[Humor] How to make Garfield funny

[Iron Sky]

So, elsewhere on the forum, my roommate posted a link to Realfield, to which another poster countered with the Garfield Randomizer. I thought they were hilarious, so I thought I'd share some of the ones it came up with for me.

Enjoy!

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Meh, the randomizer doesn't seem particularly funny to me. Ever.

Realfield seems to be a knock-off of garfieldminusgarfield, but instead of removing garfield, they substituted in a realistically drawn cat instead. I prefer garfield minus garfield.

 

[MarkB]

Call me a heathen, but compared with any of those, I think I prefer Garfield. At least, a few of those raised a mild snigger.

 

[Relique du Madde]

M
I prefer garfield minus garfield.

Some of the ones on that site were decent at best, but I thought they mostly weren't.

 

[Remus Lupin]

And then there's this:

Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Cthulhu

 

[Iron Sky]

I think what gets me about the random Garfields is that it's emergent humor. Some computer algorithm is churning some images around and suddenly humor arises. You'll get 10 that don't make any sense at all, but that makes them even more entertaining to me when they do.

Obviously humor is subjective, not objective so maybe you weren't as entertained as I was. Let me have my wrong-bad-fun(ny)!

I can't remember the last time an actual Garfield strip made me even chuckle...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

How to make Garfield funny?

Make him a Rakshasha*, keep the rest. The thought of a powerful, evil cat-being who is so lax that it acts like a common housecat (with an abnormal taste for lasagna) amuses me.

Clearly, he's a societal exile.

* or if you prefer sci-fi to myth and legend, make him Kzinti

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Some of the ones on that site were decent at best, but I thought they mostly weren't.

Well, yeah. But they are a step up the humor chain from the original.

 

[ssampier]

Garfield has never been laugh-out-loud funny. Garfield is usually entertaining in very small doses.

For comics, I usually read Baldo, Dilbert, Luann, and Pearls Before Swine daily.

 

[I'm A Banana]

My sense of humor runs more Campbellian.