Current Events > Boomer humor vs Xoomer humor vs Moomer humor vs Zoomer humor

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this is MY definition of each one, make your own definition if you want

Boomer humor = stuff on TV and movies from the 80s to the early 00s or so? Peak would be Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, etc. (but The Simpsons has also become a terrible example of boomer humor)

Xoomer humor = stuff on TV and movies from the mid 00s to today. Peak would be 30 Rock, The Office, It's Always Sunny, etc.

Moomer humor = mostly youtube humor

Zoomer humor = some youtube humor, also tiktok humor


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i picked Moomer humor because it sounds the funniest

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Boomer Humor- wife bad
Xoomer Humor- wife good
Moomer Humor- joke about killing self
Xoomer Humor- actually end up killing self

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DuranOfForcena posted...

literally none of these apply to boomers

uh what

you realize that Seinfeld is literally about 30-somethings in the 90s (mostly). Also look at the creators.

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Your boomer examples lean to the later side of boomers for sure. Boomers go as far back as 1945 technically.

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Turbam posted...

Boomer Humor- wife bad
Xoomer Humor- wife good
Moomer Humor- joke about killing self
Xoomer Humor- actually end up killing self

Well played..

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Boomer is more Andy Griffith, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore, Happy Days etc

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Those aren't boomer shows. Boomer humour is like, newspaper comic strips, old chain emails and wife bad jokes. Those are gen x if anything.

I dont think you know what any of those generations are.

Stalolin posted...

Those aren't boomer shows. Boomer humour is like, newspaper comic strips, old chain emails and wife bad jokes. Those are gen x if anything.

https://www.classic-tv.com/shows/decade/1960s

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Babies born in 1956 would have been in mid teens around these years so you're saying because they didn't neccesarily grow up watching them it's different?

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masticatingman posted...

Your boomer examples lean to the later side of boomers for sure. Boomers go as far back as 1945 technically.

But something like All in The Family (and The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son) was definitely watched by boomers but was created by the Greatest Generation and also The Silent Generation in the case of The Jeffersons. The Golden Girls was also definitely watched by boomers but the creator is from the Silent Generation.

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inloveanddeath0 posted...

https://www.classic-tv.com/shows/decade/1960s

Yeah I know?

Edit: I see where the confusion is. I was responding to tc, not you.

inloveanddeath0 posted...

Boomer is more Andy Griffith, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore, Happy Days etc

These are all either Greatest Generation humor or Silent Generation humor, look at the creators.

Also think about the main demographic for all of these shows: middle-aged people.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

These are all either Greatest Generation humor or Silent Generation humor, look at the creators.

Also think about the main demographic for all of these shows: middle-aged people.

But it was meant to appeal to Boomers.
That's his point.
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The Andy Griffith Show started airing in 1960, literally while before the last boomers were born.

A lot of these shows were meant to appeal to all ages, but the main demogrpahic was middle-aged people.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

The Andy Griffith Show started airing in 1960, literally while before the last boomers were born.

A lot of these shows were meant to appeal to all ages, but the main demogrpahic was middle-aged people.

There were enough boomers, 'of age' at that point to get the humor.
And I can actually say, I was at a folk event, in the '80s and a couple of people started whistling the theme. I'm sure that hit home with the boomers. I know that is anecdotal, but it is true.
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There are probably some boomers who watch a lot of millennial youtube videos

Doesn't make them boomer humor

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Seinfeld mainly aired in the 90s, and was mainly meant to appeal to people in their 30s and 40s. So in other words, boomers and the oldest Xoomers.

Of course you don't have to be in your 30s or 40s to enjoy Seinfeld, but that doesn't change who the main demographic was.

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Yes...

The literal main characters were in their 30s.

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Your generation list is about 1 off for each of them. My dad was born in 1970 and peak humor for him has always been those older shows like sanford and son and mamas family. I was born in the 80s and always enjoyed shows like Martin or In Living Color. A lot of people in my generation did and still bring it up to this day. Shows like Always Sunny or Trailer Park Boys click more with the millennials than Gen Xers.

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