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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat makes you laugh? I like a good funny joke. it can be a movie, tv show, comedian, a fart, joke
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or a funny situation
spooky3
(34,303 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)It's not that they're dirty or off-color, they're just infrequent and private material that I save in case I succeed in doing schtick. I actually wrote one routine because a slot was promised me pre-pandemic. I'm still waiting. I won't get to nudge the host until next February!
Humor changes over the years. What was funny in the 1980s can't cut it today.
I did like the Doonesbury cartoon from about 1987 about Trump T. Trump Airlines.
Can't tell Chris Christie jokes, you know where they lead and it's considered insensitive. Surprised I haven't been flagged for referring to "Boobert".
Sometimes small talk is the building blocks of standup. Sometimes knot. Knock wood.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,206 posts)Really. We humans are so fallible and a fall is the quintessential essence of that. In high school my friend and me were walking down the super crowded hallway to our next class. I weighed 105 pounds soaking wet and was carrying a huge load of books. 2 boys got into a shoving match and one flew into my side, knocking me into the lockers. My legs went under the weight of the books and being off-balance and I slithered, slow-motion-like, to the floor. Friend and me got to next class and we could not stop laughing. Got tossed out into the hallway by the teacher until we could gather ourselves. Fun.
Alpeduez21
(1,739 posts)Jerry Lewis makes me laugh
ICarly makes me laugh
Erma Bombeck makes me laugh
This kills me:
debm55
(23,584 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I mean, the obvious--Marx Brothers, Monty Python, 30s screwball, Carlin, Gilbert Gottfried, for that matter Johnny Carson's monologues. But the real gut laughter comes when I contemplate absurdities that seem, at the time, hysterical...yet when I look back on them, or describe them to others, it doesn't seem particularly amusing. It's just a you-had-to-be-there thing...
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Satire, sarcasm, impromptu situations and responses.
Dry humor... the British are great at it.
Sometimes facial expressions with no words. Benny Hill and Johnny Carson.
All of humor is based on life but it's funnier if it's someone else's life.
If it's your own life, it may take 20 or 30 years before you see the humor in it.
Hotler
(11,353 posts)Upthevibe
(7,884 posts)I love really well-written sitcoms, movies, etc. Here are some of my favorites:
Seinfeld, Friends, Arrested Develpment, The Larry Sanders Show, Veep, Curb Your Enthusiam, I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Carol Burnett, The Office, Modern Family, and many others.
As for movies, too many to list...... I LOVE laughing!
debm55
(23,584 posts)even though I am 68 yrs old.
Skittles
(152,965 posts)Emile
(21,909 posts)1936 movie starring Joe E Brown "Earthworm Tractors"
Joe E Brown is a tractor salesman and will have you cracking up 😂.
LuckyCharms
(17,287 posts)"Kiss my frog-like ass".
But don't judge me...I was very high at the time.