Who is the funniest character in Firefly/Serenity?
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Wash is the funniest in terms of intentionally funny. Jayne is the funniest in terms of spawning the best jokes.
Jayne: Anyone remember her comign at me with a butcher's knife?
Wash: Wacky fun...
Jayne: You wanna go little man?
Wash: Only if it's some place with candlelight.
Zoe: I don't think she'd harm anyone.
Jayne: Butcher's knife?
Zoe: Anyone we can't spare.
Jayne: Are you saying she's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's had congress with the beast.
Jayne: She's in congress?
Wash: How did you brain master human speech?
I've always loved the way these two play off of eachother. Led to some of the best jokes in the series (for me anyway). Sorry all the quotes are from Objects in Space, I just watched it again last night so it's the one fresh in my head. It's a Jayne/Wash tie for different types of humor.
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I would say that the funniest character is probably Wash, Mal, or Jayne. Can't really choose between them. River and Simon would be tied, they're not consistently funny all the time, but they have their moments and whatnot. Kaylee and then Book and then Zoe.
I say they're all funny and it is really hard to choose between them!
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Wash, for both his spoken and physical humor - gestures, facial expressions, etc.
Mal, because it's always funny to see him react to being made fun of, and his 'space monkeys' quip.
Jayne, because he's just Jayne.
Book, for all his jabs at Mal.
Inara, for all her jabs at Mal.
Simon, because of Objects in Space.
Zoe, because of her 'deathtrap' comment in Out of Gas.
River, because it's funny to be crazy - plus, she swallowed a bug.
My apologies to Kaylee, but she is just too cute to be funny.
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A word on behalf of Kaylee - Her argument re interrogating the buffet table in Shindig and her tour de force at the thought of losing Simon - from engines falling from the sky and batteries, are quite funny.
But I have to say Mal. Wash is the funniest for funny sake, but the humor here is so character driven, thats where Jayne and Simon very unintentionally gain substantial ground on Wash.
But we know Mal most, and laughs abound around every well rounded aspect of his character. He is unique, not a villian who skewers the helpless, nor the hero who helps them up - rather, he pokes them a few times - man, I am loving me some Shindig today...
See how I'm not punching him, I think I've grown!
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Who is the funniest? Probably Wash or Jayne.
Who do I laugh at the most? Simon, especially when Jayne's around. Their chemistry was awesome.
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"Intentionally" Wash. It's his way of dealing with the 'verse.
"Unintentionally" Jayne
That is not to say Jayne isn't written to be funny, but that the character himself isn't trying to be funny.
Ah hell, they are all funny in that way humans are when they respond to the world around them.
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They're all pretty funny in their own way, but I have to say Jayne's the one make's me out loud the most.
Jayne: We need a diversion. I say Zoe gets nekkid.
Wash (not even looking up): No.
Jayne: I could get nekkid.
(chorus of alarm and disgust): No!
Or from what I watched last night:
Jayne: Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. (turns a page) Today we were captured by hillfolk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever!
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Originally posted by Cliomuse:
"Intentionally" Wash. It's his way of dealing with the 'verse.
"Unintentionally" Jayne
That is not to say Jayne isn't written to be funny, but that the character himself isn't trying to be funny.
Ah hell, they are all funny in that way humans are when they respond to the world around them.
I like the way you put that. Jayne isn't what I would call strongly self-aware.
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