humour/ making others laugh

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Farting in church very loudly, or very quietly (the good old SBD)
Streaking up the aisle works too, but I will let someone else do the honours there.

Love it!

I was named after my pastor. We were chatting with him once and I told him I needed a tape of one of his sermons.

He said "What do you need it for?"

I said "I'm always falling asleep in church so I figure I could play it to help me get to sleep at night."

Everyone laughed. I didn't know what they were laughing about. He never gave me a tape. I was young so I don't know that I can attribute it to AS. Prolly just youthful naivity.

I love anything which is clever and doesn't patronise the reader - Frasier is my all-time favourite sitcom, followed by Cheers and Arrested Development. I loved Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy as well.

All people have to do is look at me, and than they start laughing.

I like puns and wordplay, especially really bad puns and dumb jokes. I make these all the time and enjoy them a lot more than the people around me, I think usually I'm cracking up hysterically over my horrible pun and they're groaning. I laugh a lot more at certain jokes than most people around me, and often at the wrong time (like several minutes later I think of it again and start cracking up). And I don't laugh at all if I don't think a joke is funny, unless I'm on the lookout for it and try to fake a reaction (I usually don't bother). Eventually people usually start laughing at my dumb jokes becuase I'm laughing. People who know me usually think I'm really funny and those who don't think I'm extremely serious. I also like wry/sarcastic humor and deadpan. I frequently try to joke like this, and I have realized over time that some people don't realize I am joking and just think I'm off my rocker.

I am really bad at telling classic jokes... probably the worst person I know at it. My brother and I used to compete amongst ourselves to come up with the worst jokes in the world and then laugh ourselves silly. Sometimes I can go all day on a bad pun I thought of which I think is hysterical and those around me think is mildly amusing or not at all... this tends to either amuse or annoy people. The first time I heard the joke about the frogs in the bathtub, I kept laughing intermittantly throughout the day, and saying the punchline when people asked me for things and then cracking up.
For those of you who don't know it, it goes like this:

Two frogs are sitting in a bathtub. The first frog says to the second frog, "Please pass the soap." The second frog goes, "What do I look like, a typewriter!?"

If you are thinking that's the stupidest joke you've ever heard in your life, you can be glad you weren't around me that day .

I also maintain that most people find other people getting injured to be a basic form of humor, so I have employed this for cheering people up when they are in a bad mood: I explain the premise and punch myself in the face. Never fails...

The frog joke is one of the best I heard in my life!!
In the Spanish version, they're elephants instead. One says "Please pass the soap" and the other answers "No, radio".
The way I know it, you're supposed to tell it with a friend. You tell it to someone who doesn't know it, and your friend laughs at it, so the other person laughs just so they won't look like they didn't get the joke. But I thought it was genuinely funny.

Actually the joke I most laughed at was one my 7th grade teacher made. During the recess she wrote "MMMMMCRRRRRRRR" in huge letters on the blackboard. We all came in after the bell rang and started commenting on the sign. The teacher came in, looked at our nonplussed faces, looked at the board, and "What? Oh that! MMMMMCRRRRRRRR", she said, as if explaining the obvious. I laughed so much the tears poured out of my eyes and I couldn't stop for at least 10-15 minutes. And the whole rest of the period I giggled intermittently.

Wow, that joke's on Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_soap_radio

Typical NT behaviour.

I tend to like black humour, satire, anything unusual.

Favourite programs include:

Little Britain
Goodness Gracious Me
Coupling
Rory Bremner

and, showing how old I am....

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – tv series NOT the film
Not the Nine o'Clock News
Father Ted

Part of whats funny about the frogs in the bath tubs is ...seeing frogs in the bathtub..frogs are funny...and then I can imagine the look on the frogs face "sarcastic"....its very funny(I cant spell helarious....

I recall a sleep over when I was about 8....I said "goddnight,dont let the bedbugs bite" and my friend
said..."and if they do,take off your shoe ,and beat them tell they are black and blue"I laughed tell I cried....speaking off...

Anyone ever start laughing uncontrolably for a long time and having it end up "litterally" crying...seems to happen when I am over tired but it is so bizzare(and embarrassing)..its like when I laugh so hard I get tears in my eyes...my brain gets the false message that I am sad...and then I become sad....???