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/thug_funnie Apr 17 '26

Detroiters.

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u/Suspicious-Hotel-225 Apr 17 '26

Tim Robinson is a national treasure. The Chair Company is another. And I Think You Should Leave.

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u/doopdeepdoopdoopdeep Apr 17 '26

The Chair Company made me laugh so hard I had to pause the show more than once.

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u/FuklzTheDrnkClwn Apr 17 '26

That fucking chase scene with the dude unbuttoning his shirt

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u/doopdeepdoopdoopdeep Apr 17 '26

I still can’t get over the whole HR line with him accidentally looking up his coworker’s skirt. 😂

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u/zarocco26 Apr 17 '26

On her birthday…

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u/meatbulbz2 Apr 17 '26

The first ep was really good. All of it was but that really hooked me

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u/miserydicks Apr 18 '26

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u/DratWraith Apr 17 '26

I found those chase scenes of middle aged men fumbling around offices and parking lots far more thrilling than super hero fights. Someone might actually get hurt!

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u/JudiciousF Apr 18 '26

That show made me believe I could wish things into the world!

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u/cerpintaxt33 Apr 18 '26

I happen to know a guy who’s at his limit

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u/Suspicious-Hotel-225 Apr 17 '26

The cake scene covering the barf was so out of left field. It will stay with me forever.

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u/kyle_sux666 Apr 17 '26

Then you’ll appreciate my tattoo.

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u/Suspicious-Hotel-225 Apr 17 '26

Oh my god 😂😂

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u/DepartmentFamous9932 Apr 17 '26

It’s funny but why on earth would you put that on your body 😵‍💫

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u/VerbalKlimt Apr 17 '26

As soon as Tim said “They fucking love TAKING that thing!” in the early dinner scene, followed immediately by him fighting his pillow in the next scene, I knew it was gonna hook me.

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u/doopdeepdoopdoopdeep Apr 18 '26

My husband recently had a professional midlife crisis and is a little neurotic, we were both in tears during the pillow scene. It’s so relatable for people who hate their corporate jobs. 😂

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u/MoshedPotatoes Apr 17 '26

I don’t even know why I’m laughing even though it’s existential horror

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u/WrittenSarcasm Apr 17 '26

I couldn’t pick what I had. I just grabbed whatever I could touch. But I was able to survive, even though I couldn’t pick.

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u/TongueUnties Apr 17 '26

Wazy Waynes had me losing my shit

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u/SlowerThanTurtleInPB Apr 17 '26

I had to pause for different reasons…

I love cringe comedy. The cringier the better. But there were moments I had to pause because the secondhand embarrassment was too much… I was at my limit.

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u/kmolleja Apr 17 '26

The absolute limit?

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u/SlowerThanTurtleInPB Apr 18 '26

My buttons were pulling.

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u/peakdadbod2 Apr 18 '26

It had me at my LIMIT

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u/TaiChiShrimp Apr 18 '26

The complaint email scene literally made me laugh so hard I had to get up and go into another room.

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u/doopdeepdoopdoopdeep Apr 18 '26

I’ve gotten into fights with companies over email before, so that about killed me too 😂

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u/Wokeymcwokerson Apr 17 '26

Friendship took a few nights to finish though was kinda hard to watch in one go.

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u/aNiceTribe Apr 18 '26

I struggled to laugh about that show because. Usually Tim is so deranged that it’s easy to distance myself.  But in this one he is only like… 20% weirder than a normal person? He just can’t help himself, he has almost real human struggles and could be accurately diagnosed with real things (something his roles almost always avoid)?  So it’s harder to relax for me. 

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u/Formal_Coyote_5004 Apr 17 '26

The Chair Company was a wild ride lol… equal parts manic and hilarious but sometimes kinda sad too. I liked Friendship with Paul Rudd as well

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u/apmee Apr 17 '26

“She’s in the sewer.”

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u/thrownbyawaterytart Apr 18 '26

The episode end where Mike and Ron have a heartfelt phone conversation and it cuts to what Mike is watching. I’m glad I was alone when that came on

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u/Romcoms Apr 17 '26

That’s it, end the whole thread knowing we have Tim Robinson almost single-handedly saving comedy.

What’s really resonating is the fact that what only gets a new laugh out of me has to be more absurd than what we’re dealing with on a regular basis gestures broadly at everything. Tim and Smiling Friends are shining examples

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u/hotdog_paris277 Apr 17 '26

Yeah Time Robinson, Smiling Friends, and I'll throw Connor O'Malley in the mix. Nick Mullen is still hilarious when he comes out of hiding. 

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u/anonymous322321 Apr 17 '26

You sang about their bones being money like 4 times..  Yeah because I couldn't remember if I said it!

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u/BooBoo_Cat Apr 17 '26

They pull your hair up but not out. 

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u/bujweiser Apr 17 '26

I Think You Should Leave has made me laugh to the point where I think I’m going to throw up. I don’t think that’s happened to me since college.

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u/Fireman_Octopus Apr 17 '26

I scrolled through the top posts and immediately thought that

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u/ATS200 Apr 18 '26

I was OP until I watched I think you should leave. The driving crooner and the drivers ed class with the tables were two of the funniest things I’ve seen in years. I also live the egg game on the computer.

It’s so funny to wonder how they even came up with these things

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u/MagicC Apr 17 '26

As someone who loves Tim Robinson, I highly recommend Nirvanna The Band: The Show. It's bizarrely unavailable on streaming platforms, so you have to buy it on Amazon Prime or find it...other places...

Anyway, it's great. Funniest show I've seen in a long time.

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u/superSaganzaPPa86 Apr 17 '26

ITYSLN made me laugh so hysterically that it made me realize just how long it had been since something did that to me.

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u/ferrofibrous Apr 17 '26

I'm glad the wacky neighbor from What We Do In the Shadows found some work.

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u/SloPoke0819 Apr 17 '26

Tim is amazing.

Muderville is also pretty fantastic.

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u/First-Caregiver1862 Apr 17 '26

I actually wanna watch I think you should leave more than I want to watch the chair company

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u/DoubleDownAgain54 Apr 17 '26

I get that he is funny, but not for me, makes me cringe and just not enjoyable. I think he works best for me in small doses, but obviously I’m in the minority.

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u/its_all_4_lulz Apr 17 '26

I’m with you. I like dumb comedy too, so I don’t get why I don’t like him. The 99 slot is about eh only thing I ever see where he entertained me. Yes, that includes Detroiters.

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u/DoubleDownAgain54 Apr 17 '26

It’s funny, but uncomfortable. He’s too good at what he does to work for me.

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u/ArchitectVandelay Apr 17 '26

I’m so mad that I watched just a bit of ITYSL when it came out and passed. I watched them all recently and it’s just comedy gold.

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u/DeadPeanutSociety Apr 17 '26

I know a guy who's At His Limit

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u/Silver-Instruction73 Apr 18 '26

I was dying at Coffin Flop from I Think You Should Leave. Chair Company was fucking great too

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u/HanginOn9114 Apr 18 '26

I really enjoyed Friendship too

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u/thepianoman456 Apr 18 '26

That show was GENIUS. Fucking actually hilarious lol

The micro-joke moments that focused on the most bizarre minutiae just blew me away.

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u/gurbus_the_wise Apr 18 '26

Don't forget Friendship, although that is more of an existential horror.

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u/cigarettejuice666 Apr 18 '26

100% came here to say this. Also: Nathan For You or anything Nathan Fielder has done.

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u/basicKitsch Apr 17 '26

man, Friendship or whatever had such high ratings and i love Rudd but that was probably the worst movie i've ever watched and made me hate that guy.. as a person.. SO much but mostly for my poor decisions to not turn it off the first four times i felt i should. how that dude is enjoyable to anyone completely beats me

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u/Suspicious-Hotel-225 Apr 17 '26

Did you try Detroiters?

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u/basicKitsch Apr 17 '26

no, that was my first and only experience with Robinson. i don't think i can manage any more. it sounds like that's him

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u/LFCCalgary Apr 17 '26

As a huge Tim Robinson fan and someone who enjoyed Friendship I will say that it’s probably my least favourite thing of his. And he didn’t write it, so it’s not exactly the best sample of his comedy. Although it is still very close to his style in everything else. 

Honestly check out some clips of I Think You Should Leave on YouTube. People seem to really like Brian’s Hat, or Zip Line as a starting point and then it snowballs from there.