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Comedy is it Universal at all?
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.. This is still really is funny.. to me.......have you ever seen an episode of Would I lie to You?
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No, not at all. Humour depends a lot on culture and differs enormously between generations, countries, social circles etc. I find none of this funny for instance
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so how come...beer cans scarecrow all light hearted stuff....your weird or an alien then..show what is funny to you,,ok I do larf a hell of a lot and see most stuff that is serious as funny these days...Marie..nice name
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You have lame boomer humor. We are young and rowdy and cynical except we don't hate our wives.
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@DianneW He doesn't hate his wife cause he isn't married. |
This tickled real good.
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As for what's funny to me, my occasional posts in the spam and meme threads should give you an idea but if I come across a good example I'll post it here Actually, here is one (although not mine): Quote:
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https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...=175&crop=fill Jokes to me are so varied..take the UK CarryOn films..loads and loads of them, funny to me as is the late Kenny Everett....when you can laugh at yourself though your a winner....that's is not so easy really. |
People completely missed the sick joke over the beer can scare crow..all about how man is destroying the land....Jokes come in many forms and you have decided you know my humour from just a couple of examples....no way, never been that shallow.
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Don't take the surprise thing too literally, it's hard to explain but in the case of the duck example I mean the connection between the picture and the correlation vs. causality principle is apt but surprising and just the right amount of absurd. There are many exceptions to that though, like you said humour comes in many forms. And I agree that laughing at yourself is great and very important |
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The scarecrow/litter one I wouldn't label a joke if it was multiple choice. Much more satire imo. This is funny. https://img.ifunny.co/images/4ea6fb5...98d20d72_1.jpg |
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Well that's true, except misogynist teenage boys probably like wife bashing jokes too
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Comedy is definitely universal - take America, for instance.
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I liked the Marie/Frownland one about Correlation VS. Causation. It's a joke at the expense of people like me who are quite capable of mixing the two up.
Yes, absolutely agree that to laugh at yourself is very commendable. In fact, Arthur Koestler, who struggled (as a Jewish communist) to survive in Nazi-occupied Europe once commented that one of the remarkable features of the Nazi's was their lack of humour regarding themselves. They took themselves far too seriously in his opinion. I sometimes wonder about QAnon or the Taliban; would Koestler find them short on humour too? Quote:
If we want to explore how universal humour is, this might be a better place to begin:- I bet kids the world over could find that funny and even I can enjoy how cleverly choreographed it is. |
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So you've answered your own question there. No, comedy is NOT universal, though sometimes something is just naturally funny, like someone slipping on ice or walking into a door. Even if we want to tell ourselves oh no, we're horrible people if we laugh at that, it's our first instinct to do so. But comedy varies not only by country but also by person. You might think something is hilarious and I would not, and vice versa. It's all subjective, so it can hardly be universal. Quick poll: who finds this funny? |
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Sucker punches aren't funny.
An ass getting his due? That's funny. https://forgifs.com/gallery/d/280673...vs-bullies.gif |
Is it wrong to sucker punch a cockroach?
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There's a number of folks I would love to see hit, but I'd rather they had time to see it coming. |
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So I know my humour is mostly nobody else's a lot of the time..My husband laughs because he is an OTT joker born and bred and that over time has turned me into a fruitcake also...My Mother refused to allow him to make a speech at My late Dad's funeral because he could, not that he would, but he could have made a joke out of grief even..........:wavey: |
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p.s. yes the sketch was funny, he has been in so many progs. was good in Holby City a Hospital Drama could have been a real drama having read this a while back..is it funny well not exactly, but made me grin... https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...n-window-ledge |
Hey I've been exposed to enough British language to have gotten the tosser pun, I bet many Americans get it too. Its just a mediocre pun
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Was not saying otherwise and not trying to make a joke out of a tosser, just using it in the tense it was meant for, highlighting a huge trash problem, now take this video, this fun and funny and a lot more to me but it's all in the eye of the beholder of course, that is why people cross and fall out, lack of understanding each other's syke. I hate curry, does that mean all people do...different types of curries, but I hate them all....well in my head I do hate them, as not actually had more than 1 in my life....my judgement.
She does do these type's of Video.... |
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