Demographics of cigarette smoking
17 hours ago
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I never really thought about the "they have a good sense of humor" comment before. It is very relative.
My line of thinking is that people "have a good sense of humor" if they can laugh at themselves, can understand when someone is trying to lighten up (not be serious all the time) or do it themselves, and they don't revert to sick and disgusting things as humor.
And bad puns CAN be considered funny, but to a select few, like my wife and her Uncle Joe. Actually, your joke sounds like something that Uncle Joe would tell.
Like so many things, perhaps this is subjective. Like you, I know many people who consider themselves to have a good sense of humor, but I apparently am incapable of seeing it. I would surmise that humor is good if you can, like Scott says, laugh at yourself and enjoy the situation around you. I don't know what exactly is "funny," but I know what makes me laugh, and I know that many people accuse me of having a terrible sense of humor.
This is an interesting site, I'll have to make sure I come back. I found you through a comment you left on English Professor's site.
The example I always use is Andrew "Dice" Clay. During his moment in the spotlight, he pushed the envelope pretty far. The problem is...he wasn't funny!I don't care how dirty or distasteful a joke is if it is actually amusing on some level!His were not.
I agree completely on Benny Hill and I'm an anglophile. I love the Carry On films with their similar leering humor but I never even smiled at Benny.
A current favorite of mine is Bill Bellamy whom I found on an uncensored concert on TV one night at 2 AM when I couldn't sleep. An intelligent, self-confident, truly witty man who eschews the popular "black" comic attitudes and by doing so makes considerable comment on them. He makes me laugh!
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