Its virtually unknown for aspies to have a sense of humour

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I think the radar joke would be funnier if the person shouted sonar, sonar. Either way, I imagine a silly person thinking they'll get sensory data from shouting the word.

^Actually that's really funny. Not in and of itself, but because of the timing and context. It's funny that you're showing an aspie trait, having fun posting information in response to a joke, in a thread about lack of sense of humor among aspies. And then here I come, having fun analyzing why it's funny.

I’m undiagnosing you all! Bunch of witty,sarcastic neurotypicals!

I've been accused of not having a sense of humour in the past.

Even my old geography teacher told me that I was too serious, and that's coming from a geography teacher! Granted, that's a stereotype but still.

Today I missed someone's joke, and they quipped "You don't get humour, do you?", because I took the statement at face value instead of seeing the humour in it. They said "Well, I don't think we're going to be able to get the train that leaves five minutes from now", and I thought he was just making a statement so I asked if it mattered, and pointed out that there were many other trains running, and how we usually don't get that train, and inquired if there was a particular reason why they wanted to catch that train.

He didn't want to catch the train, and he told me this, so I asked why he brought it up, so he explained that it was a joke on the fact that it would be impossible since we can't travel such distances in five minutes (we were a fair distance away from the train station). After some thought I realised the joke and felt rather silly.

Then I started talking about if teleportation existed, and he regretted telling the joke lol.

But despite common belief, I do in fact have a sense of humour. Otherwise, why would I spend my time watching compilations of comedians? I like Bo Burnham, Thomas Sanders, Dave Gorman...ect.

People have told me that my humour is similar to Dave Gorman, that's partly why I started looking into his jokes.
I like the way he tears things apart, and analyses them in a humorous/witty manner.

Bo Burnham is good in my opinion since I like wordplay and dark humour (both he has an overabundance of).

Thomas Sanders has an over the top cheesy sense of humour, with a love of puns and nonsensical madness. I particularly like his misleading compliments, such as "I wish I was dead-icated to making your life easier, you busy bee!"

LOL.....that's so classically "Aspie."

But it's all right. It's cool.

I'm still like that sometimes. I take things too literally.

Sometimes, taking things literally can provide a great "straight line." I went to a meeting once where we gave brief introductions, and after the adjournment I was approached by a woman about my age who was starting a publication, and wanted to interview me about my work. The only nearby public table was in a pub next door, so we went there and sat down. Then it was time for more introductions. This was shortly after the Club of Rome discovered that if everyone had a small apartment and a Fiat, etc. like they did, we would need another Earth to supply ourselves. So, wanting to identify herself with the Deep Ecology movement, my new friend said "I think there has to be a reduction in population." I let that ripen to full awkwardness, and then leaned forward to confide "Well, yes. I have a Little List myself." She almost fell off her chair.

Well I must not be an aspie then, because I've been told my sense of humour is incredible.

With me, it matter a WHOLE lot on whether I'm comfortable with a person. With strangers, whenever they crack jokes, I tend to either not respond to jokes, or respond in an awkward manner. But with people I know better and genuinely like, I'm far more responsive to jokes. But this is also partly because those people tend to share a similar sense of humour to me. I tend not to laugh at crude jokes because I just don't think they are funny. Hence people, for example at work, think I am fairly humourless (I certainly have a reputation for being serious). But with the few co-workers I share common ground with, I transform into a deadpan snarker. They know me as a very humorous person.

^^such humor should be called "stickstick."

I found that I had to learn a sense of humour. This has worked with males but NT females don't like it. I did learn the humour from a male. I can make humour very easy now. I learnt what metaphors were and I learnt what banter is. Banter has a self twist to it and can take the twist back. It's hard to explain but it works with males who like to banter. Maybe it's from tradesman humour.