He urged Mormon cinema to abandon "moronic," unfunny comedies that rely too much on self-mockery, and family films, which often lack any valuable meaning.

At times, Carell can seem like a brilliant piece of software, a 2.0 fix for the problem of unfunny comedy.

The reasoning behind "Out on a Limb," a frantically unfunny new comedy starring Matthew Broderick, seems impenetrable.

Sometimes you get "Neighbors," an unfunny comedy.

Variety dubbed it "a cruel, unnecessary and mostly unfunny musical comedy."

And what could be more discouraging than a humor book without funny parts, unless it's that unfunny comedy can be wildly popular in spite of itself?

The only review on said site is from Matthew James, who called it a "stupid and unfunny comedy which delivers the all together well known material very blandly".

The screamers in this stridently unfunny comedy about sports obsession are Boston Celtic fans whose rabid devotion to the basketball team amounts to a self-destructive addiction.

The Hartford Courant stated the series a "not so good" show "with their thin pop and unfunny comedies".

This could have been the beginning of a new genre - unfunny comedy.