Humour and You!

[Spirultima]

(This is not a joke thread, this is a thread about jokes...)

If there is one thing i've noticed about humour is how diverse and widespread it is, but in different areas some jokes would fall flat.

Now my current stance with humour,
English: Satirical and Black humour hits harder.
American: Slapstick, One Liners jokes.
Irish: More childish stuff.
Iranian: Working on stereotypes. (I'm just predicting this from the comedian Omid Djalili, i have no idea if this is accurate)
Welsh A mix on themselves, the stereotypes and satire.
Scottish A mix between black themselves and for some reason celebrities.

That is what i have so far, no idea with any other country, but if someone knows a kind of humour, i'd like to know.

Example: I was watch Mock the Week (Its a English comedy show, the only TV i actually watch at all) last week and my chest was hurting i was laughing so much, but when i put on some American TV show i laugh once or twice, though some other people would have completely the opposite reaction.

So what do you guys think?

 

[Chiefmon]

Americans appreciate innuendo more.

 

[Kinguendo]

Americans appreciate innuendo more.

Really...? Are you sure? All innuendo or just sexual innuendo?

 

[Noamuth]

Australian humour is pretty bizarre. It ranges from bogan-ish, stupid innuendo and poop/sex jokes, to political satire and picking on the media.

o.o I may be wrong though. I don't watch a lot of Aussie comedy shows, save Good News Week.

But I think the topic creator is pretty dead-on, especially with the English humour. We need more of that over here.

 

[Chiefmon]

Americans appreciate innuendo more.

Really...? Are you sure? All innuendo or just sexual innuendo?

Well, mostly sexual.

 

[Kinguendo]

Americans appreciate innuendo more.

Really...? Are you sure? All innuendo or just sexual innuendo?

Well, mostly sexual.

Ah yes, "gigady"... "gigady", indeed.

 

[Undeleted]

Satire is the best form of humour. Sarcasm, observational, and self-deprecating humour are trash.

 

[Kellerb]

pretty much sums it up very well, actually. althouth i will say that irish do love some slapstick

 

[DrDeath3191]

I think Americans enjoy stereotypical and insult jokes in addition to innuendo (in YOUR end-o, amirite?) and slapstick.

 

[madcap2112]

Americans appreciate black humor and satire, though. You can see that in Coen Brothers movies, South Park, and the Simpsons, to name a few. At the same time, we can be pretty childish. Plenty of shows have more than one fart joke. Whatever, I still prefer British humor.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

Since it's the one I'm most familiar with, I'll talk a bit about American humor. It amazes me how simultaneously high and low brow popular humor can be in this country.

On one end you have the greats like Carlin, Hicks, Hedberg, Pryor, etc etc who all have really funny, witty stuff.

On the other, you've got Carlos Mencia, Family Guy, Larry the Cable Guy, all of that which almost gives me an embolism every time I see it. So I'll simply state that I'm perfectly clueless as to what American humor is, and it's quite baffling.

Also, I do enjoy English humor a bit, I find Spaced/Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz and Monty Python quite hilarious, I like really dry humor.

Please don't flame because those were the only English humorists I posted, I don't follow along with it very much

 

[SultanP]

I am not sure that I agree with OP's assessment of British humour, or any other of the generalizations either. Every country has a wide range of humour. But I do often find British humour to be horrible fart jokes or similarly retarded kinds of humour, thought I am probably just unlucky since I do sometimes come across British humour that is actually funny. It's all about what you bump into.

 

[ThePirateMan]

 

[smokeybearsb]

(This is not a joke thread, this is a thread about jokes...)

Now my current stance with humour,
English: Satirical and Black humour hits harder.
American: Slapstick, One Liners jokes.

Example: I was watch Mock the Week (Its a English comedy show, the only TV i actually watch at all) last week and my chest was hurting i was laughing so much, but when i put on some American TV show i laugh once or twice, though some other people would have completely the opposite reaction.

So what do you guys think?

I must be English then, even though I'm American. I really like English humor. I think the reason you put slapstick and one liners (Jimmy Carr is English dammit and he's hilarious) for American is because that's predominately what's on our TV's. However, I think that more Americans are becoming dumber by the second and are stooping to lower forms of humor (Scary Movie anyone?). I prefer sophisticated humor.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I dont like american humor. Too low brow for me. Ill try some english humor.

 

[DazZ.]

Irish: More childish stuff.

Which comedian are you thinking of? I can only think of Dylan Moran and Ed Byrne. I might be defining childish slightly too literally, but I'd say Americans are more childish than Irish.

Scottish A mix between black themselves and for some reason celebrities.

Frankie Boyle is god.

i put on some American TV show i laugh once or twice, though some other people would have completely the opposite reaction.

I have that exact same reaction, not sure what it is. Americans don't tend to take the piss out of people as much as the English do, and you can see some Americans on our panel shows going "oooo" instead of laughing when someone properly lays into someone.

Would be interested in some Americans linking to something comical that isn't a movie or a cartoon. I have limited American standard TV knowledge.

Edit:

On one end you have the greats like Carlin, Hicks, Hedberg, Pryor, etc etc who all have really funny, witty stuff.

Can't believe I forgot Carlin. I've seen some very funny American stand up. (and some piss poor aswell, as has been stated)

 

[Clashero]

Argentine humour... sigh... TV humour comes down to showing an almost-naked woman acting like an almost-naked woman, while the men make sexual comments about her. Either that or slapstick. Very, very cheap slapstick. The Three Stooges had more sophisticated humour than Argentine TV.

 

[Chiefmon]

Americans appreciate innuendo more.

Really...? Are you sure? All innuendo or just sexual innuendo?

Well, mostly sexual.

Ah yes, "gigady"... "gigady", indeed.

*Ahem* "Giggity"

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I like almost every kind of humor as long as it's executed well. Can't choose my favorite.

 

[Kinguendo]

Americans appreciate innuendo more.

Really...? Are you sure? All innuendo or just sexual innuendo?

Well, mostly sexual.

Ah yes, "gigady"... "gigady", indeed.

*Ahem* "Giggity"

Oh, come on... there are so many people doing it so many different ways and it is 3:10AM so I just went with one of them.