# What's your humor style? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512 "2003-01-09T14:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/21 "2003-01-10T18:03:44Z")
1. I’m a satire fan and downright silliness tickles me happy. 2. [yes] Eugene Mirman, Bill Murray, the _Daily Show_ team, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Robert Smigel, Mike Judge, Broken Lizard, Al Franken, the cast from _The State_ 3. [no] Andrew Dice Clay, Dennis Leary, the Man Show (though I really like both Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel in everything else they do), Margaret Cho 4. funerals (can’t understand what I mean? you soon will) -wm ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/22 "2003-01-10T22:31:33Z")
1. I love sarcasm and witty comebacks (see sig line!). I’ve been giggling most of the evening at this joke from M_A_S\*H: “Is that a bomb?” “No, Frank, someone’s playing a World War Two album…” 1. I’m not into comedians, perhaps with the sole exception of Jerry Seinfeld… 2. Stupid dirty jokes. The witty ones are funny. The blatant ones are boring. 3. I love surreal moments. Like when something weird happens, par exemple, today, a pigeon flew into the window and startled everyone. In the silence, I started laughing. No-one else did(!) ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/23 "2003-01-11T03:00:49Z")
1. Double entendres, especially sex-based humor, Monty Python-type comedy, anything really thought provoking/surreal. Sarcasm. Impersonations are good, too. 2. George Carlin, The Firesign Theater, Will Ferrell, Monty Python, and the cast of Who’s Line is it, Anyway, I guess. 3. Clips of people falling down or getting nailed in the nuts-- especially when canned laughter is involved. Can’t get behind the whole, har, har, look, Jimmy, Ray got whacked with a mallet and now he’s cursing and cradling his junk! Whoo-oo! This is blatantly not amusing. 4. Infomercials. The Home Shopping Network. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/24 "2003-01-11T03:23:44Z")
**1. What are the styles of humor that you best appreciate?** Like many here, word play. Chandler, on _Friends_ is pretty funny. My humor is a like his. **2. Who are your favorite comedians?** Well, I don’t really like comedians that much in general. I guess George Carlin’s made me laugh. Steven Wright is funny. I guess there are others, but it would take a while for me to think of many. Ninety percent of comedians IMHO suck. And I rarely rent a comedy video and I usually don’t pause at all on the comedy station when I’m flipping channels . . . I guess I don’t like to sit there passively while people tell me jokes. I also don’t like most comedic movies, although there are a few sit-coms I like. **3. What styles of humor leave you cold?** Most racial humor. And I’m a pretty un-PC guy in a lot of ways. I guess most racial jokes have already been done a million times. I also dislike most body function jokes. Burps aren’t funny. Farts aren’t funny. **4. Do you find some things funny that other people don’t?** I often laugh at the news. I’ve laughed out loud in the theater during scenes where other people wince or make grossed-out oooing noises. I tend to empathize with characters in books quite a bit, including the bad guys, so I sometimes laugh along with them during scenes where I think I’m supposed to feel my testicles trying to retract. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/25 "2003-01-11T04:02:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MeanOldLady \* > \*\*You wanna know who’s an awesome comedian? Triumph the insult comic dog. No, seriously. Sure, his humor may not be best described as dry, sarcastic or witty, but I dare you to watch him and not laugh. If you need any proof that this man/puppet/whatever is freakin’ hilarious, just go [here](http://www.roysebrinkmeyersucks.com/triumph.html). You _will_ crack up. My favorites are the first two and the last one. > > 😃 \*\* Thank you thank you thank you! I love you! I kiss you! I want to have your babies! Can you tell I’ve been looking for some downloadable (non streamed) Triumph for a while? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/26 "2003-01-11T08:48:12Z")
Have my babies? Hahahahaha! Heh, you’re welcome. I’ve been looking for some triumph videos for a while too. I went on a mad internet search the other night and finally found some. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/27 "2003-01-11T09:19:02Z")
1. Ranting, satire, witty one-liners. Irony. Social satire. Self-deprecation. I enjoy obscure referential humor. I also love surreality, so I’m big on over-lapping but incompatible frames of reference. 2. Not too many. I love Eddie Izzard, Chris Rock, older Dennis Miller and Dennis Leary, some George Carlin. I love “The Onion”, and Cintra Wilson’s Salon columns. I think that show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is hilarious, but I never really liked “Seinfeld” too much. I found this little book called “Get Your War On” the other day, and it’s the funniest thing I’ve read in ages. 3. Many. Slapstick, bodily functions, crude sexuality, racial, ethnic, gender-bashing jokes, stupid people doing stupid things, pointless stunts, anything that deliberately singles out a specific person or group for circumstances beyond their control. Despite this, I’m not really very PC. It’s not that any of this particularly offends me, I just don’t find it funny. I don’t really laugh at puns or wordplay either, although I admire creativity. Language seems too serious a business to me to be funny in that sense. 4. Constantly. Any situation which is bizarre, ridiculous, or incongruous and unexpected. My style of humor is also very dark; where some people wince or turn away, I’ll laugh. But then, sometimes things just strike me as hilarious for no easily-explainable reason. This happens a lot while watching movies. For instance, I was watching _Fellowship of the Ring_ on DVD with my boyfriend the other day. During the “Council of Elrond” scene, there’s a point where Hugo Weaving is telling everyone what must be done in a very dramatic, authoritative voice, and he says that somebody has to take the ring to Mordor, etc., and he ends his little speech with the line “One of you must do this.” The camera pulls back and shows everyone sitting around. There’s dead silence. I crack up laughing every time, even though it’s supposed to be a very serious point in the film. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/28 "2003-01-11T16:03:17Z")
My influences in order of importance are: John Cleese (sarcasm and intentional rudeness a’la Fawlty Towers Monty Python as a whole (been watching it since I was 6!) George Carlin (smart and silly) Kermit the Frog Mel Brooks (just plain silliness) B. Kliban (this accounts for the surrealism in my humor) Buster Keaton ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/29 "2003-01-11T17:55:37Z")
1. Outrageous silliness and very subtle thoughts. 2)Monty Python, Robin Williams, the Kids in the Hall, Douglas Adams (hes kind of a comedian ain’t he?), Chris Rock, The Family Guy guy (Can’t remember his name, it was Seth something), Conan O’ Brien, Andy Richter. 2. Puns, mime. People making fun of people. 3. Oh lots of things. Sometimes lines that aren’t funny. Well, actually, a lot of lines that aren’t funny… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/30 "2003-01-12T00:49:12Z")
1. Satire; social critique; _some_ surreal absurdity; rants; well-done parody; deconstruction of language. 2. (a) Comedians and comedy performers/troupes: Carlin (up until a few years ago – but his older stuff dealing with the use and abuse of language is just extraordinary); Python, absolutely (and I loved _The Secret Policeman’s Balls_ – Peter Cook et al); Alexei Sayle in the 80s; early Dennis Leary/Dennis Miller; Martin, Pryor; Steven Wright, Sam Kinnison; Marx Brothers; Smothers Brothers. \*a limited amount of \* Gallagher. 3. (b)Comedic/satirical _writing_: Anything by Will Cuppy (_The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody; How to Attract the Wombat; How to Become Extinct_); Joaquín Lavado a.k.a. QUINO (Argentinian cartoonist – though he has been getting a bit ‘heavy’ for my taste in his old age); Douglas Adams’ first 4 volumes of the HHGG Trilogy; the 3 Woody Allen books (Without Feathers/Getting Even/Side Effects) and most of his films; Mark Russell (what can I say, I work in politics); older Dave Barry; MAD up 'til Gaines died; the Onion. 4. Another one who passes on physiological humor. Really, I only liked ONE joke from anyone related to intestinal function. 5. Ocassionally this will happen. But it’s hard to predict when it will happen. Sometimes it results in my brother looking at me like “Oh my God, and _you_ are the one we all count on to be the stable one?”. Others it results in my date for the night having a dull ending… ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/31 "2003-01-12T01:32:15Z")
**1. What are the styles of humor that you best appreciate?** British humor (Monty Python, Bridget Jones, Red Dwarf…) Any kind of humor that observes daily life and points out the absurdities (The Daily Show, Jane Austen, South Park) **2. Who are your favorite comedians?** Jerry Seinfeld, Paula Poundstone, Spalding Gray (yes, I know, not technically a comedian) **3. What styles of humor leave you cold?** Anything racist, fart-based, or truly mean-spirited, anything that makes an unwitting fool of someone, like crank call shows. **4. Do you find some things funny that other people don’t?** British humor, **Raising Arizona** , **Joe Vs. the Volcano** ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/32 "2003-01-12T02:43:53Z")
Often poorly timed and sometimes too cryptic. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512/33 "2003-01-13T05:01:58Z")
1. What are the styles of humor that you best appreciate? Sarcasm, dry, subtle. I really love Douglas Adams’ style of humor. That said, I do enjoy a profanity-laced tirade as well. 2. Who are your favorite comedians? Denis Leary, and to some extent, George Carlin. Also a little bit of Chris Rock. 3. What styles of humor leave you cold? Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, and Jim Carrey movies. Not that I don’t enjoy dick and fart jokes (I love old South Park and Kevin Smith movies), but they just strike me as too juvenile even for poop jokes. 4. Do you find some things funny that other people don’t? I like dark humor a lot more than most people. I laughed my ass off at “Falling Down” and “Three Kings”, and those weren’t exactly “ha-ha funny” movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-humor-style/147512.md?page=1)