Humour and You!

[lacktheknack]

Watch Britain's "Monty Python"... satirical and black humor, some slapstick, rather subtle.

Watch American Comedy Channel... slapstick, crude one-liners...

And so on. You are accurate.

 

[Azraellod]

lets see...

i tend not to find a great many things funny. that which i do find funny usually involves death in some form. so dark humour i suppose would be my favourite...

sexual innuendo is not funny at all from my perspective, and actually has the opposite effect on me. i become far less likely to laugh afterwards.

random is not funny unless it is pulled off extremely well (the goon show and monty python are good examples of this working well).

 

[Lullabye]

well, after seeing "The Hangover" i officially declare america as hitting an all time low, and not just its economy *ba-dum tish*
but seriously, discussing humor, i can laugh at any joke, low high or even bi, its all good here. unfortunately this gets me into trouble more oft than not.....(i laugh at dead baby jkes and the like)
Now, you all seem to be forgetting the funniest country of all, CANADA!
hell America, half your "funny actors" are canadian. ever hear of a guy called jim carrey?
I feel canadian comedy tends to be extremly controversal, but because every one here is so damn nice, we all can laugh at it.
p.s. my fav comedian is Russel Peters)

 

[Gaderael]

I appreciate all types of humour, but where I'm from where generally known as funny people, as we make fun of ourselves and everything else. But we also like good clean, clever humor.

I guess you could also pose the question of what comedian, writer, show, or movie epitomizes humour from each country?

For example:
Britain: Monty Python, The Office, Dame Edna, Absolutely Fabulous, Benny Hill
Canada: Wayne and Shuster, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Kids In The Hall, Jim Carrey
Ireland: Dylan Moran,
USA: Saturday Night Live, Porkies (or American Pie for you kiddies), George Carlin, Robin Williams, Bill Hicks, Jeff Foxworthy, Dane Cook (I'm kidding. No one finds Dane Cook funny)

 

[Pandalisk]

ah humour without you sucide would be oh so appealing

Mock the week is the greatest ever, once a day every weekday is not enough
George carlin was amazing too, what a shame.

anyway,it seems that different cultures like different things in their humour, an example would be Little Britain, a hit in england, Chav's or those that identify themselves as such hailed it as the second coming of jesus, and yet, when it went to america it failed brillaintly.

 

[Mozared]

I can tell you that Dutch humour means making the same jokes about Belgians that the Belgians make about us.

 

[cobra_ky]

but if someone knows a kind of humour, i'd like to know.

Blood, Black bile, Yellow bile, and Phlegm. you're welcome

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 think the fact that Britain has a show called "Mock the Week" while America has a show called "Best Week Ever" says a lot about the differences in American humor.

 

[Insanum]

Monty Python + Stand up comedy is my humour.

With the fast show thrown in for good measure.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

America needs more black humor. A lot more.

Spoiler: In case you were wondering...

I absolutely do not mean this kind. I appreciate cultural humor, but Tyler Perry-esque films need to fucking die.​

 

[MiracleOfSound]

[Irish: More childish stuff.

I'm Irish and very curious as to how you came to this conclusion.

 

[HentMas]

i belive or at least i had in my understanding that Mexican humor is the most varied there exist, we find the joke in everything and tend to make jokes about anything, but it seems that "Albur" or talking with double meaning, obviously sexual meaning is one of the favourites, among with "loooong story to stupid or no point" like the "jokes" the great comedian Polo Polo makes, or the tune things are said, like

"MOM, DAD!! they are calling me an orphan at school!!!!"
"..."
"Mom??, dad??..."

political correctness is not something we care about, we make fun of everything!

"MOM!!!, I KNOW WHAT I WANT TO BE WHEN I´M OLDER"

"OH sonny, you have cancer"

(i told this joke to a friend that was recently prescribed with leuquemia, she laughed her ass off)

looking at the bright things in the harsher times, or generally making fun of said situations is one of the greatest ways we Mexicans handle our problems, i had a friend whose father had abandoned him and his mom when he was a kid, he always made joke like

me- "HEY, lets go all to that new bar!"
him- "YEAH!! just let me ask my dad... ... ... oooohh... i have no father..."

or we could laugh at stupid things like word play or anything

you think its funny?? we Mexicans have our oun kind of fun, dont expect to understand everything we say in a conversation at a bar, half of the things being said are "Albures" and the other halve are just plain offensive jokes.

 

[Haliwali]

innuendo (in YOUR end-o, amirite?)

I'm not going to lie. I'm American, and that has crossed mind.

 

[Straitjacketeering]

I'm an american citizen now although I'm originally from Italy, I personally find over the top or ridiculas comedy to be the best, most of the odd shit from the whitest kids you know makes me crack up.

But noones funnier nowadays in my opinion then Craig Ferguson on his talkshow.

 

[BuckminsterF]

Americans tend to like absurd non sequiturs... well I do...

 

[Spirultima]

but if someone knows a kind of humour, i'd like to know.

Blood, Black bile, Yellow bile, and Phlegm. you're welcome

You know the most weirdest part about that is that i got that. And in response i already knew the 4 humours, so they ain't new.

I appreciate all types of humour, but where I'm from where generally known as funny people, as we make fun of ourselves and everything else. But we also like good clean, clever humor.

I guess you could also pose the question of what comedian, writer, show, or movie epitomizes humour from each country?

For example:
Britain: Monty Python, The Office, Dame Edna, Absolutely Fabulous, Benny Hill
Canada: Wayne and Shuster, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Kids In The Hall, Jim Carrey
Ireland: Dylan Moran,
USA: Saturday Night Live, Porkies (or American Pie for you kiddies), George Carlin, Robin Williams, Bill Hicks, Jeff Foxworthy, Dane Cook (I'm kidding. No one finds Dane Cook funny)

Out of that list i only found two funny, Monty Python and Jim Carrey, but with Jim Carrey, he just acts, he follows a script, he doesn't write his own material, as much as most other comedians do.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Everything that comes from Britain in my opinion is rather more cultured and classy, that includes jokes as well. I'm only familiar with British and American humour.

Is it?
(the last 2 lines are the best)
Brits are dirtier then you think my friend, and I love it to bits.

 

[LongAndShort]

British (i'm talking about the whole place) is usually more subtle, or more dead-pan. Us Aussies are pretty quick about things, and love our sarcasm and cynical or black humour.

 

[riskroWe]

<-- Australian
I'm the most sarcastic person I know, but it frightens people when they first meet me.
The humour that other people use seems to revolve around a mockery of dignity, seriousness, authority, and anyone who is anything but relaxed and apathetic.
The worst thing you can be in this country is 'full of yaself'.

 

[DoW Lowen]

I find British humor to be mostly based on delivery, you can see this more in Little Britain, it's all about characterization than the actual content. with the America humor, I feel that it's mainly about the punchline.

I'm Aussie, Aussie "entertainment" not necessarily humor is generally about subversive context.

 

[afaceforradio]

(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?

I agree with everything you listed really. I love British humour for the irony and the satire. Mock the Week is just side-achingly funny. I really don't like American sitcoms though. Quippy one-liners just get really predictable. I find that once you've seen one, you've seen them all, you know?

SAying that Frankie Boyle has to be one of the funniest things about MTW, yet he's Scottish, so perhaps the Scottish are into their satire too