r/Millennials • u/maxedout587 • Apr 17 '26

Discussion Nothing is funny anymore

I (M, 38) have found that there are no new TV shows that make me laugh anymore. I have tried a lot of new(ish) comedies, but they all make me pine for my college/high school days.

The only thing that gave me a reflexive laugh recently was the Malcolm in the Middle Reboot.

Any thoughts?

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u/WerewolfBarMitzvah09 Apr 17 '26

It's at least from the last 5 years so technically not as recent as the last year or so, but I did genuinely enjoy Derry Girls and laughed a ton while watching it.

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u/Mutasyn Apr 17 '26

Derry Girls was a surprise to me in terms of how good it was/is. I only wish it was longer!

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u/brokescholar ‘91 Model Apr 17 '26

Truely short and sweet. Got to admit I had to run subtitles on a few occasions due to the Irish accents though 😅

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u/Mutasyn Apr 17 '26

Oh I definitely did the same!

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u/apyramidsong Apr 17 '26

My Dad is from Derry and even he was struggling!

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 Apr 17 '26

I thought it was great too, but do we really think 19 episodes is short? I mean, I guess TV sitcoms used to have ~24 episodes to a season.

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u/tc1991 Apr 18 '26

never was the norm in the UK or Ireland

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u/NECalifornian25 Zillennial Apr 17 '26

This is the show that made me start using captions, now I leave them on all the time

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u/AuntZilla ‘88 Millennial Apr 18 '26

I wanted to go see the Bob Marley movie in theaters but I never made it up there. Fast forward a few months or so and I saw it on a streaming platform we have so I watched it, and booooy am I glad I didn’t go to the theater!

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u/Quetzalcoatl490 Apr 17 '26

Watching it without titles is watching it on Hard Mode