# What types of humor do you not "get"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872 "2009-05-09T20:26:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/141 "2011-02-07T17:57:29Z")
Practical jokes in movies are hilarious. In real life, they suck. But the one ‘genre’, if it is one, that I hate is the “Doesn’t Being Married Suck” schtick, ala Mr. Roper in _Three’s Company_ or the entire run of _Married With Children_. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/142 "2011-02-07T18:21:42Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > “That’s what she said!!!” type stuff. > [@phantom\_lamb](#): > > Like when someone in a movie says “Oh, come on, how hard could it _be_?” - you know the next scene will be a display of how they underestimated the difficulty of said task. _yawn_ Well, I can think of at least _one_ other thing that could follow when someone says that… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/143 "2011-02-07T18:50:45Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at a webcomic in my entire life. The webcomics that many people around here are infatuated with, such as XCKD or whatever it’s called, never appeal to me. The humor is just too smug. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/144 "2011-02-07T19:28:09Z")
Hate comedy: Racial jokes, homophobic jokes, misogynist jokes, fat jokes, pranking/practical jokes (depends on the joke and the intent), laughing at someone else’s pain (ball smashing clips, face plants) not funny. Making ugly jokes about _people_, especially things that are out of someone’s control (like race, gender, sexual orientation), I find to be really hateful and not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/145 "2011-02-07T19:41:10Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > Hate comedy: Racial jokes, homophobic jokes, misogynist jokes, fat jokes, pranking/practical jokes (depends on the joke and the intent), laughing at someone else’s pain (ball smashing clips, face plants) not funny. > > Making ugly jokes about _people_, especially things that are out of someone’s control (like race, gender, sexual orientation), I find to be really hateful and not funny. How do you feel about ethnocentric comedy? Sometimes a show relies on everyone being of a certain group, and the joke is on someone coming in from outside that group. (A fair number of boiler-plate off-Broadway comedies base these on Jewish families because they’re so familiar to local audiences.) I think it’s lame comedically _and_ questionable socially. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/146 "2011-02-07T21:05:22Z")
Like the OP, I don’t really like slapstick or scatological humor. There are exceptions. Certain certifiably insane humor writers (like Tom Holt) do really funny slapsticky screwball comedy. Dave Barry and Christopher Moore make decent body function jokes. But on the whole, seeing someone slipping on a banana just makes me wince in sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/147 "2011-02-07T21:37:10Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Oh gods. Tyler Perry is a supreme jackass He is! It is so beyond me why he’s so successful. My mom, of all people, kept trying to sell me on him for a while (you don’t know my mom so you don’t understand why that’s strange, but just take my word that it is). I think she saw him on Oprah or something? ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/148 "2011-02-09T19:37:39Z")
Jerky Boys type humor. A friend of mine would bust a gut laughing at this while I just sat there board. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872/149 "2011-02-09T19:47:42Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Actually, I can’t say that there is any genre of comedy that I just don’t get. Any genre of comedy can be funny as long as it is **done well.** It’s the done well part that makes the difference between funny and painful. The same. I think I’m more forgiving of certain types of comedy, for example, physical/slapstick has to be dead on for me to laugh while I think even mediocre farce is hilarious. But if it’s really, really well done, I’m probably going to find it funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-humor-do-you-not-get/495872.md?page=7)