Who has the best sense of humour?

caseyann

In the world there is so many different senses of humour.I find some jokes and their sense of what is funny is like bizarre to me of other countries, i literally can not laugh at them.
Like Americans,their sense of humour i don't get at all.Which countries have you been to and which ones you found,very bad sense of humour that you wouldn't be laughing away and they don't get you or other way around?

PirateShampoo

Haven't meet a German yet who doesn't love a good Hitler joke.

My name is URL

Irish & English people seem to have the best sense of humor, imo

caseyann

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Haven't meet a German yet who doesn't love a good Hitler joke.

Funny you say that i seriously found them very stand offish,Tell me all time to talk to the hand:eek:http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00681/adolf-hitler-joke-4_681576c.jpg












dont kill me:(

phasers

Irish and British people

OutlawPete

We do.

The Irish have the perfect balance of being able to slag and be slagged and be self depreciating enough not to take ourselves too serious.

dcmu

American's get crap for their sense of humour, but to be fair, they have some cracking comedians....

...and Americans made Planes, Trains and Automobiles, for which they have my eternal gratitude.

The man on the street though, is generally about as witty as a slap in the face.

Brits and Irish hands down.

We like dark humour and it's fúcking great.

Hank_Jones

This thread is slightly biased, we are obviously going to say that we have the best sense of humour.
Everyone thinks they're a comedian and all that.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

My friends from where I used to live.
The sickest of sick jokes will not sicken them. 'Tis great!:D

caseyann

rarnes1 wrote: »

Brits and Irish hands down.

We like dark humour and it's fúcking great.

Dry sense of humour and also we can laugh at the other crap to.:D

I am not been bad i found polish and Russians and ukrainians very sorry i love my mates but stiff.

Irish and English I'd say... Sure everyone who comes here makes a note of it like!

gonnaplayrugby

jesus christ, 'we have the best sense of humour' FFS like:rolleyes:

does this include the anglophone world only btw? becoz somehow i doubt you lot watch much german/french any non english language comedy.

and the irish get offended by everything. if there is an irish stereotype portrayed(like there was in eastenders years back) they get inindated with complaints.

amcalester

Let the circle jerk begin.

biko

Americans have the best humour.
Best comedy shows, best stand ups.
Brits second.

OutlawPete

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

jesus christ, 'we have the best sense of humour' FFS like:rolleyes:

does this include the anglophone world only btw? becoz somehow i doubt you lot watch much german/french any non english language comedy.

and the irish get offended by everything. if there is an irish stereotype portrayed(like there was in eastenders years back) they get inindated with complaints.

Guess you proved your own point.

gonnaplayrugby

Yep americans funniest for me(comparing against two other countries, the brits and us)

Abi

amcalester wrote: »

Let the circle jerk begin.

*splat*

Oh sorreeee

My name is URL

Magnus wrote: »

Americans have the best humour.
Best comedy shows, best stand ups.
Brits second.

Best comedy shows maybe, not stand-up though.. Irish & English stand-up all the way for me

and sense of humour is more to do with how people absorb and react to the joke, not the act of telling the joke =p

InKonspikuou2

Mexicans, Colombians, Cubans and Brasilians are the funniest to me outside of the English language. Pretty similar to Irish humor.

snow ghost

Northern Ireland has the best sense of humour, as Lord Molyneaux proves:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/730000/images/_730566_jimmolyneaux150.jpg

aaronjumper

America. They gave us south park, family guy
american dad and all the other dirty immature
shows that like to offend just about everyone.

And Ireland of course

filthymcnasty

for tv shows and movies its the americans no contest:
the simpsons, seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, snl etc
we cant keep living off fr. ted forever, great and all that it was.

Caoimhín

Feck im drunk.

caseyann

But then why the average joe i met from America are stiff and dont laugh at our witt

Out of shows fair enough i think aswell you have to be brainwashed into laughing at that stuff, at first never laugh at them shows now i do.


Maybe the whats it called that stuff they send in the ads to make you buy something? They put in the ads between them shows this is funny you will laugh and not know why!

citizen_p

for some reason we (brit/ ireland) love dark humour and they will slag anything...which i like.

americans dont curse alot......from when i was there...they dont get the irish sense of humour...you slag me, i slag you, we all have fun


american tv is savage ....but for your average joe comedian...like a guy youd see at a random comedy gig....ireland/britian

efb

English, not Ireland. Our TV comedies and comedians bear this out. Dara O'Brien is an exception.

IvySlayer

It's us imo. The banter between us Irish the best.

caseyann

efb wrote: »

English, not Ireland. Our TV comedies and comedians bear this out. Dara O'Brien is an exception.

No doubt in that one:D


Except England not Ireland part.

gonnaplayrugby

lol americans dont curse a lot> where the **** were u> harvard or some ****

gonnaplayrugby

IvySlayer wrote: »

It's us imo. The banter between us Irish the best.

i disagree i happen to think the banter between the slovaks is best. :rolleyes:

what an absurd question. how can u measure best sense of humour? lol

Hazys

InKonspikuou2 wrote: »

Mexicans, Colombians, Cubans and Brasilians are the funniest to me outside of the English language. Pretty similar to Irish humor.

There hilarious, chatting away to themselves in their funny languages! making no sense at all!

caseyann

@gonnaplayrugby One person from every country in world and see what happens.Big comedy brother

Capt'n Midnight

SAN FRANCISCO MAN BECOMES FIRST AMERICAN TO GRASP SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY

Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony. "It was weird," Fullmer said, "I was in London and, like, talking to this guy and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, "great weather, eh?" and I thought "wait a minute, no way is it great weather." Fullmer then realised that the other man's 'mistake' was in fact deliberate.
Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3, plans to use irony himself in future. "I'm like using it all the time," he said. "Last weekend I was grilling steaks and I burned them to sh*t and I said, 'hey, great weather!'"

Dudess

The Irish/British/Australian/Kiwi sense of humour is absolutely fantastic - dry, self-deprecating, sharp, surreal, sometimes downright silly, dark.
Different type of humour from the States (generally speaking) but equally hilarious - Americans can do sarcasm superbly.

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

does this include the anglophone world only btw? becoz somehow i doubt you lot watch much german/french any non english language comedy.

Do you?

and the irish get offended by everything. if there is an irish stereotype portrayed(like there was in eastenders years back) they get inindated with complaints.

You rock my world, GPR, with your incessant whingeing about Irish people, yet strangely exempting yourself from said demographic. What a renegade!

K-9

The poor ould Americans suffer from terrible generalisations. Some great sit coms, they can do sarcasm as good if not better than the Brits.

Dark humour? Some of us get it, some of us don't. The debates about what is humour and what's the line on AH, testify to that.

Overall, I think we praise ourselves too much and knock the Americans too much. Some of the best dark humour is in American films.

Karl Hungus

Frankly, British humour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywVlfTtlMY

Hank_Jones

Personally I think that I have the best sense of humour and that all other senses of humour should use mine as a benchmark.

grenache

People are likening Irish humour to British humour but they are both different if you ask me. British humour is far drier and can be much more deprecating than ours.

Deki

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Personally I think that I have the best sense of humour and that all other senses of humour should use mine as a benchmark.

I think this is true! So simplistic and yet here is the answer to all.:cool:

Hank_Jones

Deki wrote: »

I think this is true! So simplistic and yet here is the answer to all.:cool:

That's one.
Now I just have to convince the rest of the world that I am the funniest person ever and my plan for world domination can really start.

Muhahahaha...haha...haha

Jesus Wept

Dudess wrote: »

The Irish/British/Australian/Kiwi sense of humour is absolutely fantastic - dry, self-deprecating, sharp, surreal, sometimes downright silly, dark.
Different type of humour from the States (generally speaking) but equally hilarious - Americans can do sarcasm superbly.

Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony.
"It was weird" Fullmer said. "I was in London and like, talking to this guy and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, "Great weather eh?" and I thought - "Wait a minute, no way is it great weather".
Fullmer then realised that the other man's 'mistake' was in fact deliberate.
Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3, plans to use irony himself in future.
"I'm, like, using it all the time" he said. "Last weekend I was grilling steaks, and I burned them, and I said "Hey, great weather."

K-9

The-Rigger wrote: »

Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony.
"It was weird" Fullmer said. "I was in London and like, talking to this guy and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, "Great weather eh?" and I thought - "Wait a minute, no way is it great weather".
Fullmer then realised that the other man's 'mistake' was in fact deliberate.
Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3, plans to use irony himself in future.
"I'm, like, using it all the time" he said. "Last weekend I was grilling steaks, and I burned them, and I said "Hey, great weather."

I'm sure I that seen that posted already today.

kumate_champ07

The Irish have a good sense of humor because of our fucked up history, sometimes laughter is all you have

We also have a more advanced sense of humor on this side of the atlantic, I dont think americans get 'Jam' (Chris Morris)

Jesus Wept

K-9 wrote: »

I'm sure I that seen that posted already today.

I can't remember where I read it, possibly in the humour forum here on boards, possibly not but at least a few weeks ago.

kumate_champ07

K-9 wrote: »

Dark humour? Some of us get it, some of us don't. The debates about what is humour and what's the line on AH, testify to that.

yes some people here think if they mention maddie or fritzel its dark humor, but it needs to be more intelligently put together than that

Karl Hungus

Aussie humour can be absolutely terrific. Anyone who's watched The Chaser's War On Everything can attest to that.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QNAwUdHUQ

K-9

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

yes some people here think if they mention maddie or fritzel its dark humor, but it needs to be more intelligently put together than that

Again context and as you say, some thought goes into it. Maddie and Fritzel jokes can be funny.

Some good Wacko jokes going about straight after his death, but the amount of people who got outraged. I don't think we are as good at dark humour as we like to think we are!

K-9

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Aussie humour can be absolutely terrific. Anyone who's watched The Chaser's War On Everything can attest to that.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QNAwUdHUQ

Rory Bremner rip off and nowhere near as smart or clever.*

*Which was a Yes Minister rip off!

cafecolour

I tend to like a bit off each. I like dry humour and absurdist humour (but not aggressively wacky).

http://www.theonion.com has always been a fave, so probs to the americans for that. Also for a boatload of animated humour (south park, aqua teen, etc.). Most of their live action sitcoms are pretty ****e though (barring a few - seinfeld, arrested development). I hate anything that tries to get dramatic or have a lesson (it bugs me in south park even, but I tolerate it there).

I grew up on monty python and fawlty towers is still my favourite of all time, so probs to the british for that. Ditto the office, spaced, peep show, black books. I hated Little Britain with an undying passion though.

kumate_champ07

blackbooks is overrated, its just slightly surreal slapstick, I could never warm to it


another overrated show is 'the IT crowd'