the Joker’s not funny

or, why I’m disappointed with Jared Leto

So the thing about Joker that makes him a hard character to write and portray is not that he’s edgy or violent or somehow more insane than other villains - those are traits that are actually pretty common for villains? Like, willingness to engage in violence is pretty standard, wearing weird clothes for effect is done for most villains, and ‘insanity’ in comic book movies comes in so many flavors and shade that it kind of has no meaning.

( what makes joker hard is he has to be fucking funny )

( what makes joker hard is he has to be fucking funny )

And have some more thoughts about comedy from here - click on thru for the video from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it's totally worth it.

Some more thought on how comedy set up and rules of funny work from Nerdgerhl's tumblr:

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Ok, I need someone to stop me before I get a crush

So, I have just discovered there is an adorable tiny web documentary about former Bruin, Andrew Ference, in which he spends a lot of time riding around on a bike in Boston and hoisting his tiny adorable daughters in his absurdly buff arms.

SO I REALLY NEED SOMEONE TO INTERVENE if this dude is actually a dick in some other way.  Like, stop me if this is gonna be a P*tr*ck K*ne situation or otherwise a Chicago hockey kind of a problem, and I'm just missing the warning signs. 

Because this 2012 video is causing me to experience a fannish emotion - his daughers are SO SMALL and they are on SMALL BIKES, people.