History Main / CringeComedy

* ''Film/TheKingofComedy'' is about Rupert and Masha, two delusional and socially awkward individuals stalking a celebrity late night talk show host. They never let reality get in the way of their obsession, with unpleasant if darkly comedic results.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Given that it was co-created and stars Creator/EugeneLevy, the show often relies on cringe humor as the Roses navigate life in a small, rural town. This can include when patriarch Johnny puts his foot in his mouth, when Moira performs "The Number" or when Alexis auditions for the town's community theatre. A noteworthy episode features adult David wetting the bed and the video ending up shared many times on the internet, although David seemingly never learns about that part.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Given that it was co-created and stars Creator/EugeneLevy, the show often relies on cringe humor as the Roses navigate life in a small, rural town. This can include when patriarch Johnny puts his foot in his mouth, when Moira performs "The Number" or when Alexis auditions for the town's community theatre. A noteworthy episode features adult David wetting the bed and the video ending up shared thousands of times on the internet, although David seemingly never learns about that part.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Given that it was co-created and stars Creator/EugeneLevy, the show often relies on cringe humor as the Roses navigate life in a small, rural town. This can include when patriarch Johnny puts his foot in his mouth, when Moira performs "The Number" or when Alexis auditions for the town's community theatre. A noteworthy episode when adult David wets the bed begins as cringe comedy but is subverted as his fiancé Patrick successful shields the very sensitive David from further humiliation.

* ''Series/TheComeback'', Lisa Kudrow's short-lived Creator/{{HBO}} SitCom.

* Much of the humor of ''Series/TheComeback'' is this. It's used to show Valerie as so desperate to get herself back in the spotlight, that she'll do anything for fame.

* ''Film/{{Birdman}}'' has a real gem: Rigg Thompson (Creator/MichaelKeaton) having to walk around an entire city block in nothing but his [[StockUnderwear white underpants]] because [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside he got locked out of the theater's back door and his bathrobe got stuck in the doorway]]. And that block happens to back right up to Times Square at its busiest hour. [[FromBadToWorse And somebody records the Times Square part on a videophone.]] [[OhCrap And posts it.]] ''And'' [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube it trends immediately]].

* ''Film/BeingThere'' is about a mentally handicapped gardener named Chance whose quiet, polite demeanor is [[MistakenForProfound mistaken for intellect]] by those around him. In scene after scene, it seems as though the reality of who Chance is is about to sink in to those who love and admire him, but thanks to Chance's good luck and the other characters' self-deception, it never does.

--> (after Kaguya insists that she's not lovesick) "I use this hospital too, but I'll never be able to show my face here again."
--> (after Kaguya is hooked up to a heart scanner) "Stop it! Stop using the latest technology to expose my mistress' emotions!"
--> (after Kaguya loudly protesting that her AlmostKiss with Shirogane has nothing to do with her hospitalization) "It has everything to do with it!"
--> (after Kaguya insists on visiting another hospital for a second opinion) "Please, don't humiliate me anymore."

* Chapter 79 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is this in its entirety, as Kaguya is baffled as to why love sickness caused her to faint in school and pretty much professes her love of Shirogane to her doctors (in denial, of course) while Hayasaka spends the whole time in the hospital.

''[[Literature/TheManyHorrosOfBeingATokyoWaitress The Many Horrors Of Being A Tokyo Waitress]]'' is almost entirely this, from Jonas getting a job as a transvestite hostess at a gay bar, to his interactions with his girlfriend's roommate. While drunk, he tries to show a [[TheChikan chikan]] how to properly molest train-passengers. Peak cringe is reached in the Ms. Hibiki scenes.

''Literature/TheManyHorrosOfBeingATokyoWaitress'' is almost entirely this, from Jonas getting a job as a transvestite hostess at a gay bar, to his interactions with his girlfriend's roommate. While drunk, he tries to show a [[TheChikan chikan]] how to properly molest train-passengers. Peak cringe is reached in the Ms. Hibiki scenes.

** Perhaps the most extreme example is from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", where Spike interrupts a medal ceremony to insist on singing the winning team's anthem. Only after Shining Armor announces this to the crowd does Spike realize that Cloudsdale (not Ponyville) won the gold for that particular event. Spike doesn't know any of the words to Cloudsdale's anthem. As he ad-libs, the camera cuts multiple times to the audience, who are just as embarrassed as Spike is. One unicorn even yanks his top hat down to cover his entire head. Pinkie Pie on the right is actually [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely oblivious]] to how bad it is.

* ''Film/FrancesHa'' is fairly low-key CringeComedy, but much of the film's humour nevertheless consists of this. The main character enacts her eccentricities in inappropriate situations, e.g. by trying to inaugurate someone as a new BFF by one-sidedly play-fighting with her. In general, Frances' failure to fit in with the adult world is a source of much of the film's comedy.

* Most of Creator/DonHertzfeldt's works are [[BlackComedy dark comedies]], or [[SurrealHumor surreal]] {{dramed|y}}ies. One film, however, is "Lily and Jim", telling the story of a blind date from the perspective of both people. It is complete CringeComedy.

%%* The ''Literature/BridgetJones'' newspaper columns and subsequent book compilations.

** The page image provides a ReactionShot to perhaps the most extreme example from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]", where Spike interrupts a medal ceremony to insist on singing the winning team's anthem. Only after Shining Armor announces this to the crowd does Spike realize that Cloudsdale (not Ponyville) won the gold for that particular event. Spike doesn't know any of the words to Cloudsdale's anthem. As he ad-libs, the camera cuts multiple times to the audience, who are just as embarrassed as Spike is. One unicorn even yanks his top hat down to cover his entire head. Pinkie Pie on the right is actually [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely oblivious]] to how bad it is.

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''. You can count the amount of jokes that aren't RefugeInAudacity, based on racial stereotypes, or [[NauseaFuel related to bodily functions]] on one hand. The entire show is incredibly divisive because depending on who you ask it is either hilarious or it's just a typical AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark-style adult comedy that relies way too much on trying to be offensive on purpose and [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot completely fails to take advantage of its interesting premise]]. [[TakeAThirdOption Or you might find people who find it hilarious precisely because it doesn't try to be much more than over-the-top offensive]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic "[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13565/1/Naked-Singularity/Naked-Singularity Naked Singularity]]". It's about Twilight writing a pornographic story involving expys of her and a few of her friends. A lot of the humor comes from the science allusions and technobabble that makes the story indecipherable. Then she [[spoiler:reads it to a coffee shop with Celestia, Twilight's parents, a class of schoolchildren...]]

* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Creator Creator/JohnCleese has said in interviews how he felt like a little god, looming over these characters and thinking up of new ways of making them suffer.

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* ''Series/TheIncreasinglyPoorDecisionsOfToddMargaret'' relies on how [[Main/ButtMonkey Todd]] tries to bluff his way through the world when transferred to London, and his attempts to dig himself out of trouble.

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* ''[[LightNovel/OreNoNounaiSentakushiGaGakuenLoveComeOZenryokuDeJamaShiteiru My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy]]'' has the protagonist cursed with the "Absolute Choice" and he must abide by this and no, he cannot TakeAThirdOption. Most of these choices are going to end up embarrassing him so much that he became part of the "Rejected Five" because of his bizarre actions.

* In ''Manga/{{Hinamatsuri}}'', after Ikaruga finally decides to take Hina back home, Hina and Nitta have a heartfelt goodbye. But after Nitta leaves Hina reveals to Ikaruga that she no longer has her travel bead; without it an esper can't survive travel through space/time. Hina runs home to tell Nitta the great news only to run into him having a solo party about no longer having Hina. The home life becomes awkward for a while.

** The page image provides a ReactionShot to perhaps the most extreme example from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames "Equestria Games"]], where Spike interrupts a medal ceremony to insist on singing the winning team's anthem. Only after Shining Armor announces this to the crowd does Spike realize that Cloudsdale (not Ponyville) won the gold for that particular event. Spike doesn't know any of the words to Cloudsdale's anthem. As he ad-libs, the camera cuts multiple times to the audience, who are just as embarrassed as Spike is. One unicorn even yanks his top hat down to cover his entire head. Pinkie Pie on the right is actually [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely oblivious]] to how bad it is.