(Well, at least it's above Spider-Man 3?) A TV ad for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer proclaimed the game to be "Probably the greatest action game based on a movie based on a superhero comic of the year." Seriously.Monkey tells Johnny Vegas that he's "the funniest person sitting in that chair". Spanish TV channel Telecinco promoted itself for about two years as the "leader of private television", which really meant that public TV channel TVE1 was the first TV network in Spain and Telecinco was the second one.Countdown with Keith Olbermann, while on MSNBC, was very proud of being the #1 cable news show not on Fox News.They'll mention usually the genre (#1 new comedy), time (#1 new show of the year), location (#1 show on cable), and any combination of these, getting more and more specific as you go.
Sometimes the joke is that, even in such an incredibly narrow category, the thing being discussed still isn't first.Ĭreators may describe their own works this way as a form of humorous Self-Deprecation it can also be a way to imply that a work, while bad, at least has a unique premise it's better than any other of its type because there is no other. Sometimes the intent is for the praise to be taken seriously (in which case it becomes a version of the Sharpshooter Fallacy), but the more frequent implication is that there isn't any larger category relative to which it can apply, making it a Stealth Insult (if the backhandedness of the compliment is not immediately obvious) or a form of Damned by Faint Praise (if it is). This trope covers situations where something seems to be highly praised, and it's relative to an extremely small or intrinsically awful group (often a group of one), rendering the praise meaningless.
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