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<blockquote data-quote="AmberKeys" data-source="post: 2148764" data-attributes="member: 762334">I&#039;m talking about all of those New York City, SNL-ish comedians like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, etc.&nbsp; They star in shows like 30 Rock, The Office, Parks &amp; Recreation, and any SNL spin-off movie, any movie with Steve Carell.&nbsp; A lot of NBC people.The humor seems geared towards those in the New York hegemony (wealthy, upper class socio-economic).&nbsp; I can&#039;t put my finger on it but whenever I happen to watch them it seems like they have a kind of self-absorbed dry humor that&#039;s not very funny.&nbsp; It seems like they&#039;re attempting to ACT quarky but they&#039;re not really naturally quarky/funny people.&nbsp; They belong to a generally dry, boring, whitebread socio-economic group so relative to their little &quot;clan&quot; they&#039;re &quot;funny&quot;.But anyway, I don&#039;t care whether you like them or not.&nbsp; I guess I&#039;m trying to think of some kind of name to categorize these types of people in.&nbsp; How would you describe that kind of humor and/or sub-culture??ps:&nbsp; I don&#039;t care whether you like them or not.&nbsp; I just want to be able to put a label on it so I can understand why I NEVER seem to like any of that kind of humor.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like black comedians it&#039;s easy to understand &quot;oh, I&#039;m not black, I don&#039;t get it&quot;.&nbsp; Get it??</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AmberKeys, post: 2148764, member: 762334"] I'm talking about all of those New York City, SNL-ish comedians like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, etc. They star in shows like 30 Rock, The Office, Parks & Recreation, and any SNL spin-off movie, any movie with Steve Carell. A lot of NBC people. The humor seems geared towards those in the New York hegemony (wealthy, upper class socio-economic). I can't put my finger on it but whenever I happen to watch them it seems like they have a kind of self-absorbed dry humor that's not very funny. It seems like they're attempting to ACT quarky but they're not really naturally quarky/funny people. They belong to a generally dry, boring, whitebread socio-economic group so relative to their little "clan" they're "funny". But anyway, I don't care whether you like them or not. I guess I'm trying to think of some kind of name to categorize these types of people in. How would you describe that kind of humor and/or sub-culture?? ps: I don't care whether you like them or not. I just want to be able to put a label on it so I can understand why I NEVER seem to like any of that kind of humor. If you don't like black comedians it's easy to understand "oh, I'm not black, I don't get it". Get it?? [/QUOTE]

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