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How the Simpsons somehow became a great show

"For over 20 years cartoonist Matt Groening has been the unkempt face of the billion-dollar franchise The Simpsons. He is the person generally considered most responsible for the creation of the series and its success and obviously, he is a very rich man because of it. But something has always eluded me about Groening's success that I have never been able to pinpoint until now.

Matt Groening isn't funny.

Nothing he has ever written has been funny. He has never said anything funny in interviews or at nerd conventions. He isn't funny on The Simpsons DVD episode commentaries. The man simply isn't funny in any way, shape or form.

The original Simpsons shorts weren't funny. They were great only because Tracy Ullman was so painful to watch. Life in Hell isn't funny. It's one of those comics that you read and go, "Hum, that's interesting. I too hate when people use that word I guess." Daily comic strips by definition aren't funny. They wouldn't even exist if people didn't have to do things like ride the subway or take a dump at work on the company's dime. Some mentally unstable people buy whole books of that crap, but that's it.

Why then is the least funny cartoonist on the planet responsible for the funniest and greatest television comedy of all time?"