Has Duke Nukem ever been funny?

[Holding These Alligators Down]

I just watched some videos about dodgy PS1 Duke games and i couldn't shake the feeling that zero of Duke's jokes and one liners were even remotely funny.
I'm in my 30's and love comedians like Bill Burr and Andrew Dice Clay so i can appreciate dumb macho, misogynistic jokes but Duke Nukem is lame.
He has one good game and he's lame.

There you go.

[Aoba]

Who is Duke Nukem?

[OOF]

The jokes are funny the first time. not like a HAHA rolling on the floor laugh but a chuckle

[Wet Water]

They can be but they generally get old, fast.

[JDumbz]

Never understood the humor either.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Their stupidity made them entertaining.

[Holding These Alligators Down]

Originally posted by Rodney:

Back in the 90's he was. One of the reasons why Duke Nukem Forever failed was because the teenagers that turned into adults that played his original games all grew out of that humor.

The devs really missed an opportunity too to make a funny story with DNF.
The thing is, Duke Nukem as a character isn't cool, he's an idiot who thinks he's badass. The story in DNF all revolves around how amazing and cool Duke apparently is and it just comes across as stupid.
If they'd gone with the idea that Duke is a delusional person who thinks he's badass and irresistible to women when he actually isn't then it would have at least been interesting.

[( ￣ω￣.)]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Their stupidity made them entertaining.

Ye

[psychotron666]

I was like 8 when duke nukem 3d came out. It was the funniest shut ever back then lol. But those were the days of cheesy one liner driven action movies, so it's very much a product of its time.

I'm actually more baffled how I ever thought Seth Rogen was funny when I was younger (Seth Rogen: haha, weeed..
Seth Rogen fans: LMFAO SO FUNNY!)

[Stingray_tm]

Originally posted by Holding These Alligators Down:

He has one good game and he's lame.

"Duke Nukem Manhattan Project" is actually a pretty good game, even though almost nobody has ever heard of it. (It also features the best version of Grabbag ever:

YouTube™ Video: Duke Nukem Manhattan Project (PC) Soundtrack (OST) Track 15 - Duke Theme Studio (Grabbag) 

Views: 31,113

Arranged and Performed by: Mathew Diffin (guitar), Darren Mohle (bass), Gary Phillips (drums)

About the humour: I don't care about the crudeness. My issue is more, that the best quotes are pretty much stolen from other movies. I prefered "Shadow Warrior", who might have been even more offensive but more original.

[Stingray_tm]

Originally posted by Masque:

Instead they went and cranked up the cringe by insinuating that he was doing the nasty with the Olson Twins, in the opening scene. Who were kids at the time. No, they weren't actually called that, but it was meant to be them, no question.

While it was pretty cringy, the Olson Twins were 24 at that time, so I wouldn't call them kids at that point.

[FafnirChaos]

Originally posted by Stingray_tm:

Originally posted by Holding These Alligators Down:

He has one good game and he's lame.

"Duke Nukem Manhattan Project" is actually a pretty good game, even though almost nobody has ever heard of it.

About the humour: I don't care about the crudeness. My issue is more, that the best quotes are pretty much stolen from other movies. I prefered "Shadow Warrior", who might have been even more offensive but more original.

Homage - I mean he's the very definition of an 80's/90's action hero - it's how he was created.

[Vox]

DNF sucked because Randy was involved.

[Plaid]

Originally posted by Vox:

DNF sucked because Randy was involved.

Don't worry, I'm not defending Randy but, if it weren't for him we might not have a DNF.
Curse that man.

I kinda wish we were all still anticipating it. The days before our hopes and dreams were dashed.

[FafnirChaos]

Originally posted by Vox:

DNF sucked because Randy was involved.

I mean that game changed so much - I think when gearbox got it, they just slapped together a bunch of levels did some testing and then released it.

The other development team just kept trying to change everything whenever new hardware came out - instead of releasing the game on one system, and then moving onto the next - It was their own fault for everything that happened.

[Stingray_tm]

Originally posted by Vinz Clortho:

Originally posted by Donut:

:duke: - time to chew ass and kick bubblegum and I'm all out of ass.

They stole that from They Live John Carpenter 1988

And this quote was then also reused by Army of Darkness in 1992. So Duke Nukem wasn't even original in reusing that quote.