{"id":273,"date":"2006-05-30T08:31:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/30\/funnyweird-or-funnyhaha\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T08:31:02","slug":"funnyweird-or-funnyhaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/30\/funnyweird-or-funnyhaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny-Weird or Funny-Ha-Ha?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While channel-surfing the other night, I caught a few minutes of a program claiming to present the &#8220;100 Funniest Movies of All Time,&#8221; and was a little baffled at the choices I saw represented. As with most list shows, it was way too heavy on recent stuff (<cite>The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/cite> might be really funny, but it&#8217;s too recent to be on an all-time list), but they seemed to be particularly misguided, even by the standards of pop-culture list shows.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t watch much of it, but today Ed Brayton has <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2006\/05\/100_funniest_movies.php\">the full list<\/a>, and it&#8217;s clear that the producers are using &#8220;funny&#8221; in a different sense than I do. Ed has provided detailed commentary on a lot of the choices, but I&#8217;m too lazy to do the same, so go look at his post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While channel-surfing the other night, I caught a few minutes of a program claiming to present the &#8220;100 Funniest Movies of All Time,&#8221; and was a little baffled at the choices I saw represented. As with most list shows, it was way too heavy on recent stuff (The 40-Year-Old Virgin might be really funny, but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/30\/funnyweird-or-funnyhaha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funny-Weird or Funny-Ha-Ha?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}