Season 1 – LOL: Last One Laughing Canada

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Siobhain O @RT66133476 Jan 16 I did laugh out loud a lot. And I did end up binging the whole season in one go. But I found the UK version funnier. See more C. Y @RT68530672 Apr 26 Show is unfair to women. Tom Green ruined it with non stop creepy emotional discomfort weaponized in place of jokes—and then praised as genius. As a viewer, I noticed a repeated pattern: while many comedians worked hard to craft actual punchlines, Tom Green often bypassed jokes altogether. Instead, he relied on repetitive, deadpan absurdism, delivered with an unsettling stillness. Phrases like “Do you like the sandwich?” were repeated in a monotone voice while making unbroken eye contact—until someone, usually a woman, laughed. Not because it was funny, but because the moment became socially unbearable. It wasn’t humor. It was discomfort. In psychology, there’s a term for this: manipulative absurdism. It’s a form of subtle emotional hijacking. The brain doesn’t know how to respond to nonsense that’s delivered with authority and intensity—so it defaults to laughter, especially if we’re wired to defuse tension. And women are often socialized from a young age to be peacekeepers, to smooth awkwardness with a smile or laugh. That means the game wasn’t on equal footing. It rewarded emotional deadpan over cleverness—and punished empathy, responsiveness, and tension sensitivity. And when a woman broke under that pressure, she’d often later say, “He’s brilliant. He made me laugh the hardest.” But was it brilliance—or manipulation misunderstood as mastery? This is The Emperor’s New Clothes in comedy form. A man does something confusing and bold, and because we don’t understand it, we assume it must be genius. I think it’s worth asking: when is a laugh earned—and when is it extracted through discomfort, repetition, and psychological pressure? And should we reward that in a show built on comedic skill? I’m not trying to attack Tom Green as a person—he clearly understands how to trigger reactions—but I am questioning whether that should be framed as comedy at all. Because when laughter doesn’t come from joy or cleverness, but from low-grade anxiety… maybe it’s time to call it what it is: emotional manipulation disguised as art. See more DAN B @RT24539392 02/07/2025 I can usually watch most comedy shows and get through them but this show was so dry and uninteresting i zoned out half way through it and started watching youtube on my phone there must of been some money left from some other show and they decided to make this. Great people in the show but they where just trying to hard and made it cringe to watch and made you feel like you where watching your weird uncle/aunt try be funny and the family dinner See more Jackson G @RT66265675 04/18/2022 A battle of wits unlike anything I ever saw before. See more Kathleen M @RT37634701 03/12/2022 I loved this so much and will gladly re-watch it again & again. I only wish there were more episodes -- and look fwd to a season 2 if it gets one. See more shahab k @RT42184110 03/08/2022 Got better with each episode and lot of laugh out loud moments. Great to see quality of veteran and new Canadian talent and respect they paid to one another. See more Read all reviews

LOL: Last One Laughing Canada — Season 1

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