# What do you never find funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169 "2011-03-18T16:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/181 "2011-04-04T11:37:28Z")
> [@Chapulin](#): > > Some people are ignorant and assume all light skinned people in the u.s are from the u.s, when many of them are actually hispanic. If you are in the US, you assume that the people you see are from the US. If you are in Spain, you assume that the people you see are from Spain. If you are in Sweden, you assume that the people you see are from Sweden. And Hispanics come in all colors, many of us (for example your professor) are Hispanic and white. It is NOT a color classification, it is a cultural one. And for fuck’s sake, are you telling me that you really believe that it is not possible to be “from the u.s” and “hispanic” at the same time? Because if you do, I’ll give **Bricker** and **MrBusGuy** to name two the ground and ask them to spell things out. ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/182 "2011-04-04T20:37:18Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > A couple of people have said this, and it has made me stop and think about it - I can’t think of any examples of people trying to be funny by hurting an animal. Do you (or anyone else) have any specific examples of this? (And I agree, for the record - an animal doesn’t understand that it’s being hurt for a joke.) I can remember a Youtube animal video that I thought was awful but it received so many comments about how funny it was. I commented (don’t know why I bothered!!) that I felt sorry for the poor dog. The dog was lying on his side asleep and he was obviously dreaming. His legs start moving like he’s running in his dream. At one point he lifts his head to start snapping over his shoulder. All of a sudden he jumps up, obviously still asleep, and runs head first into the wall. Judging by his actions, he was afraid of something in his dream. NOT funny to me… of course it hurt to run head first into a wall. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/z2BgjH_CtIA/hqdefault.jpg "Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA) I’ve also never thought it was funny to laugh at someone when they trip and fall or fall in some other way. My first instinct is to help them. After I check to see if they’re ok, then I might recall the look on their face or the position they landed in as being funny BUT only after it happens. I’ve seen so many people instantly start hooting with laughter while the unfortunate person lies writhing in pain on the ground. I don’t get it !!! ---
**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:** [April 5, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/183 "2011-04-05T00:40:43Z")
Larry the cable not only isn’t funny he is gross. Howard Stern. George Lopez. Black comedians that use the n-word in their punch line. (My g/f doesn’t like punch lines that end with a female body part. :rolleyes: ) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/184 "2011-04-05T17:07:20Z")
Slapstick. The Three Stooges. Hate it. Mr. Sali loves it and will sit there laughing like an azzhole, clapping his hands with glee. I’ve laughed hysterically at Howard Stern, though. Some years ago the radio with his show was on, and Mr. Sali came in with some serious news about some tangled finances. We were sitting there discussing what to do, and HS was on, and we’re trying to have a serious discussion about what to do…and we couldn’t help but break up with laughter. As long as you can still laugh… ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/185 "2011-04-05T19:26:42Z")
> [@lukeinva](#): > > Larry the cable not only isn’t funny he is gross. > Howard Stern. > George Lopez. > Black comedians that use the n-word in their punch line. > > (My g/f doesn’t like punch lines that end with a female body part. :rolleyes: ) … mulva? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/186 "2011-04-22T01:50:06Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > Some great examples in this thread. Other tedious humor… > > people who think they’re being very witty by repeating bumper sticker slogans that everyone’s seen a thousand times. Countless times I’ve heard “when I die, they can bury me upside down so the whole world can kiss my ass”, or “you know how a politician’s lying? His lips are moving”, but these kinds of slogans are always presented as if they’re the height of creativity. OH! (gnashes teeth) OH! (gnashes teeth again) OH! (gnashes teeth again) This. Very much this. OH! (gnashes teeth) OH! I CANNOT STAND THIS!!! Best wishes, hh ---
**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:** [April 22, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/187 "2011-04-22T15:58:36Z")
Another one that just occurred to me: humor based on repetition. That’s the thing that finally got me to stop watching David Letterman. He’ll milk a joke into the ground by repeating the punchline (see “Oprah…Uma” for a classic example) over. and over. and over…until it just goes from tedious to “I want to chuck a brick through the screen to shut him the hell _up_.”. Another example is a bit Jay Leno used to do (thankfully he seems to have given it up) where he’d do a whole series of rapid fire jokes (most of them stupid) and the bandleader would punctuate each with a short riff from “Hooray for Hollywood.” I hate repetition in general, and can’t figure out how anybody thinks it’s funny in the slightest. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169/188 "2011-04-23T18:38:01Z")
> [@Lucky\_13](#): > > Yeah, what the hell did she do to deserve all the abuse she gets? I don’t watch the show often, so I’m not sure why everyone hates her so much. There is no actual reason. Meg was designed to be a character that everyone always made fun of. I believe the joke is that there isn’t anything wrong with her–at least, nothing wrong with her that isn’t wrong with everyone else. Oh, and she’s also supposed to be ugly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-never-find-funny/575169.md?page=9)