"

The Netflix series Tires.

Gilly and Keeves skit comedy. Season 2 was especially awesome.

Made recently... hmm. I'm almost coming up blank.

I thought Banshees of Inisherin was great, but I don't think my laughter was uncontrollable.

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