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 don’t think my sense of humour’s changed, I just find it hard to laugh at things that are politically regressive to me now. SNL is a biggie, so is some liberals stand up, used to enjoy them but now they are hard to stomach these days.
I like John Mulaney except for the little lib take every so often.
Do like a good sitcom, I have been OBSESSED with It’s Always Sunny lately
I also love the weirdos, hahaha
Yep! My family was watching old SNL skits on Xmas and we were all laughing and having a good time, then we see an anti-China bit about them cheating in the Olympics(Boo fucking hoo, I really don’t give a fuck) and the whole thing was supposed to be like a mix of Anime and Popeye where the Chinese athlete takes Steroids and pills to mask the steroids on drug tests and then beats everyone else. It was racist and had no real humor besides making fun of China and their people
I like spatstick now.
I don’t like “clever” humor anymore.
Sometimes, I just want to have fun, you know?
As someone who watches jackass, I understand what you mean
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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
I don’t take whatever is happening in my life serious at all (with the exception of political work) and I often feel misplaced
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.
Toilet humor. Trailer park boys. Steve Brule. Tim & Eric.
Oooohh I LOVE me some TPB! Also whether it was as a joke or on purpose, Randy and Lahey coming out was actually very nice. The Park accepted them and they both felt better for doing it. Granted the show had more than a few cheap jokes thrown their way but still that “Indianapolis Jones” costume ep was one of my favorites
Hah, great point, when they come out I remember Ricky saying something like “Great, your gay, so what?” And then continuing on calling Lahey and Randy assholes, and then it kind of is a non-issue.
I have a high theory that Sunnyvale is a kind of utopia in that apparently no one works and people seem to spend a lot of time together as a community, even if it’s generally to antagonize one another.
Lmfao a Lumpen-Proletarian Paradise! You’re right, I’ve thought about that too, how nearly every single person in Sunnyvale is either a criminal or commits crimes on the job. Lahey is a sad excuse for an officer and often winds up being just as dangerous to the park as Ricky Bubble and Julian. Jacob works odd jobs or retail nearby and turns a blind eye to plenty of crime and eventually becomes a criminal himself working closely with Ricky. Every other industry in the park that requires labor are usually scams to steal shit or to sell black market goods.
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I used to really like slapstick humor, and I still do to an extent, but what really makes me laugh these days is memey humor. Among Us/Amogus related things really do it for me. I’m also a big fan of observational humor. Very few shows/movies have made me burst out laughing. Usually it’s quips made by myself/SO/friends/family.
ikr, I have no idea why amogus is really funny
I get bullied a lot for it but whatever.
“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.”
I have no idea why I find some of the things I do funny.
I was a big irony-free Prequel fan as a younger kid, then I disliked them, then I liked it for the irony and memes, now I love the prequels again. It’s a cycle ig
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Horror-comedies make me laugh the most since 2015
Not sure if Cabin in The Woods counts or not but that is my top 20 movies
My all time favorites are: Ghostbusters, The Addams Family from 1990s and Gremlins
I used to watch ylyl compilation on youtube and laugh after every clip like a robot, now I no longer watch that much only shows I watched in these past 5 years were metalocalypse and flcl, my humor is based entirely on anti climax dad jokes
Wait ? هل أنت شاهدت flcl ? .
Fooly cooly,first season only
Oh well . i see all of them 😁
I like “edgy” jokes and humor, but not necessarily humor that is edgy or dark for no reason, I like it to have a point.
I love dirty and sexual innuendos, and I constantly am on the lookout for the right opportunity to say “that’s what she said.”
I have a guilty pleasure need for “OMG XD so random humor”
Also slapstick or mean-spirited humor, but in limited amounts. Like the show Archer.
I also begrudgingly like humor based on stereotypes, mainly subverting them.
As someone who is multi-racial Latino, Jewish, Indigenous, German and Aztec, I like the occasional racial joke, but only if the person saying the joke is actually trying to be funny and not masking their racism, or is subverting the expected punchline.
For instance:
"What do you call a Latino police officer?
A pig, you racist bastard."
I also admit that fucked up humor like that is my guilty pleasure, I watch plenty of Tosh.0 when I have nothing else to watch
I prefer Ridiculousness.
I like ironic humor if that makes any sense. Stuff that was a popular meme, but died and so it’s so overused/dead that it wraps back around and becomes funny again. I also like absurd, clever humor that requires a sort of advanced understanding of a topic to get.
Like using DatBoi or sarcastically implying everything should be eaten with Bacon?
Haha, a little bit of both. I let DEAD dead things stay in the ground but I think there’s just a certain point where it gets funny to me. I’m not sure how to describe it well.
I used to like slapstick a lot, then some stand up bs, but since then I’ve learned to enjoy surrealist humor and most of all deadpan
Flight of the Conchords for example have some of the funniest sketches/songs (sketchsongs?) I’ve ever seen
The most beautiful girl On the street Depending on the street
I like dark humor, but not in the bigoted way. For example, I recently found a meme that you kind of have to be a terrible person to laugh at.
It was one of those “I stand for the flag and kneel for the cross” cheesy over the top memes making fun of burger patriotism. The flag was the flag of Democratic Kampuchea. The cross was a photo of a child being crucified by the Khmer Rouge. The punchline is an irl child crucifixion yet it sends my sides into orbit every time I look at it.
“I stand for the flag and kneel for the cross”
My city is littered with stickers with that phrase, displaying a trans flag and a person in a puppy outfit kneeling in front of a trans symbol. I thought that was funny, never knew it was a meme thing.
Lmao fucked up😂
