Board Thread:Off-topic/@comment-27847292-20160810183013/@comment-5642360-20160812180251

I-Ship-Stevidot wrote: Democritos wrote: Got an even better theory: This is unfunny as hell No, no, you forgot to put the first "as".

The correct way would be saying "this is as unfunny as hell", its like saying "raccoons are much a rodent as a pie", its just incorrect and redundant. Actually, the sentence still works. He using "as hell" as an idiom, which means "in an extreme way". So if you just replace the idiom, it'll be "This is unfunny in an extreme way." , which is correct.

Also, there is no shred of redundancy in any of the examples you gave. Nor was it incorrect, Demo's sentence, that is.