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What is your sense of humour?

Beautiful Music
04-08-2007, 18:43
Provide something you think funny, or somehow define your sense of humour.
Dundee-Fienn
04-08-2007, 18:45
Bad Taste parties are funny
JuNii
04-08-2007, 18:45
Monty Python
Dundee-Fienn
04-08-2007, 18:46
Monty Python

Seconded
Rasselas
04-08-2007, 18:53
Monty Python

Thirded
Nadkor
04-08-2007, 19:03
Dry, sarcastic, and just a bit dark.
Vetalia
04-08-2007, 19:07
Dry, sarcastic, and just a bit dark.

Seconded. With a healthy dose of schadenfreude in my case.
IL Ruffino
04-08-2007, 19:10
Murder.
Cabra West
04-08-2007, 19:19
Father Ted.
Lolcats.
Lunatic Goofballs.
South Park.
Liberty Meadows.
Oliver Kalkofe.

Just to give a few...
Extreme Ironing
04-08-2007, 19:20
Somewhere between Monty Python and Airplane.
Brutland and Norden
04-08-2007, 19:21
vitreous humour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitreous_humour) will do.
Greater Trostia
04-08-2007, 19:21
Farts.
Agerias
04-08-2007, 19:28
Monty Python
Fourthed.

I also like lolcats, Father Ted, Daily Show, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, sarcasm, silliness, randomness, and stuff like that.
JuNii
04-08-2007, 19:36
I am also a fan of Benny Hill.

Fatricia and Feter

Ladies and gentlemen, 50 years ago Paul Finch, the famous short-sighted poet, typed his last poem on a machine which had been repaired by an equally short-sighted repairman. And he put the 'F' where the 'P' should be, and the he put the 'P' where the 'F' should be.

However, as it is his last poem, I thought you might like to hear it as it was originally written. Here it is then, Fatricia and Feter, the pinal foem of Faul Pinch. I think you'll like it.

Fatricia was just pipteen
When she pell in love with Fete,
He was pishing in the river,
With galoshes on his peet.

(He speaks first)

"Is the water deef here?"
"About pour inches," she reflies,
He fut his poot in pront of him,
And sank up to his eyes.

As he struggled to the surpace,
Covered prom head to poot, in muck,
She said, "That's punny,
It only comes halp way uf my duck."

She noticed he was peeling paint
So she griffed him by the arm,
He said, "Are you rich?" She said, "No, I peed myself
With pood grown on my parm."

Years fassed by and handsome Fete
Lept town, and so did fretty Fat,
She joined the metrofolitan folice porce,
Her polks were froud of that.

One day as she was facing uf and down,
She heard a strange cry in the street,
Someone was flaying a piddle,
In the gutter, there stood Fete.

She could tell by the look ufon his pace,
He was peeling broken-hearted,
He said, "I've lept my wipe, you know,"
She said, "I'd heard you'd... gone."

"Flease, flease, oh go away flease," he begged,
She answered him with smiles,
He said, "I've been in frison,"
She said, "I know, I've seen your piles."

He said, "At least I had pood in there
And over my head a roop,
If I'd have stayed much longer with all those men,
I'd have become a raving foop."

She held his hand as they were wed,
At the chafel of St. Fauls,
They honeymooned in Niagara,
And she held him by the palls.

They now have pour children,
And lipe for them is great,
You just can't fredict where it will foint,
That pickle pinger of pate.
Ferrous Oxide
04-08-2007, 19:38
British and SOME American absurdist comedy. See: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Brak Show, The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

ESPECIALLY Darkplace. That's absolute GOLD.

Marenghi: I don't think that any form of life, be it human, animal or plant, should be harmed in the making of a television show. So I personally feel very bad about the cat we killed.
Dakini
04-08-2007, 19:43
What's red, slimy and crawling up your leg?

A homesick abortion.


Generally, I like comedy that's absurd, sarcastic, deadpan, often offensive, pessimistic, absurd et c. It's kinda hard to explain. In my own uses of humour it's usually either deadpan or sarcastic and more often than not quite dirty (in the right company).

For instance, the other day I was at a bar with some friends and my now ex-bf (it's a distance thing, not a hating each other thing) and I poured him a glass of beer from the pitcher we were splitting and I gave it a bit much foam. He looked at it and said "This is the one you're giving me?!" and I just calmly replied "Well, you don't usually complain when I give you too much head."
Lunatic Goofballs
04-08-2007, 20:05
I'm a student of comedy in all it's forms. Laughter is God's greatest gift.

Something I think is funny? THat defines my sense of humor? Wow.... hmm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxhrpY1Ii00

That's a start. :)
Gens Romae
04-08-2007, 20:12
Irony
Anti-Social Darwinism
04-08-2007, 20:20
According to my daughter and my ex-husband, I have none.
Jenrak
04-08-2007, 20:32
http://www.fat-pie.com/jerryjackson.htm
Lunatic Goofballs
04-08-2007, 20:43
SOme more. :)

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=832555555
Heretichia
04-08-2007, 21:21
SOme more. :)

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=832555555

That is golden :D
Soviestan
04-08-2007, 21:23
cynical and sarcastic.
Liminus
04-08-2007, 21:30
Wes Anderson movies (Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums[sp?], etc.), lolcats, The Daily Show, stuff like that
Compulsive Depression
04-08-2007, 21:38
Ironic, sick and twisted :)
Lunatic Goofballs
04-08-2007, 21:45
More. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX2nUP1015M
Neo Undelia
04-08-2007, 21:47
Pretty much a little bit of everything. Though I'm not a big fan of bad-natured pranks and the like.
Copiosa Scotia
04-08-2007, 21:57
The following sentence defines my sense of humor:

If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
Johnny B Goode
04-08-2007, 22:04
Provide something you think funny, or somehow define your sense of humour.

Mel Brooks.
Rubiconic Crossings
04-08-2007, 22:10
Normal.
Pezalia
04-08-2007, 22:25
Frasier

Don't laugh

:sniper:
Sonnveld
04-08-2007, 22:55
Witty, ironic, silly. My friends tell me I have a dry wit.

In truth, I appreciate satire and wit, but I love absurdity and farcical humour. My two favourite comedy movies are Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" and Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove." The scenes with the dolls, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee in "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" had me laughing until I was cross-eyed.

I love Monty Python but it's become such an icon that I'm getting somewhat inured to the humour there. One can only hear "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!" so many times before one yawns and looks for the door. When I watch it, though, it still cracks me up, but I don't laugh at the obvious quotable sketches and gags. It's stuff like Michael Palin on the moors, saying "Lemon Curry?", "Confuse-a-Cat" "Scott of the Antarctic/Sahara" ("It says in my contract, I fight the lion!") and Graham Chapman in an Army uniform complete with pink tutu saying, "Stop that!"

Hate crass humour. Don't even suggest Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell to me. Life's too short for potty gags.
Vetalia
04-08-2007, 23:04
Frasier

Don't laugh

Are you kidding? Frasier is my favorite sitcom of all time!
Angry Swedish Monkeys
05-08-2007, 01:09
I like a lot of dry, sarcastic, or ironic humor, as well as a lot of dark humor. But then I also like stuff like Who's Line Is It Anyway.
GreaterPacificNations
05-08-2007, 04:50
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12938314#post12938314
Soheran
05-08-2007, 04:53
Very dry sarcasm.
Neo Undelia
05-08-2007, 05:18
Are you kidding? Frasier is my favorite sitcom of all time!

I second this.
Dinaverg
05-08-2007, 05:26
*shrug* Try me, I could go for anything.
Domici
05-08-2007, 06:55
Provide something you think funny, or somehow define your sense of humour.

That Carrie Underwood song where she mocks her ex-boyfriends new girlfriend for being "white trash" while she herself is smashing the guy's truck with a baseball bad and praising herself for liking to drink straight whiskey.

Hilarious.

That and how every Republican who decides that the eradication of a particular sin is his raison d'etre turns out to be up to his eyeballs in that particular sin.
Thedrom
05-08-2007, 07:40
Dead babies.
Damaske
05-08-2007, 08:14
That Carrie Underwood song where she mocks her ex-boyfriends new girlfriend for being "white trash" while she herself is smashing the guy's truck with a baseball bad and praising herself for liking to drink straight whiskey.

Hilarious.



Before He Cheats

" I dug my key into the side
of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats...
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...

Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."

Yeah priceless!:p
The Loyal Opposition
05-08-2007, 08:46
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Hopscotch_to_oblivion.jpg/450px-Hopscotch_to_oblivion.jpg
Pezalia
05-08-2007, 08:52
I second this.

Well that's three of us.

Niles: "My opinion matters. And to think I owe it all to my small column"
Frasier: "That would be the Freudian interpretation"

LOL funny penis joke

:cool:
IL Ruffino
05-08-2007, 08:52
*shrug* Try me, I could go for anything.

The View.
Philosopy
05-08-2007, 09:01
A man walks into a bar with a wooden leg called Smith. I ask what the other one is called.
Interwebz
05-08-2007, 10:48
Old memex.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/8/8d/Pissinondoods.jpg
[NS:]Knotthole Glade
05-08-2007, 12:57
I really liked Rowan Atkinson's Black Adder series.
Rejistania
05-08-2007, 16:05
I like Schadenfreude, black humour, nerdy humour and so on. The BOfH was a great piece of humour. especially the 4 MB scene:

Back into Jimmy Stewart mode.
"Well, let's see, you have 4 Meg available"
"Wow! Eight Meg in total, thanks!" he says, pleased with his bargaining power
"No" I interrupt, savouring this like a fine red at room temperature, with steak, extra rare, to follow; "4 Meg in total.."
"Huh? I'd used 4 Meg already, How could I have 4 Meg Available?"
I say nothing. It'll come to him.
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhH!"
Bolol
05-08-2007, 16:09
My sense of humor is somewhat complicated.

I like slapstick...so long as it isn't too obvious.

I like "intelligent" humor...so long as I can get the joke.

Which means I like every kind of comedy from the yuk-yuks of the Three Stooges to the outrageous comedy of Monty Python to the parody of Mel Brooks to the sarcasm of Lewis Black.

I'm MUCH more clear on what I don't like...

...In this order:

3: Yo' Mama comedy

2: Bad Puns (if I can figure it out without thinking, then it's bad)

1: Toilet humor

...But for some strange reason, I still like Jackass...I don't know why...
SaintB
05-08-2007, 16:22
I find a lot of things funny... I think I have a well rounded and developed sense of humor...
Johnny B Goode
05-08-2007, 17:15
My sense of humor is somewhat complicated.

I like slapstick...so long as it isn't too obvious.

I like "intelligent" humor...so long as I can get the joke.

Which means I like every kind of comedy from the yuk-yuks of the Three Stooges to the outrageous comedy of Monty Python to the parody of Mel Brooks to the sarcasm of Lewis Black.

I'm MUCH more clear on what I don't like...

...In this order:

3: Yo' Mama comedy

2: Bad Puns (if I can figure it out without thinking, then it's bad)

1: Toilet humor

...But for some strange reason, I still like Jackass...I don't know why...

You, sir, have good taste. I agree with you on the Stooges, Python and Mel Brooks. I don't know about Lewis Black, but I like George Carlin, who's basically a sarcastic, misanthropic, bastard.
Dakini
05-08-2007, 17:45
You, sir, have good taste. I agree with you on the Stooges, Python and Mel Brooks. I don't know about Lewis Black, but I like George Carlin, who's basically a sarcastic, misanthropic, bastard.
<3 George Carlin.
Turquoise Days
05-08-2007, 17:49
I seem to love form versus content humour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form-versus-content_humour), perhaps best demonstrated by BBC Radio 4s I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_A_Clue#Humour). General surreality in any way is a good thing.
Lunatic Goofballs
05-08-2007, 18:35
More. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noznyMaVEs8
Johnny B Goode
05-08-2007, 19:44
<3 George Carlin.

Yeah. "And now, in the interest of equal time, a message from the National Institute of Pancakes. Fuck waffles." :p
The Atlantian islands
05-08-2007, 20:16
Family guy.

Also, I find it extremely funny when someone trips.
Smunkeeville
05-08-2007, 20:27
I have a very dark and dry sense of humor. It's pretty bad. I have to double filter just to keep people from thinking I am a psychopath.

My husband's sense of humor is the same only he is very pun-y so he can cover it up more.

I have seen my double filter not work before and people are shocked and disgusted......except for the people who get the joke, then they laugh, then they feel bad for laughing, then they act shocked and disgusted.
Present Day Comatica
05-08-2007, 20:33
Sarcasm. About 50% of the words my close friend and I exchange are sarcastic. I've been told that it's great just to watch a conversation between the two of us.

Other forms are This Is Spinal Tap (people trying to sound smart but sound stupid in the process) and The Blues Brothers (just plain wackiness).
Kaze1985
05-08-2007, 20:56
dry and deep thinking. word like freedom make me lafe becouse wene i think about them. i find a lot of theme tend to be falc. kinday like we aer not slaves. i find these funny be couse we are we wokr for money backe by nothing but faeth and thene have to paly tax's on it. and we see noting posetive out of it at list not here in the us. so now i say i'm a slave to the econamey.:upyours:
Infinite Revolution
05-08-2007, 23:11
indefineable.
New Malachite Square
05-08-2007, 23:13
Knotthole Glade;12938952']I really liked Rowan Atkinson's Black Adder series.

Queen Elizabeth rules! :D
GBrooks
05-08-2007, 23:15
Bad Taste parties are funny

Bad taste pirates are funny.
Amur Panthera Tigris
05-08-2007, 23:25
Knotthole Glade;12938952']I really liked Rowan Atkinson's Black Adder series.

Seconded
The Brevious
06-08-2007, 04:11
Provide something you think funny, or somehow define your sense of humour.

Futurama.

And, my sig.

The rest, certain conceptual realignments that i do on frequent basis here.
Soviet Houston
06-08-2007, 04:21
Monty Python

Fifthed.

I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King! You and all your silly English "kniggits!"

What, behind the rabbit? It IS the rabbit!

Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-splendenschlitter-crasscrenbonfried-diggerdingledangledongledungle Burstein von Knackerthrasher-applebangerhorowitz-ticolensicgranderknottyspelltinkle-grundlichgrumblemeyerspelterwasser-kurstlichhimbleeisenbahnwagen guten Abend bitte ein Nurnburger-bratwurstlegerspurtenmitzweim-acheluberhundsfutgumberaber-schonendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittleraucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

And now for something completely different: a man with a tape recorder up his BROTHER's nose.

Hungarian: "I will not buy this record. It is scratched."
Tobacco store clerk: "Oh, no, no, this is a tobacconist's." (*Hungarian looks at him puzzled*) "Tobacconist's."
(*They point at each other as if the message were finally understood*)
Hungarian: "I will not buy this tobacconist's. It is scratched."

Mel Brooks.

Oh, YEAH man! I LOVE those!

From Blazing Saddles:

The fool's going to - I mean the SHERIFF's going to do it!
Horses? We can't afford to lose no horses! Send in a coupla n****** (*racial slur deleted*)
Send a wire to the main office, and tell 'em that I said (*gets hit on the back of the head with a shovel*) OWWWWWWWWW!
(*writing*) Send wire - main office - tell-them-I-said-OW! Gotcha! (*walks off*)
Howard Johnson's Ice Cream Parlor: 1FLAVOR
I also loved the "LePetomane Thruway" because Slim Pickens and his gang weren't intelligent enough to RIDE AROUND THE D*** THING! LMAO just thinking about it

From Spaceballs:
(*two monkey men like from "Planet Of The Apes" ride up on horseback and see Mel Brooks and Rick Moranis crawling out of Statue of Liberty*)

One monkey man: Spaceballs!
Other monkey man: Oh, s***! There goes the planet!
Soviet Houston
06-08-2007, 04:34
Knotthole Glade;12938952']I really liked Rowan Atkinson's Black Adder series.

I liked Johnny English, which starred Rowan Atkinson. That was a funny movie.

"May all your daughters be born with three bottoms" LMAO

Also, the "Soviet" reversal jokes I find on NS occasionally, such as "On Soviet Earth, oxygen breathes YOU!" That's why I decided to call myself "Soviet Houston".

I also like Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker movies, such as the "Airplane" movies:
"Surely you can't be serious!" "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

I also like funny parts in movies that aren't intended to be funny, because due to the element of surprise that makes their funny parts even more funny. For example in Superman II:
Zod: "Come to me, Superman! If you dare! I defy you! Come! Come and KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!" (emphasis mine)
You would expect Zod to say something like "Come and fight me and we shall see if you really are 'super'!" But no, what does Zod say? He says "Come and kneel before Zod!" Yeah, like THAT's gonna happen:
(*Superman knocks on the door of the White House*)
Superman: "Hello? Is General Zod there?"
Zod: "Who is it?"
Superman: "I'm Superman. I've come to kneel before you."

And again, when Superman finally does come to see Zod, what does Zod say? "Come to me, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!"
I find it side-splittingly hilarious that Zod thinks so highly of himself that he expects Superman to just come and kneel before him without putting up any kind of a fight whatsoever. Also by just standing there and saying that instead of immediately lunging at Superman, Zod foolishly gives Superman a few vaulable seconds to get away, leaving Zod standing there, basically talking to himself, commanding Superman to kneel before him.
JuNii
06-08-2007, 07:16
Oh, YEAH man! I LOVE those!

I love his early stuff. Blazing Saddles, To Be or Not To Be, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, History of the World: Part 1,

anything after Spaceballs tho...

and who can forget Silent Movie... where Marcel Marceu had THE ONLY SPEAKING LINE in the whole movie!

Marcel Marceau: Non!
[NS:]Knotthole Glade
06-08-2007, 07:24
I liked Johnny English, which starred Rowan Atkinson. That was a funny movie.

"May all your daughters be born with three bottoms" LMAO

Also, the "Soviet" reversal jokes I find on NS occasionally, such as "On Soviet Earth, oxygen breathes YOU!" That's why I decided to call myself "Soviet Houston".

I also like Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker movies, such as the "Airplane" movies:
"Surely you can't be serious!" "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

I also like funny parts in movies that aren't intended to be funny, because due to the element of surprise that makes their funny parts even more funny. For example in Superman II:
Zod: "Come to me, Superman! If you dare! I defy you! Come! Come and KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!" (emphasis mine)
You would expect Zod to say something like "Come and fight me and we shall see if you really are 'super'!" But no, what does Zod say? He says "Come and kneel before Zod!" Yeah, like THAT's gonna happen:
(*Superman knocks on the door of the White House*)
Superman: "Hello? Is General Zod there?"
Zod: "Who is it?"
Superman: "I'm Superman. I've come to kneel before you."

And again, when Superman finally does come to see Zod, what does Zod say? "Come to me, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!"
I find it side-splittingly hilarious that Zod thinks so highly of himself that he expects Superman to just come and kneel before him without putting up any kind of a fight whatsoever. Also by just standing there and saying that instead of immediately lunging at Superman, Zod foolishly gives Superman a few vaulable seconds to get away, leaving Zod standing there, basically talking to himself, commanding Superman to kneel before him.

I don't really understand the soviet jokes,but the Superman stuff made me lol.
I forgot to mention Austin Powers.
Goldmember:"You're toight like a toiger!"
New Malachite Square
06-08-2007, 07:47
Seconded

Well, hurrah!
Rambhutan
06-08-2007, 10:44
Anything involving ducks or talking dogs.
Johnny B Goode
06-08-2007, 15:05
Oh, YEAH man! I LOVE those!

From Blazing Saddles:

The fool's going to - I mean the SHERIFF's going to do it!
Horses? We can't afford to lose no horses! Send in a coupla n****** (*racial slur deleted*)
Send a wire to the main office, and tell 'em that I said (*gets hit on the back of the head with a shovel*) OWWWWWWWWW!
(*writing*) Send wire - main office - tell-them-I-said-OW! Gotcha! (*walks off*)
Howard Johnson's Ice Cream Parlor: 1FLAVOR
I also loved the "LePetomane Thruway" because Slim Pickens and his gang weren't intelligent enough to RIDE AROUND THE D*** THING! LMAO just thinking about it

From Spaceballs:
(*two monkey men like from "Planet Of The Apes" ride up on horseback and see Mel Brooks and Rick Moranis crawling out of Statue of Liberty*)

One monkey man: Spaceballs!
Other monkey man: Oh, s***! There goes the planet!

What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here?
Pure Metal
06-08-2007, 15:20
i remember taking a humour type test on the net one time... can't remember what i got. but i like Black Books, Spaced, Frasier, Scrubs, Father Ted, Futurama, Family Guy, old Red Dwarf, Bill Bailey, things like that :)
Gravlen
06-08-2007, 16:41
Anything that makes me laugh, really. And that's a bit! :p
Katganistan
06-08-2007, 16:49
Provide something you think funny, or somehow define your sense of humour.

Strange. Definitely strange.

I like Pratchett, Monty Python, Black Adder, and puns.

Epic Movie was so horrifyingly bad I think I kind of giggled once. Or sneezed. Not sure. Might have been flatulence, actually.

Before He Cheats

" I dug my key into the side
of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats...
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...

Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."

Yeah priceless!:p

Carved her name into the leather seats?
What an idiot. Hello, Judge Judy. :D
Katurkalurkmurkastan
06-08-2007, 16:53
If I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA Helicase, so I could unzip your jeans.

Why did the white bear drown in the water? Because it was Polar.
Katganistan
06-08-2007, 17:00
If I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA Helicase, so I could unzip your jeans.

Why did the white bear drown in the water? Because it was Polar.

Just 'cause I'm gneiss, don't take me for granite.
The Atlantian islands
06-08-2007, 17:01
Why are Black people so tall?

Because they're negroes.

(Get it, their knee-grows):D
Dinaverg
06-08-2007, 17:02
Who are Black people so tall?

Because they're negroes.

(Get it, their knee-grows):D

Wouldn't your knee growing just inhibit movement?
The Atlantian islands
06-08-2007, 17:06
Wouldn't your knee growing just inhibit movement?
Hehe, that reply was almost as funny as the joke itself.:D
Katurkalurkmurkastan
06-08-2007, 17:32
Just 'cause I'm gneiss, don't take me for granite.
I wish I was adenine, so I could be paired with U!
Johnny B Goode
06-08-2007, 18:18
I wish I was adenine, so I could be paired with U!

Katganistan is thymine? :confused:
New Stalinberg
06-08-2007, 19:03
Dry, sarcastic, and just a bit dark.

Same, just like my pops.
Turquoise Days
06-08-2007, 19:17
Just 'cause I'm gneiss, don't take me for granite.

*smites*

Why didn't the Coal say anything to the Oil? Because it was petrified!
Neo Bretonnia
06-08-2007, 21:19
Spontaneous

edit: (which is just a diplomatic way of saying I am a smartass)