# Jokes everyone but you finds funny **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001 "2011-06-19T02:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/21 "2011-06-19T18:16:15Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I can’t remember ever enjoying fart jokes. > > I dislike jokes that have to do with the subject being hurt- like “Ow my balls!” from Idiocracy and poor Roger in the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I always just wind up feeling incredibly bad for the person. > > Edit: > Hm, I wonder… Well, the joke in Idiocracy isn’t that the guy gets kicked in the balls, it’s that society devolved so far that “Ow My Balls!” Is a hit show. Joe ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/22 "2011-06-19T18:36:18Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Well, the joke in Idiocracy isn’t that the guy gets kicked in the balls, it’s that society devolved so far that “Ow My Balls!” Is a hit show. > > Joe I think we’re already at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/23 "2011-06-19T19:01:59Z")
Any fish-out-of-water type humor, where the main character has switched bodies with someone else, and now they have to try and navigate through that person’s world (like Freaky Friday). I don’t find awkward social moments in real life funny, why would I laugh at them in fiction? Most pranks aren’t funny, either. If they don’t involve physical injury, humiliation, or property damage, then I can get behind them (one of the senior pranks for my high school involved creating an imaginary student, then having him run for class president…THAT was funny). But if any of the above are present, forget about it. Even more generally, I just don’t find jokes that are all “HEY THIS IS A JOKE LAUGH AT IT” all that funny. When it comes to comedy, I much prefer subtlety. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/24 "2011-06-19T19:10:32Z")
mel brooks. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/25 "2011-06-19T19:18:59Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Fake winning lottery tickets. That’s not a funny thing to do to your friends, really. What if they are, unknown to you, in dire financial straights? Torturing your friends is not cool in my book. > > Toys that give you a mild electrical jolt. Read the fine print ‘can cause death’ to people with undiagnosed heart conditions. Who wants to realize their friend must have had a heart condition while they’re lying dead on your livingroom floor? All for a cheap gag, no thanks. > > Punked. Sorry, it’s not funny for me, it’s obnoxious. Likewise Jackass. I see the appeal to the less mature, but it’s not for me. > > Men dressed as women. The Brit’s never, ever, seem to tire of this. For me it was funny in 7th grade, and not since. > > The, ‘blowing your drink’, through your mouth or nose. Again, it was amusing as a child, but now that I’m an adult I find it trite. > > The three stooges. Yeah, I know I’m in the minority, but I found them offensive to my intelligence when I was 7. Whatever floats your boat, but these leave me scratching my head cause I’m just not seeing it. > > I like my humour less slapstick and, well, actually funny, y’know? I agree with every one of these,except Jackass, which I love! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/26 "2011-06-19T19:32:36Z")
Fart jokes and other bodily functions Stereotypes Foul language for no reason Humiliation or pain “humor” Really, anything that sends a junior high age boy into gales of laughter pretty much has no appeal for me. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/27 "2011-06-19T20:11:01Z")
> [@K364](#): > > \… to be washed with other clothes in a **shit stew**.\ bolding best belly laugh of the day! I just keep saying “shit stew” in my head and I can not stop laughing. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![xoferew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e9a140/32.png) [@xoferew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xoferew)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/28 "2011-06-19T21:00:45Z")
I hate TV ads where the joke is that the product is so good you can’t share it. I don’t like you, spoiled, selfish characters! It isn’t funny to grab some delicious food your family member was looking forward to and eat it yourself! Maybe no one actually finds those funny, though. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/29 "2011-06-20T01:08:17Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Comedies with black people in them. I mean movies like “Big Momma’s House” or “White Chicks”. > > I don’t like the parody movies that make fun of recent blockbuster movies either. Yet for some reason they make big bucks. This is a strange one. Is it the aversion to black people in general, or to the “humor” they are trying to deliver to you? Personally, I can’t stand Comedies with Martin Lawrence in them. Mainly because he can’t act for shit and I’m just not that interested looking up his nostrils (Death at a Funeral, I’m looking at you.) I know this sounds racist, but black comedians in front of a black audience are very difficult for me to watch and/or listen to. The swearing (especially the f-bombs), the grabbing of crotches and dick jokes, etc. just don’t work for me. I can understand if there are cultural references that I don’t get… that’s fine. But I don’t sense any sort of skill or intelligence at all in their acts. I always enjoyed Chris Rock and his comedy until I saw him in front of a black audience. He talks differently, he swears constantly, and he’s unrecognizable. I know… I’m whitey, and whitey don’t get it, but still… he’s literally two different human beings. There’s the white Chris Rock and there’s the real Chris Rock. It’s just strange. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/30 "2011-06-20T14:59:32Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Pretty much all of Caddy Shack You’ve insulted my favorite movie. Prepare to die. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/31 "2011-06-20T15:34:18Z")
Monty Python… ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/32 "2011-06-20T16:16:32Z")
Everything in _The Princess Bride_. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/33 "2011-06-20T16:17:54Z")
Said in offices, schools, and everywhere on the last day in December… “See you next year!” For whatever reason, that has done nothing but chap my ass since I was 7. Yeah, we should all have lives as devoid of pain as mine. 😉 But it still irritates me! Judd Apatow and the crude comedies of the past 10 years. _Knocked Up_, _Something about Mary_, _Wedding Crashers_… god, I cannot wait until there’s another seismic shift in what America Considers Funny because, other than the Coens, the past decade has sucked in regard to comedy movies. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/34 "2011-06-20T17:01:58Z")
The Three Stooges Anything from Jackass (or similar “frat boy” style humor) Drunk humor Almost all fart humor Anything involving tricking someone into being agitated or upset for the entertainment of others. Chimps. I hate chimps. They are never funny. Any joke or humor perpetrated by Adam Sandler. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/35 "2011-06-20T17:03:38Z")
Keep away! I fucking _hate_ keep away. Back in school, in the few times this was done to me, I never went after my item… I went after the person. One guy I planted my foot in his nuts, and grabbed the book as it fell from his hands. Got into a fight a couple of days later, but I acquitted myself well (let’s just say my other foot made its acquaintance with his nuts), so he went after easier targets. I’m getting pissed off just thinking about it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/36 "2011-06-20T17:14:42Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Fake winning lottery tickets. Yes. My colleague is putting her daughters through college and occasionally I can hear her on the phone lamenting about the cost. Well, last xmas she got a card with a fake lottery ticket that was a “winner” for $10,000. She called her friend to tell her (yay!) and then the friend let on that it was fake. Haha, good laugh for the friend. but total heartbreak for my colleague. Very cruel. Also.. black comedians and Hispanic comedians (especially George Lopez), etc etc… making fun of their own ethnic heritage. Not funny ever. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/37 "2011-06-20T21:45:32Z")
Hidden camera-type shows; Punk’d; Da Ali G Show; phone scams on some top-40 morning zoo-style radio shows. When the “humor” is based on some unsuspecting rube who then becomes the joke. I never understood how people found this funny. Also, America’s Funniest Home Videos. I guess I’m not American, because they’re not funny to me. ---
**Author:** ![HardlySanguine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HardlySanguine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HardlySanguine)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/38 "2011-06-20T21:54:55Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Skidmark jokes. All I can think of is people walking around with shit stuck to their underwear. Not stuck, but due to relentless lazy hygiene, ingrained forever in the fabric… to be washed with other clothes in a shit stew. > > Not funny. You know, I was in agreement with you. But I read [this](http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=60921) earlier and I thought it was funny. I don’t get referential humor. I don’t follow pop-culture, at all, so that’s probably part of it. But a joke that relies on me knowing who someone is or what they’ve done (even if I’ve heard of them) is rarely funny to me. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/39 "2011-06-20T22:12:06Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > [QUOTE=AClockworkMelon] > I can’t remember ever enjoying fart jokes. > > I dislike jokes that have to do with the subject being hurt- like “Ow my balls!” from Idiocracy and poor Roger in the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I always just wind up feeling incredibly bad for the person. > > Edit: > Hm, I wonder… Well, the joke in Idiocracy isn’t that the guy gets kicked in the balls, it’s that society devolved so far that “Ow My Balls!” Is a hit show. Joe [/QUOTE] have you watched \*Amercia’s Funniest Videos \*lately? We’re there, dude. The real kicker is that **Idiocracy** is a horror flick disguised as comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/40 "2011-06-20T23:18:58Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > mel brooks. Yes. Yes. And Yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001.md?page=3)