1. He reminds me of Martin Short  All, unfunny, manic comedians who depend too heavily on slapstick remind me of Short. Fucking Martin Lawrence reminds me of Short. Short may have been funny back in the 80s when I was too young to know what humor was. It’s possible. There is a point at which the desire to amuse people becomes pathetic, a tired insincere schtick. Class clowns grow up, they lose the old compulsions to be noticed, to have an audience, the need to make people laugh, but if it’s all they know how to do, they are trapped, and you, their audience, are trapped too.

Short, Lawrence and Myers all seem trapped in personae and in a job they were successful at when young, and now, being old, they go through the motions, and when the laughs dwindle, they try even harder, just to see if they still can.

2. He relies on midget humor  Laughing at people because they are short now has a kind of hipness to it because it is so low-brow. It’s accessible, anti-elitist humor, like fart-jokes or Judd Apatow’s weed-humor. The problem is that it offers limited inspiration, so limited that Myers is reduced to making Wizard of Oz references. Munchkin jokes. Midget gags are on par with pies in the face from Soupy Sayles. It’s ok if retards want to laugh at it, but when people who can appreciate the humor in a movie like, say, Dr Strangelove laugh, it validates these hacks, so stop.

Aside from all that Verne Troyer creeps me out.

3. His fans are morons  They often think they aren’t because they pick up on the “obscure” references that he tosses out from time to time. The same way people feel clever because they know who Dennis Miller is talking about if he refers to Joseph Conrad. If you can’t come up with anything new, if you have already told all your good jokes, just rework old hack ideas with some literary crap, that way your audience will think you are an educated comedian and that they will seem clever by association when they laugh at your jokes. If you don’t laugh at Dennis Miller’s routine it might be because you don’t read very widely.

If the Three Stooges’ names were Nathan Zuckerman, Randle Patrick McMurphy, and Pig Bodine, they would still be 3 dumb circus clowns. Being able to make references does not make you funny, being able to get references does not make you smart.

4. His humor consists of talking funny  His characters all have a funny accent,that’s it, that all that’s funny about them, telling bad jokes in a funny accent. It’s ridicule humor, very much like Martin Lawrence’s. You tell the audience to laugh by talking like a stereotype. Myers’ fans don’t know this but there are many people who stopped laughing at that kind of thing in the 3rd grade.There is a certain amount of satisfaction in seeing cleverly delivered mimicry, like Meryl Streep’s accents, but it’s respect for for a good performance, not humor. So somebody does a Brooklyn accent, what’s innately funny about it? If somebody washes your car really well, do you immediately start giggling?
Mockery is only funny when the comedian directs it at an individual that you hate, and there is nothing funny about the mockery itself, it’s just fun because the hatred is shared.

5. The deadpan delivery (in interviews)  I like Bill Murray, don’t get me wrong. The deadpan delivery is about contrast, the difference betwen the absurdity of your statements and the absence of facial expression. This works with dry humor and with nothing else. You also have to actually say something funny or there is no contrast, then the audience is left staring at your frozen face. If it’s not done well it feels like low-brow shtick, the comedian trying to manipulate the audience by showing them how dry and witty he is. Myers is neither dry nor witty.