What's your brand of humour?

[sillygeezer10]

I'm a omnicomedist which I use all forms of humour from the lowbrow to the mega satirical. But I'd like to hear from you all, what's your brand? Jokes or Irony or Sarcasm or Falibau? Whatever I can appericate, it is. Shoot your mouth off!

 

[CaptainXeroid]

Me too! In fact, I'm a little leery of people who don't enjoy humour. Two of the funniest things I enjoy right now are Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and 'Props' on Whose Line is it Anyway. Quick jokes that don't take too long to set up. :biglaugh:

 

[sillygeezer10]

I like Black Books, The office, the simpsons. They're my Holy trinity of comedy!

 

[Master Vigil]

I like all kinds of comedy, but I love stupid comedy... Like the hotshots movies, mel brooks movies. Oh yeah!

 

[Lookingformeaning]

I like to believe I am a very humourous person, but I think my style is sarcasm...and it works pretty good. lol

 

[Melody]

I love all types of humor from Larry the Cable Guy to Capitol Steps.


I don't particularly care for slapstick or the "dumb and dumber" type humor of "Airplane", "Earnest does whatever" and others of that ilk.

 

[Halcyon]

Family Guy is King for me! In my day to day life i use sarchasm the most, i can't tell jokes to save my life, my memory sucks.

 

[cardero]

I love British comedy because of the extremes. It could be slapstick or it could be very sophisticated. It is also very smart and well thought out. It also translates easy to literature.

I like black or dark humor.

I love awareness comedy. Mystery Science Theater 3000 dealt with this. Many of my friends never understood all of the references that MST3000 used in their comedy because they were never really aware of the people, events, situations that they were making fun of. What is nice about this is if you do not get a joke, years later after you became more aware, you would pick up on it with a subsequent viewing and finally get the joke. Warner Bros. cartoons were notorious for this.

I also appreciate a joke at anothers expense and if the "other person" laughs you know that it was a funny joke and that they get it. This is what I call enlightened humor. Todays prime time or adult animated shows deal a lot with this. Simpsons and Family Guy take a lot of shots at religion and culture and this is what I would consider enlightened humor.

 

[Jaymes]

I like sharp, biting humor, even if it's at my expense.

 

[ayani]

i love absured stuff. Family Guy is hilarious..... i also love "The Golden Girls" and "Seinfeld".

 

[michel]

I find humour is so subjective; things that will 'double me up' leave Marie staring into space, with a vacant look on her face.
Of course I am biassed; The Office was great, but the very best commedy was around in the sixties; The goons, The two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker-fabulously funny man & Ronnie Corbet); Another duo that was incredible was 'Morcame & Wise' -they once did a 'skit' to the 'stripper's tune' when they were both in the kitchen preparing breakfast - every thing was so well timed, you'd have been forgiven for thinking that the music had been written for that show. The Goodies..well, there are so many I could go on all night. Victoria Wood, an excellent pianist, who sang 'Birds do it, bees do it, even educated flees do it....' Which, of course takes us on to Victor Borge, and one of the best -Les Dawson.......I'm rambling!!!:jiggy:

 

[Valjean]

I like dry, acerbic wit. a la Churchill, and Monty Pythonesque comedy.

 

[cardero]

I find humour is so subjective; things that will 'double me up' leave Marie staring into space, with a vacant look on her face.
Of course I am biassed; The Office was great, but the very best commedy was around in the sixties; The goons, The two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker-fabulously funny man & Ronnie Corbet); :jiggy:

Michel do you remember Peter Sellers in A Show Called Fred? Did I get the title right?

 

[Saw11_2000]

I use sarcasm mainly. The other types of humor are just sooo funny.

 

[Scuba Pete]

One of these days, I am going to try my hand at creating some puns.

Maybe even a parody or a hundred.

We'll add some humorous stories to round things out!.

 

[Bastet]

While I love almost all types of humour when it comes to tv shows etc., I probably tend to use sarcasm and 'gutter' humour the most (ala 'Are You Being Served?'). I can find sexual innuendo in practically anything. It's a gift.

 

[Majikthise]

Sarcasm and puns.:biglaugh:

 

[michel]

Been trying to remember the name since I last posted;


Rowan & Martin's laugh-in (This was one of my very great favourites in the late sixties)

 

[The Voice of Reason]

I love humor and comedy in all of it's forms - with the caveat that some people have mastered a given form, while others just practice it. For example, the "slapstick" form of comedy was hilarious when I was a kid - the Three Stooges could put me in the floor, while the Keystone Cops were not as funny (at least, not to me).

As I have aged, I grew to appreciate the cerebral side of comedy more, and the physical side less (although Kramer's physicality on Seinfeld still breaks me up). The way he enters a room and his hair kind of "waves" as he skids to a stop - killer.

To me, understated sarcasm is the apex of comedy and humor. I find some of Deut's posts on here (especially the one or two sentence shots) to be incredibly hilarious. Sarcasm like that is all the better if the target is to thick to realize what just happened.

Seyorni mentioned Churchill, and I would put Deut in that class - along with the wit of Oscar Wilde. I find English humor to be dryer than American humor, and I love it even more, when I "get it".

As someone else already posted, I have absolutely no problem at all with being the butt of a joke. I have little use for people that take offense when it is their turn in the barrel.

As a rule, I do not really like to read puns, but I do enjoy them when spoken. A pun seems to lose something to me, when it has to be explained (which is implicit in writing). I really like to stumble across the unintentional pun - where the author doesn't realize what he/she has done. After having met NetDoc, I may never be able to read another pun again....

TVOR

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Humour?