Werner Herzog makes everything funny

I'm not sure what is so intensely amusing. It's a matter of life or death situation. When a penguin gets separated from the flock in the winter in the arctic. Beyond the mountains is the sanctuary where half of the flock is in a circle huddled around their eggs keeping them warm. The lone penguin must return because it's his turn to take care of his egg. Yes the males will keep watch when it's the females turn to make the journey to the ocean to feed herself and then return to the nest beyond the mountains. I don't find their plight for survival funny at all. It's actually a miracle that occurs year after year. Typical man laughing at things he doesn't understand. I wonder how you would react if you were in the same situation? Watch the March of the Penguins to understand more.

I can't watch the video clips. This is too sad. Penguins have feelings too. Maybe he can't find either his mate or his baby chick, he probably knows they're dead, and he's desperately looking for them and so returns to the last place he saw them, which at the moment is both away from the colony and feeding grounds, towards the mountains. Wouldn't you feel the same way if the same thing happened to you?
I don't find this funny at all. Too sad how many people do. What is wrong with the people in the world today...so many are distanced from the meaning of life and death.

This post was the funniest thing I'd seen all day - until I read the comment section!

GS: No matter what foreign accent you wish to hear inside your head as you read this, you know as well as I do the subject content here is immoral and inhumane. Watching a living being in severe distress cause fatal harm to itself is only funny to people who are comfortably numb and void of conscience. The only reason you wouldn't and couldn't include the video clip content with this post, is to avoid further potential legal issues. You want ratings, readers and exposure but at who's expense? An innocent, harmless fatally distressed animal and oh what fun it is to you to witness death. Instead of having a heart, you'd rather eat it. Who's the animal here now?

First off, we are all aware of Werner Herzog's budding career as a voice artist, right? He's appeared on Metalocalypse, The Simpsons, and American Dad... A sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4f9HNknKTU

Perhaps his greatest virtue is that he doesn't take himself entirely seriously, either.

...though I don't think it's just Herzog's voice that makes the penguin clip funny. There's a beat after he asks his bizarre question (apropos, apparently, of nothing) where the scientist answering seems to be having trouble keeping a straight face for the camera. The music, too, has such overbearing solemnity, so out-of-step with the awkward physicality of a penguin ("comedy is tragedy plus penguins"). And there's added amusement for those of us familiar with Herzog's filmmaking practices - he is sometimes unreliable, falsifying details for the sake of the film (like Dieter's OCD complex about opening doors in Little Dieter Needs to Fly, or the completely invented details about the religion of Australian aborigines in Where The Green Ants Dream); he's piling a heap of meaning on footage of a penguin, whom he is *claiming* is going in the wrong direction, but (for all we know), this is just a penguin being a penguin, waddling around; we have no idea what the penguin is thinking or doing - and neither could he! The whole life-and-death pathos of the scene, as Herzog strives for what he calls the "Ecstatic Truth," *could* be emerging simply from Herzog's mind. So what *does* Werner Herzog think of when he sees a lone penguin on the ice? Why, the penguin must be insane, deranged, heading to certain doom, another example of the cruelty of nature!

But of course!

For the record, someone has made a whole series of faux-Herzog stuff on Youtube: "Werner Herzog reads Curious George," that sort of thing... It would be funnier if the person did Herzog's voice better...

you know i dont' really care about "Werner Herzog's career" and how "funny" he sounds to you. and no i don't see the scientist smirking or trying to stifle laughter. wtf ? it's your persepctive and perception.

this video is not intended to be funny. you are out of touch with the reality of the penguins life and death.

the video clip has classical choir music as though at a funeral.

i'm sure the voices in your head are playing barbershop choir boys, no doubt. you're detached and distanced from the life and death situation. you are sad in my eyes.