Television series

Ridiculousness

Name: Ridiculousness
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2011
Cast: Sterling Brim, Rob Dyrdek, Chanel West Coast, Lolo Wood

Absurdist comedy
Light-hearted
Relentless
Dip in and out

Ridiculousness is a 30-minute clip show where Rob Dyrdek and his rotating panel of celebrity guests watch viral internet videos and riff on them. It's pure comedic chaos—half MST3K, half YouTube rabbit hole with your funniest friends. Best watched in clusters while your brain is off duty. For people who just want to laugh at absurdity without pretence.

TVMaze rating

3.1

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you find the bit of a stranger's ill-advised stunt funnier than any scripted sitcom, and you enjoy a loose gang of hosts trading jokes over clips until the laughs pile up.

Skip it if you want a story that builds, characters who change, or anything you can follow across episodes, since each half-hour is a self-contained run of clips in the same format.

What it asks of you: Little beyond a half hour at a time and a willingness to let the format repeat; it is made to be dipped into, with no need to keep track of anything.

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America's Funniest Home Videos1990

The OG clip show with genuine warmth. People getting knocked over by their own creations has been funny for 30 years because the joy is real, and AFV proves you don't need celebrity commentary to find the joy.

But It's genteel and wholesome in a way that might feel slow if you're craving the chaos of Ridiculousness. Also genuinely old now.

Jackass2000

Where Ridiculousness watches disasters, Jackass *creates* them on purpose. Same spirit of laughter at human folly, but these guys are the stunt team. Anarchic, fearless, and genuinely inventive in its stupidity.

But The stunts are real and sometimes cringingly dangerous. If you hate secondhand pain, this will make you flinch constantly. It's also dated-feeling now in ways that don't help it.

Tosh.02009

Daniel Tosh built an empire on this exact formula: clip, reaction, joke. Leaner than Ridiculousness and meaner in tone, which some people find sharper. The speed keeps you moving through the pain.

But Tosh's humour is often punchy-mean rather than joyful. It can feel like watching someone be cruel to strangers rather than sharing a laugh with them.

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The wildcard

Something you would not have found on your own.

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Both are fundamentally about watching bad content and making it funny through commentary. MST3K is the spiritual ancestor—it codified the format of friends watching something absurd together.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is the granddaddy of this format—comedians making fun of bad movies while you watch them. The 2017 revival brought it back with the same DNA: friends riffing on something ridiculous. Same joy, sharper writers, higher production values than a clip show.

But It requires you to watch the bad movies in their entirety. If you don't have patience for slow sci-fi B-movies, you'll resent the commitment.

Impractical Jokers2011

Four comedians dare each other to do increasingly stupid things in public, and their friendship chemistry is genuinely warm. It's Ridiculousness energy but with higher stakes because it's happening in real time to people you like.

But The show is very long and often relies on cringe humour that doesn't land. Some challenges go nowhere. It also skews younger in its sensibilities.

Workaholics2011

Same era as Ridiculousness, same vibe of idiots doing dumb things and finding joy in chaos. It's scripted, so the failures are more thoughtful, but the tone of anarchic comedy is right in the wheelhouse.

But Scripted comedy dates differently than real clips. The show can feel forced when it should feel organic.

The Eric Andre Show2012

Same spirit of letting absurdity breathe and finding humour in the uncomfortable. But where Ridiculousness points at existing chaos, André creates it, making the audience itself part of the disaster.

Absurdist comedy that feels like Ridiculousness's evil twin—no clips, just chaos and surrealism. André breaks every rule of late-night, and the result is something genuinely unhinged. If you like watching things go wrong, this is watching reality itself go wrong.

But It's deeply weird and not always funny—sometimes just discomfiting. There's no safety net of 'at least this person actually fell down the stairs.' It requires a taste for avant-garde weirdness.

Nathan for You2013

Both find humour in watching things go spectacularly wrong in real time. But Nathan for You is crafted failure—the comedy is in watching a plan implode, not in random internet chaos. Same laughter, opposite engineering.

Nathan Fielding infiltrates small businesses with deliberately terrible ideas to see what happens. It's reality unscripted like Ridiculousness, but with stakes and story arcs. Comedy through schemes failing instead of just watching people fail—more Trojan horse than clip show.

But It's deadpan and slow-building. If you want quick laughs, the patient construction of each episode will frustrate you. Also often deeply awkward in ways that aren't cathartic.