What makes you laugh today? What made you laugh in the past? Surely some stay the same, but what has changed? Also just for clarification, I don’t count childhood only because we all had a childish sense of humor and no 4 year old would understand sketch comedy or stuff that goes over their head. I used to really like Family Guy, Archer and stuff like that. Over time I feel like I got over the “Airplane” style of comedy in which every 3 seconds, there’s a joke. I started to get more into shows that were more quality over quantity in terms of jokes. I started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and Portlandia and stuff like that. I feel like Tim&Eric, Portlandia Eric Andre and Dr. Steve Brule made my sense of humor so weird lmao. I adore weird characters that seem to live in their own World separate from our own. Just the way they interact with ordinary people and to see how oddly a person can respond to normal situations cracks me up. Also shoutout to “Off The Air” on Adult Swim. I also really love sketch comedies like Wkuk, Chappelle show and Key and Peele, also Monty Python on occasion. What do y’all like? Anything recommendations that transformed your sense of humor?
I like absurdity. Taking the piss at the normal way of things. I think mainly because I don’t take whatever is happening in my life serious at all (with the exception of political work) and I often feel misplaced because, in my eyes, a lot of people are really taking life seriously. Not that I blame them or anything. I think it stems from my political views and not agreeing with the society I live in.
I myself have the ability to be incredibly dry with my own jokes. I’ve always had the gift of being able the make literally everyone laugh. There’s not a single person I’ve met that didn’t find me funny. I don’t want to sound arrogant or anything, I don’t in the slightest think I’m the shit or anyhting.
I too like absurdist humor. But what changed about my humor is that I no longer feel the need to make everyone laugh. I’m still goofy af, but I keep my jokes to myself most of the times. unless I think it’s a really good joke.
I get what you mean about feeling misplaced. I think it’s the same for me, but not necessarily because of my sense of humor, but because of my own neurodivergency makes it so my interests are rarely shared amongst friends and romantic partners. It feels so bland and dull to talk about something you feel completely passionate about when you now the person you’re talking to doesn’t feel the slightest amount of the passion you feel about it.
I’ve always wondered if I’m neurodivergent or not. I got diagnosed with some form of autism as a kid but my parents ignored it because it was in a period where tons of kids where getting autism labeled on them left and right. But I have great struggles with many ordinary things. Not like ‘oh it’s a bit hard and boring but if I do it I can manage’ but like, serious issues. Planning, for example, is non-existent in my life. I have extreme hedonistic tendencies that need to be controlled. People have a hard time operating at my level and vice versa (not in the genius way, just different wavelengths).
My brother did get diagnosed with pretty severe ADD and he had therapy for it his entire pre-adult life. I’ve always wondered what would have become of me if my parents accepted the diagnosis and if I got better guidance because of it. I had a very rough time between 13 and 22 and I think some form of guidance would’ve made things better. My brother got all that and managed to get into a pretty decent job eventually through hours and hours of guidance, therapy and help. Basically all the attention went to him and I never got any, a big reason for that being that I also happen to be somewhat smart with a potential to do good in school. But my brother deserves it though. If me not getting the help I needed means he got what he needed, then that’s fine. I wouldn’t want to change it.
Here I am, the person I am now. And I probably couldn’t be that person if it weren’t for the things that happened. But still.
Also, I struggled with the passion thing for a long time. But I eventually found a group of people that would listen to the things I was passionate about, and they don’t even always share my passion. There are a lot of people out there that would listen to you ramble on about obscure things for hours <3
I’ve also turned some of them into lame party tricks. I have a thing for skylines of cities where I can see a picture of a skyline and 99 out of a 100 times I will identify the city, regardless of angles or whatever. I can also almost always guess the population of a random city someone mentions. It’s a great thing to do at parties lmao
This is also a reason why I have a hard time deeply connecting with people. I am a really social and outgoing person and I find friends everywhere but I never really deeply connect with people. Mainly because people fail to fully understand me most of the time.
If you’re looking for what in my opinion is peak absurdist humor, I recommend Xavier Renegade Angel. It’s 2 seasons, 10 episodes each, with each episode being under 15 minutes. Some of the content is a bit reactionary, but it is simultaneously one of the smartest and dumbest pieces of media I have ever had the joy of watching.