Sense of Humour and AS

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Interesting. Most people would say I do not have a sense of humor, but I don't understand what they find funny. I fail to find mocking or degrading others as a source of amusement (like Sarah Silverman, cute as she is, or Jackass). I used to love George Carlin until about the mid-80s when his comedy was based on culture criticism, then he just got nasty and cranky and unfunny. I couldn't even watched an HBO special from a few years ago. I cringe whenever I hear NTs making fun of other people's habits or looks or "busting balls" because it seems so unnecessary and demeaning.

My sister never understood why I found Monty Python, Bugs Bunny and Blackadder so funny, and she would probably be equally baffled on why I find The Tick or Venture Brothers to be hilarious. It's the absurdity, the ridiculousness, and most importantly the unreality. Yet I love anything that deconstructs social conventions. Seinfeld was total genius because it did this in a way that wasn't mean or nasty. Heck, some of the questions of everyday life they posed were almost profound.

Without my sense of humor I'd go crazy. One of the reasons my girlfriend first found me attractive was that I made her laugh.

Ed Almos

I have a pretty quirky and random sense of humour too. I am in the Hugh and Laurie, Mony Python, Black Adder boat on humour. Which most Americans just don't get. I've been meaning to watch Big Bang Theory....I'll check it out.

Very often I will say something, not intending to be funny at all, and people will laugh as if I have just been cracking a joke or have said something hysterically funny. I'm always surprised and have to ask "what's so funny?" This happens a lot at job interviews or in the doctor's office or other places where serious communication is supposed to be taking place. I have noticed that the higher a person's intelligence, the more they find my unintentional humor funny.

Sometimes, when I am in a certain state of mind, and I'm in bed with a racing mind and can't sleep, I start telling myself jokes that make me laugh out loud till my sides ache. The jokes just keep coming one after another, original of course and related to me and my life and people I know and scenarios that I create in my mind. This is also a little embarrassing because my husband is lying next to me trying to get to sleep and I keep cracking up. He asks me "What's so god damn funny?" I am laughing so hard I can't get the words out to tell him. One time recently this went on for about three hours and I was beginning to get extremely exhausted but couldn't stop making myself laugh. I started to worry that it wouldn't stop and I wondered if anyone ever had to go to the ER because they couldn't stop laughing. The next time this happens, I am going to have a notebook handy and write down all the stuff that makes me laugh and then re-read it in the morning to see if it's still funny.

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I like Steven Wright and Lewis Black too, they
both crack me up.

Quoting DaQuirk:

Lewis Black rules. Did you ever hear his routine about getting off the plane and walking around in the god awful heat of Miami?

Half of the time when I tell a joke the person I'm speaking to takes me seriously. On account of this when I say something that's not a joke people think I'm joking.

OMG my AS bf keeps me lauging morning, noon and night. It is straight observation and much sarcasm, but I can't get enough of his brain and how he views things. Things that are obvious I don't see. My God, what a brain!

I'm always told I have an odd sense of humor.

I think I miss it, Jerry Lewis is considered a God of humor in France, I never laugh at standups, forget me telling jokes.

I always ship the same thing, paper, they always ask, anything liquid, fragile, perisable, I said, fine art, and two people behind me in line started laughing loudly.

Often I say things that are taken as funny, threatening, or both. I never know what the reaction will be.

I laugh at things no one finds funny.

There are two basic types of humor. One, exemplified by Jerry Lewis, makes fun of people doing stupid things. I am not amused by this. I prefer the type of humor that makes fun of society such as that in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the Monty Python shows which is full of odd surprises.

I am often told I have no sense of humor, My husband says I have a unique refined sense of humor and I do make jokes now and then. I like Steven Wright though, and I found Invader Zim to be very funny and amusing.

Some of the people I have known have liked humor which seems to be mean to people and that kind of comedy can scare me, so I will need to leave the room I get so frightened.

My humor usually offends people because they claim its off beat, but I can come up with some tasteful jokes sometimes. At the same time people find themselves needing to reasure me that theyre just joking.. Sometimes I believe them sometimes I dont.

Cosmiccat, I have only seen Lewis Black a couple of times on
Comedy Central, and I don't think I saw the Miami one, but
I bet its good. I like it when he shakes his head and cheeks
every now and then. Funny stuff.

Yes, I'm like that as well.

I used to think I had no sense of humor as a child; I cried when I was teased by my father, and never made any jokes (though I liked to 'take in' comedy, like Monty Python, Mad magazine -as another thread here recently reminded me of- etc.)

As an adult, my sense of humor is considered to be amazingly good, and it's enabled me to move around in the NT world more than anything else. I credit my marriage and the little satisfying social interaction I have to this.