What makes something funny?
We know when something is funny, but, if asked to explain exactly why it is funny, we would be hard pressed to put the reason into words. Not everyone finds the same things funny; a state of affairs that makes it even harder to come up with an explanation.I don’t usually find s*xual innuendo particularly funny, but I often find instances of impropriety funny; thus making the overall funniness of a particular situation dependent on the proportional mix of these two elements. In a Carry On film, for example, s*xual innuendo is not very funny, but in a religious discussion it can be hilarious. Being someone who appreciates things that are funny, I regard this as fortunate; after all, Carry On films have had their day, whereas we are still waiting for Jesus’s second coming.
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I don't see nearly enough of you these days. Not that I've actually seen any of you, lest anyone should misinterpret that statement.
I don't find many stand up comedians funny either, and I find a lot of them annoying. Yes, ordinary people come out with the funniest things, and sometimes particularly so when they don't mean to.
Now that's what I call funny
Perhaps not a lie though
I'll send you a picture of my pinkie so you can at least say you've seen a little of me.
I've just watched an interview by Tommy Tiernan (I don't find him funny) with Eddie Izzard. I find him intelligently funny. He doesn't tell jokes, he observes.
I hate jokes. I find most totally unfunny. But observational humour done intelligently can be great.
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Molly
I don't laugh easily, either; so I appreciate it all the more when I do.
Irony is only funny, IF the viewer/listener recognizes the relevance of the irony.
and not everyone does. Irony can be a connector to the set-up and the punchline,
IF the relevance is understood. If it is, that's where the identification is at play.
For me witty humour does it for me...as long as it's in moderation and there can also be some seriousness when appropriate.
I don't roll around nearly a fraction as often as I use the emoji but I re-learned a few years ago to laugh out loud. May not happen often but it feels great
I'm a person that make in normal life everyday some jokes and when my children was at home and I found out that they had make something wrong.....then I went to the one who had done it and told, " Do you know, somebody have done this and that, can you help me to figure out who it is?"..........it almost always worked well, just a smile from the child and sometimes an answer, "perhaps it was ......and using his own name, keeping himself like an outsider".........and following a clearing up of the wrong doing.
It seldom went to any hard situation, all worked well with the jokes.
The same I have done with somebody as partner and if they have done something,that I did not like and mostly it works very well too.
This prayer for Trump - psalm 109, verse 8