That's supposed to be funny??

I recently watched two Flash animations that were supposed to be funny. One was called How To Kill A Mockingbird, and the other was called Salad Fingers. Both were beyond retarded.



It seems that, more and more these days, people are equating haphazard juxtapositions of non-sequitors (oooo! big words!) with comedy, and it's really sad. A lot of this new wave of comedy just consists of random montages, and most of it isn't funny. Take, for instance, Salad Fingers. It's about a poorly animated fucktard of a character named Salad Fingers who likes rusty spoons. That's it. He spends a good five minutes (the entire length of the animation) "looking for the perfect spoon," and, in the end, he finds a rusty kettle. How the fuck is this supposed to be comical?



I don't know how this whole random equals funny movement started, but I personally think it degrades comedy as a whole by opening the floodgates to people—who aren't funny—thinking that they're funny. I see this shit in comedy clubs and on TV all the time too, and only rarely is it ever funny.



Now, I'm not saying that randomness can't be funny, but I don't think that it, alone, is as funny as people make it out to be. It still needs proper timing and presentation, but people these days seem to be forgetting that.



Anyway, I just wanted to rant because both of those animations were painfully boring although How to Kill a Mocking Bird had potential because it had freakin' NINJAS. Plus the epic battle scene where "The final Countdown" is blaring in the background was pretty nice, but in the end it just tried too hard.



I'll link them, so you guys can see what I'm talking about.



How To Kill A Mockingbird:

Salad Fingers: