not as funny now
it just aint
shareHumour can date, I guess. Or you can find stuff less funny as you get older.
I watched Ace Ventura; Pet Detective a couple of years ago, and was disappointed that I didn't find it as amusing as when I was a teenager.
Humor can't 'date'.
Whatever 'dating' means anyway.
Look, the original meaning of something being 'dated', simply means that they show enough of the era's gimmicks, fashions, behaviours, styles, etc. that you can tell when it was made - so it's like a DATE has been STAMPED on it. (Usually it's not as accurate as an actual date is, these things are usually decade-based, but sometimes even as accurate as a year range - but there's no way you can look at a hat in a movie and know the exact DATE when the movie was released).
Humor is a timeless things - you can fix certain jokes to certain events, fashions, memes, TV shows, movies, pop culture items or expressions that do have a 'date' - if a movie made in the sixties references something relatively obscure that was popular for a couple of months mid-sixties, chances are, most modern audiences would not get that reference (think of things like that Pinto-reference in 'Top Secret!' - would modern audiences instantly know that Pintos used to have a design flaw that made them explode easily? I always thought that scene pokes fun at the 'movie explosions' that happen so easily).
So in _THAT_ sense, "humor can date", I suppose. Fine.
But the thing is, movies don't change, and humor stays the same as well. It's the people and the world around them that changes. Something that was once funny, doesn't change to being unfunny. It's YOU and YOUR PERCEPTION that changes, so you don't _FIND_ it funny anymore.
Also, a joke told more than once gets old and stale really quickly, so there's also that. You can laugh your buttockses off at something, then see the same thing after 20 years and not even find it slightly amusing anymore. It's partially because you already know the joke, and partially, because you have changed. The joke itself is still the same.
Ace Ventura is 'relatively funny', but teenagers laugh at almost anything. When you get to be more cultivated and sophisticated adult, your perspective changes.
Exposure to other movies can also change your perception.
When I first saw 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective', I laughed a lot, and I thought it was the most hilarious thing since Seinfeld.
Then I saw 'Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls', and thought it was even funnier than the first one, and thought we have a new 'funny champion'.
However, soon I was exposed to 'Liar, Liar', and suddenly 'Ace Ventura' didn't seem as funny anymore.
"When you get to be more cultivated and sophisticated adult"
Bullshit. Clown Humor is always funny.