# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/41 "2011-06-21T02:26:23Z")
> [@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? We could definitely hang. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/42 "2011-06-21T03:31:05Z")
Not “jokes,” really, but most of the time, I find stories at [www.notalwaysright.com](http://www.notalwaysright.com) to be very funny. Sometimes, they just make me stabby. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/43 "2011-06-21T03:53:02Z")
Okay, lots of mine already listed: Lines from _The Princess Bride_ Lines from _Monty Python_ Fake lottery tickets I have to ask for clarification. There seems to be a lot of dislike for Black comedians in certain contexts. (And to be clear, “White Chicks” and “Big Momma’s House” aren’t funny to me, either.) I call it the reverse-Midas touch: Anything that the lesser Wayans touch turns to shit. Anyway… is it these particular “comedies” or just the fact that Black folks in comedies aren’t funny? ---
**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 21, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/44 "2011-06-21T04:02:42Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Anyway… is it these particular “comedies” or just the fact that Black folks in comedies aren’t funny? As noted upthread, it’s only when they pander to the “urban” market that they’re unfunny. To us in the suburban market anyway. Did you know that suburban people drive like this and urban people drive like that? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/45 "2011-06-21T04:17:22Z")
> [@Elret](#): > > I don’t mean jokes that you are offended by or don’t get, I mean jokes that surprise you with their popularity. > > My most current example is the Go the F to Sleep phenomenon. I’m a parent and believe me, I get the whole holy-shit-would-you-just-go-to-sleep thing, but I just don’t find it all that clever. Yet everyone I know is obsessed with this thing and seem to find it amazingly hilarious. I’ve never seen this joke. I don’t think I have anyway, do you have an example? Mine is very similar to yours, I find bathroom humor, especially fart jokes, boring as hell. And like you, it’s not that I’m a prude, it’s that it’s just not funny or clever, it’s OLD and overdone, (again and again and again and again…). Any joke that could have been made up by two pimply-faced 13 year old boys out in back of the gym, while sneaking smokes is just stupid and scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel. Dirty jokes can be funny, but they must be intelligent and clever to be so, most aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/46 "2011-06-21T04:36:27Z")
Mexican food and/or Taco Bell jokes Pussy smelling/tasting like fish jokes Taking a magic marker to someone who’s passed out drunk Shows where someone hears someone else incorrectly and there’s a big misunderstanding played for laughs until the last possible second (this is probably why I was never a big fan of sitcoms). ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/47 "2011-06-21T04:39:23Z")
Jon Stewart. I like some of the correspondents on _The Daily Show_ on the odd occasions I catch them, but I can’t for the life of me understand Stewart’s popularity. ---
**Author:** ![notsoheavyd3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85e7bf/32.png) [@notsoheavyd3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notsoheavyd3)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/48 "2011-06-21T04:55:26Z")
Oh it’s easy for me, just 2 words. “More cowbell” (Man did I think that skit was painfully unfunny.) ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/49 "2011-06-21T05:39:35Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > As noted upthread, it’s only when they pander to the “urban” market that they’re unfunny. To us in the suburban market anyway. > > Did you know that suburban people drive like this and urban people drive like that? I think they’re insulting to black people. BUT, I thought White Chicks was actually kinda funny. That’s like, the only one though. They really did act like white girls (although the makeup clearly did not look like white girls) ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/50 "2011-06-21T05:47:53Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > As noted upthread, it’s only when they pander to the “urban” market that they’re unfunny. To us in the suburban market anyway. > > Did you know that suburban people drive like this and urban people drive like that? Chris Rock had a bit about this on his old show, a recurring sketch about a comedian named Controversy LaRue. He’d say, “Black people read books like this. But white people read books like this!” and do some crazy shit, like dump a bucket of water on his head. It was hilarious because it made fun of this lazy observational “humor” that passes as comedy. There are racial/cultural differences and with the right delivery, it can be funny. Watch some Richard Pryor concerts and you’ll see what I mean. But yeah, just saying that Black people smoke weed and white people have tight butts doesn’t do much for me. ---
**Author:** ![sjankis630](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sjankis630](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjankis630)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/51 "2011-06-21T05:56:39Z")
the movies **Borat** and **Bruno** too. I hate hate hate those! Notice I don’t say Sacha Baron Cohen because I think he has genuine talent. I guess you could lump me in the group that hates movies or shows where someone is always made to look stupid. Never funny IMHO. I always think that Cohen will be famous later in his career for some real roles showing his talent, but it will be empty because no one will remember him for anything but his Borat and Ali G stuff. While we are at it gross out movies involving someone doing something embarassing like shitting themselves are not funny either. How can that be funny? **Bridesmaids** I am looking at you. ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/52 "2011-06-21T09:10:47Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Jon Stewart. I like some of the correspondents on _The Daily Show_ on the odd occasions I catch them, but I can’t for the life of me understand Stewart’s popularity. I’m the exact opposite. With only a few exceptions, I would prefer the entire show to avoid the skits and stick with the desk. ---
**Author:** ![TheBori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@TheBori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBori)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001/53 "2011-06-21T13:14:41Z")
Pretty much every episode of “Three’s Company”. The entire genre of mistaken perception: Someone walks in on an innocent activity and thinks that its something else. It annoys me. Just explain what was going on and end the show in 5 minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-everyone-but-you-finds-funny/586001.md?page=2)