What has become Cliche in the Art of Comedy?

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#1 Carlos_Santana
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Name some things you think have become cliche in the world of comedy. I will start:

Midgets (or vertically challenged): I hate how people think "If a smaller person does it, it's funnier". I find that to be the biggest cliche in Comedy. I never really thought it was funny in the first place...

Guys getting hit in the crouch: I have simply seen this too many times in Television, Movies, etc. to laugh anymore...

Old Ladies: This one is a bit less cliche than the others, but I have also grown tired of old ladies saying more "ghetto" things like " Word up, dizzle" or stuff like that. Even Snoop Dogg himself said that.

Those Gamespot "who's your least favorite user threads: EVERY single time a thread with a similar title like that is made, half the people will post their own username and be like "...that guy is just an idiot". It really gets on my nerves.

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Race, sex, and work.
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#3 Greatgone12
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I think people who think they're funny but aren't funny because they fail at funny because they think that funny things are really unfunny and unfunny things are really funny, and then is becomes of festival of a lack of funny.

It's quite funky.  

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Talking animals.
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Talking animals. zomgrad
Ah youz crasy?

Talking animals=epic win. 

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Borat.
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#7 Veemon_X
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Let's see.

-Asian jokes (Benny Hill style)

-Stupid Humor in animation

-Bush jokes

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#8 Ryeferd
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I would say racial stereotype jokes have gotten stale.
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#9 quiglythegreat
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Borat.King_Of_Spam
How is that a cliche if it's only been done once?
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[QUOTE="King_Of_Spam"]Borat.quiglythegreat
How is that a cliche if it's only been done once?

Nope...Aly G Show. It has Borat segments.
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I would say racial stereotype jokes have gotten stale.Ryeferd

VERY. 

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#12 Edgemaster666
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Well, this is kind of off-topic, but Buddy-Cop type comedies are overdone a fair bit.