Funny how?

I'm curious to know which type of humour you like most, and what makes you laugh most. (not necessarily the same)

When I say laugh, I mean physically laugh. Not just saying "haha, funny" or "haha, brilliant".

There's the witty, sarcastic, "smart jokes" etc...but I must admit, the more brilliant the joke, the less I'm actually laughing out loud. But to be more honest, I rarely laugh at a written joke.

A simple comdey of errors could make me LOL.

The TV show "King of Queens" will ALWAYS make me laugh. That's exactly my type of humour.

On the other hand, I find "Seinfeld" to be very smart comedy, but it wont make me LOL. I still enjoy it tho.

Oh, Mr.Bean will make me LOL like crazy, and he's hardly saying a word.

I also find french actor Louis de Funes (RIP) extremely funny, his million faces, his agitated talk, etc.

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I think humour is becoming more and more "intelligent", especially in the internet and facebook and all those "smarty" one-liners.

Does it really make you LOL when you write "LOL" ??

I like subtle humor and commentary type of humor a la Robin Williams and Cheers and Frasier.

I like physical humor, the type found in a lot of silent movies (Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd are particular favorites), Marx Brothers, and things of that nature. While I will confess to liking the Three Stooges, at least half of the time I find their humor too overdone and violent.

I especially like classic Warner Brothers cartoons. Early Popeye, too.

I thought the first Cheech & Chong film (Up In Smoke) was hysterically funny but hated all the rest of their films.

I could never stand Seinfeld. Unfunny, with characters I couldn't give a damn about. The only thing I find worse is The Office. Absolutely loathe that show. Not funny or amusing (IMO) for one second. Excruciating is a more accurate word.

And gross-out humor doesn't appeal to me in the least. There seems to be a lot of that these days. Not for me.

Liked British shows like Monty Python, Are You Being Served?, Red Dwarf and Vicar of Dibley. Particularly liked Benny Hill because so much of his humor was derived from silent movie situations.

I always had a soft spot for some films that were considered "so bad, they're good - and funny," but when Mystery Science Theater was on, I didn't care for it at all. Go figure.

Well, that's some of what my aching brain finds funny - at nearly 3:00 in the morning, anyway. In the light of day, my answers may be totally different!

Signor V.

My favourite comedies are mostly British being English myself, the office uk (can't stand the American one no subtly to it), Alan Partridge, peep show, fawlty towers, extras. On the American front, I love king of queens great sit-com!, Seinfeld and Curb your enthusiasm. I don't think there are many great comedies out new atm....

if were talking movies I think the movie "There's something about Mary" has made me laugh the most. Stiller is brilliant in it as is Matt Dillon, some of the scenes are outrageously funny and had me in stitches, the pinnacle being that zipper scene....

I am not big on real gross out humor I guess, but that's not to say I don't like off-color jokes.

Although I don't dislike comedies, I find when given a choice I'll lean toward drama all the time. However, if we are talking movies/tv humor, to name a few:

Two & Half Men, Big Bang Theory (although haven't seen it much this year), Older shows like Taxi, Seinfeld. I really laughed out loud and enjoyed The Hangover (first one).

I also have an odd tendency to laugh if someone trips/falls awkwardly or in a humorous way, including myself, who once fell out of a pear tree (don't ask LOL).

TIS

Like hell I'm not asking TIS....DO tell us the pear tree story, full and unabridged!!

I like things that work on a lot of different levels. Louis CK is the funniest comedian in existence today. Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright, George Carlin for stand up comics.

Party Down is probably a great example of my kind of humor. Arrested Development is probably the funniest show I've seen. Parks and Rec is the funniest show I've seen that is always positive and upbeat.

What makes me laugh out loud is when it's surprise.


Michael Jackson jokes?

I pretty much agree about the Office. It carries sublty to an extreme and I don't find it all that clever.

British comedies such as Monty Python and Fawlty Towers are really good. Never cared for Black Adder though.

I'm a huge fan of "The Farside". I still laugh at Seinfeld. I'm not sure how to catagorize it; irony? puns? Basically just looking at life from a slanted angle. Slapstick, not funny. Degradation, not funny (like Howard Stern). Toilet bowl humor, not funny.

Since you mentioned a cartoon, I have to vote for "Calvin and Hobbs" and "Bloom County". Anyone remember that one??

Bloom County was one of my absolute favorite cartoon strips of all time. I still have a large, stand-up telephone shaped like Opus. To this day, I'm still quite sad that the strip (by then revived as Opus) ended as I remember that bizarre final storyline and the ultimate fate of Opus.

(For the record, Opus's fate was a positive one, but the end of the strip was still very sad.)

Perhaps one day Berkeley Breathed will see fit to bring back Opus and the other characters (I particularly identified with Bill the cat), but I'm not holding my breath.

Signor V.

You really need to distinguish between the original, UK, version with Ricky Gervais (hilarious) vs the totally unfunny and awful US version (with Steve Carell). I'm guessing the latter. If you haven't seen the original, then give it a try!

Aaaak!

Loved it, too

Valid point. I was referring to the US version; try as I might, I can't remember ever seeing the UK series. I might have seen some episodes years ago, but I honestly can't remember.

Maybe I've fried too many brain cells.

Signor V.

is my favorite. It is me.

I love Calvin and Hobbes. It's so smart and so funny.

It always made me a little sad, though, because the day would come when Calvin would realize that his friend was only a stuffed tiger, although not really, because it's a cartoon!

I have a few of the "Bloom County" books, and they are as funny and fresh as they were 20+ years ago. I do remember Breathed did a take on Reagan firing all the air traffic controllers by doing a series based on Santa's elves going on strike, thinking how badly Santa needs them to make toys, but to their chagrin, they all get fired. Hilarious.

I am likely the odd man out here, but I never heard of Calvin & Hobbs? What decade where they popular and were they in the Sunday "Funny Papers?"


TIS

Calvin just grew up and changed his name to Tyler Durden. He even had spiky hair...





Calvin and Hobbes ran from like 88 or 89 to 96 I think.

The syndicated strip ran from 1985 to 1995.

Calvin and Hobbes

Signor V.

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=437993

There's a lot of good comics in there I posted to give you an idea of Calvin and Hobbes.

I've never liked the British "Office" much. I like the American version, though I'm afraid it's run its course.

Some favorite British humor, in no particular order:

Books by P.G. Wodehouse (Jeeves and Wooster), John Mortimer (Rumpole), and Gideon Defoe (The Pirates!).
Movies by Ealing Studios (Alec Guiness films), Nick Park (Wallace & Grommitt, Chicken Run), and Peter Sellers.
Comic Strip Andy Capp (by Smythe).
Sketch groups Monty Python, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, French & Saunders, Fry and Laurie. Some of these were in the Secret Policeman's Ball concerts.
Sketch shows Benny Hill and Dave Allen at Large.
TV shows Blackadder, Extras, Coupling, and the Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin.

And many, many more....