humour/ making others laugh

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i usually repeat myself to my mother, if she's telling me something like a bird and that usually makes her laugh other than that im not really a joking kind of guy

I tend to joke a lot, word puns, observations, practical jokes, stories of personal mishap. I like tv comedy blackadder,les dawson, richard pryor, the office although it is depressing too, don't always laugh out loud at tv comedy more when things happen. Don't really find stand up funny and would'nt dream of seeing a live stand up would'nt beable to sit there that long watching one person or with all those people.

I hate "sitcoms" and most stand-up,but Chris Rocks stand up can be funny(his delivery)but I didnt like his tv show....I really liked the humor on "West Wing" and "northern Exposers" which is rare for me to like TV.The best humor is in books(to many to name)....I really liked the Blackadder series and the movie..."Rosenstein and Gueldaherst are Dead"(I know I probably gor the name wrong) it had some great puns and word play.....

Am I funny?....I am constantly amusing myself but few people think I am as funny as I do....Some people laugh but I never know if they are just being polite?I can do a good "dead pan" delivery but I couldnt tell a joke to save my life...

Yeah, I found the West Wing funny too, although it's supposed to be really serious.
My mom tells me it's funny to find someone who loves WW and Peppa Pig.

Monty Python is very love it or hate it with NTs. I'm curious how they rate with AS. Personally, I like 'em.

Thoughts?

It's definitely popular with me.

Tim

People think I'm incredibly funny, everybody tells me I should do stand-up, but I have absolutely no idea what I said or did that was funny. Maybe I startle them into laughing with my aspie viewpoint. I never figured it out.

What I like: Fawlty Towers, Izzy Izzard, Jeff Foxworthy, Garrison Keillor.

I like Jeff Foxworthy, too. I like all the Blue Collar Comedy guys. I didn't get to see the Larry the Cable Guy movie (about the health inspector). Bill Engvall is from Galveston, and Ron White is from the same town I'm from (Pasadena, Texas).

Tim

If all else fails, tickle them

Noo, I hate being tickled!

I tend to like very satirical humor. Douglas Adams books, Matt Groening cartoons, that kinda thing. I also have a think for very wacky dark humor (think Jhonen Vasquez-esque stuff). Essentially anything that puts everything and everyone down so brutally that we can't do anything except laugh at it all if we have any chance to survive such horrors.

I like Black Humour, Sarcastic Humour, Caustic humour, Droll Humour, Deadpan, Non-sequitur, Parody, Self-parody, Satire, Self-irony, Self-ridicule, Irony, Ridicule, Wit, Anti-humor, Nonsense Jokes, Meta jokes, Self-referential jokes, probably the only thing I don't like is Slapstick and those standard jokes.

Do something totally outragious in church, that usually works.

I laugh at everything. It sounds odd, but it's true. I laugh at images that pop into my head, I laugh at the odd connections I make, and I laugh at misconceptions half the time, or the stupid or ill-considered things I say.

My sense of humor seems to be especially piqued by irony and sarcasm, but I relish a good parody as well and I love footnotes humor (Pterry and Douglas Adams-style writing; I don't know if there's a better term).

Ah, footnotes humor!
There was this book I read for school that seems to have been written for the sole purpose of being read at school (it's called Juvenilia, it's the school memories of this guy who went to my school 150 years ago). Publishers know this so they fill it with footnotes that explain all the obscure references. They aren't supposed to be funny, but they are. For instance, on many pages the actual text takes up an inch and the rest is all footnotes. And in one chapter there was a footnote to the last sentence: "Causes a humorous effect".