Funny People More Intelligent Than Bores

EmmetSpiceland

A new study has published claims that people with a good sense of humour, particularly “dark humour”, are more intelligent than unfunny types.

“Their analysis shows that funny people have higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence, and they score lower in mood disturbance and aggressiveness.”

I think we can all see why that new “Current Affairs” forum is full of unfunny mouth breathers, arguing in circles about the most mundane, boring, of topics.

Now, I, personally, enjoy a good laugh and would often “hold court” with my pals getting a lot of laughs due to my good sense of humour. It’s nice to see that my own suspicions of my higher intelligence have been confirmed, it would be obnoxious of me to simply state this without having the required backup.

The story goes on to say:
“More negative humour styles, such as sarcasm, ridicule and self-defeating humour, do not offer the same benefits. Instead, they tend to alienate people and are more often associated with depressed mood and aggression.”

Again, personally, I would see a lot of these poor attempts of “humour” on this very site. It just shows how those of “lesser intelligence” can try as they might but always end up failing miserably. Scrambling, constantly, to get a snarky first post on a new thread, I mean, it’s rarely funny or, indeed, intelligent.

And, yet, they persist.

Link to article below:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/funny-people-are-also-more-intelligent-according-to-new-research

Only one thing wrong with your analysis - its OTHER people that determine if you're funny or not. Not you. You might be the most boring sh1te out there.

Gregor Samsa

Jaysus, I nearly fell asleep half way through your second sentence. Could you not have lashed an auld joke or two in? Even a pun?

corner of hells

You've a good sense of humour ?

suicide_circus

youre funny...but not "ha ha" funny

Deebles McBeebles

Well this makes laughing at all those dead baby jokes worthwhile.

MrMusician18

I’m here to ****in’ amuse you? Whattya you mean funny?

Earthhorse

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

“More negative humour styles, such as sarcasm, ridicule and self-defeating humour, do not offer the same benefits. Instead, they tend to alienate people and are more often associated with depressed mood and aggression.”

That sounds about right.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

There are at least 20 recognised types of humour. Most people will only be proficient at a couple and find only a few humourous themselves. So, what's funny to you may not be to others and vice versa.

jimgoose

Your sister!

Aongus Von Bismarck

I'm a very intelligent man. I also have an extremely well-developed and nuanced sense of humour, and am quite the wit. I would never have assumed that both are interrelated - correlation doesn't equal causation and all that. I've always known that I'm funnier, more intelligent, and far more successful than those I knew growing up and in university. Interesting that there might be a link between high intelligence and being funny. Even though I'd question if Austrians are the best people to identify either!

riclad

To be witty and funny takes some intelligence ,
boring people tend to talk about the same old topics,
the worst is people who just talk about sport , or their children.
Only your family finds the trivial day to day business of bringing up kids, interesting ,most people find it boring .

Plumbthedepths

OP go back to talking about ****e, that seems to be the only thing you are knowledgeable about.

completedit

I hate these American sorts who go on about humour and their humour is something that might work in Brooklyn nine nine but in reality would make you a cringey pathetic loser. Banter beats humour and they’re very different. Being funny doesn’t necessarily make someone good banter,

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I'm a very deluded man. I also have an extremely limited and blunt sense of humour, and am quite the twit.

FYP.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Scatalogical humour is for retards though.

Earthhorse

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

OP go back to talking about ****e...

That's what he's doing!

Plumbthedepths

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

Scatalogical humour is for retards though.

Two good friends of the OP will be disappointed with your views.

TheIrishGrover

I'm reasonably funny... But i'm as thick as two not-very-short planks... Maybe even THREE planks

Deebles McBeebles

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

Scatalogical humour is for retards though.

You sound bunged up, Franz. Its the only way I can explain your use of the word "retard". Perhaps some advice could be sought and offered....the etiquette thread, where everybody knows your name (and your toilet habits).

JohnnyFlash

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

Scatalogical humour is for retards though.

Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Chomsky are amongst a small selection of people who have admitted to finding scatalogical humour funny. Being able to laugh at the foibles and quirks of the human condition is pretty funny I suppose.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Chomsky are amongst a small selection of people who have admitted to finding scatalogical humour funny. Being able to laugh at the foibles and quirks of the human condition is pretty funny I suppose.

I had forgotten their major contribution to fart jokes, now that you mention it.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Two good friends of the OP will be disappointed with your views.

The greatest love of all.

Earthhorse

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

I had forgotten their major contribution to fart jokes, now that you mention it.

Chomsky's earlier works in the area are still worth reading today. His latter contributions to the field find him way out of his depth and can be ignored.

JohnnyFlash

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

I had forgotten their major contribution to fart jokes, now that you mention it.

Dean Swift wrote a treatise on the benefits of farting.

Undividual

I think the dark humour element is true alright. You need to be able to formulate a joke that takes your audience into account, phrase it in a pithy way and have the confidence to deliver it. Nothing worse than a poorly delivered joke.

The darkest joke in the world is probably not as funny as a good cheek-flapper in a lift though.

Aongus Von Bismarck

This isn’t a site I’d associate with humour to be honest. There’s a lot of very tired attempts made at being funny - Fr Ted clips, Facekicker, cocaine and hookers etc. Desperately unfunny stuff really.

Ficheall

completedit wrote: »

I hate these American sorts who go on about humour and their humour is something that might work in Brooklyn nine nine but in reality would make you a cringey pathetic loser. Banter beats humour and they’re very different. Being funny doesn’t necessarily make someone good banter,

These days, use of the word "banter" is often a good indicator that someone is not funny at all.

riffmongous

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

This isn’t a site I’d associate with humour to be honest. There’s a lot of very tired attempts made at being funny - Fr Ted clips, Facekicker, cocaine and hookers etc. Desperately unfunny stuff really.

Tammy!

Sometimes dark humour can be funny and intelligent but it depends on the audience and the motive for the humour. Being a dick or just saying shocking things alone is not necessarily intelligent dark humour.

Like in Southpark, the character Token Black could be seen as offensive but they are really just highlighting what some TV shows do and how stupid it is. The joke is not aimed at black people but aimed at shows that put someone in as a 'token' or when Cartman tries to cheat and enter the Special Olympics because he thinks he'll have an advantage over the other kids, it was making a joke at the Spanish Basketball team disqualified for doing something similar where it turned out the majority of the team were not in fact disabled.

PinotNero

You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little ****ed up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you?
I make you laugh, I'm here to ****in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

PinotNero

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I'm a very intelligent man. I also have an extremely well-developed and nuanced sense of humour, and am quite the wit. I would never have assumed that both are interrelated - correlation doesn't equal causation and all that. I've always known that I'm funnier, more intelligent, and far more successful than those I knew growing up and in university. Interesting that there might be a link between high intelligence and being funny. Even though I'd question if Austrians are the best people to identify either!

TuringBot47

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Chomsky are amongst a small selection of people who have admitted to finding scatalogical humour funny.

Not so sure about Hawking finding it funny, he'd have been wearing adult nappies for many decades.

I'd say his day alternated between black holes and brown holes.

Rufeo

I tell you, After Hours has gone down in quality over the years.

Undividual

Rufeo wrote: »

I tell you, After Hours has gone down in quality over the years.

Join Date: Jul 2019



That is a shlippery shlope.

Dr. Bre

Are ya dry ****e?

Rufeo

Undividual wrote: »

Join Date: Jul 2019



That is a shlippery shlope.

Sshhhhhh.

The Tetrarch

I was in the kitchen. There was a knock on the back door. I opened it.
There was a tramp there, very dishevelled.
"Can I have a piece of cake?"
What?
"Can I have a piece of cake? Its my birthday. I'm an old soldier"
Were you at the front?
"I was, but no one answered."

I must be very intelligent. :rolleyes:

jimgoose

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

This isn’t a site I’d associate with humour to be honest. There’s a lot of very tired attempts made at being funny - Fr Ted clips, Facekicker, cocaine and hookers etc. Desperately unfunny stuff really.

You're the Bantsführer SS, AvB!

The Tetrarch

I went to the shop to buy a dozen bees.
The man counted them out, and put 13 in the bag.
"You gave me 13, and I asked for 12."
"That's a free bee."

TuringBot47

The Tetrarch wrote: »

I must be very intelligent. :rolleyes:

Reciting someone elses joke wouldn't really express intelligence.

I'd say it's more related to improv or being able to make quick/unusual mental connections between different things that are not usually related/expected.

The Tetrarch

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Reciting someone elses joke wouldn't really express intelligence.

I'd say it's more related to improv or being able to make quick/unusual mental connections between different things that are not usually related/expected.

Are you Michael McIintyre?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

The OP has learned how to self-fellate. Congratulations, OP! How many yoga lessons were required?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Sarcasm isn’t the lowest form of wit, impressionism is.

Yer Da sells Avon

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

This isn’t a site I’d associate with humour to be honest. There’s a lot of very tired attempts made at being funny - Fr Ted clips, Facekicker, cocaine and hookers etc. Desperately unfunny stuff really.

Not sure whether I want to kick you in the face or just put your head through the wall, tbh.

EmmetSpiceland

My word! The more “negative” and “aggressive” types, lacking in both intelligence and humour have been out in force.

They really are proving the “findings” of this research.

I’ll put this excerpt from the article up, once again, to fully illustrate this point:

“More negative humour styles, such as sarcasm, ridicule and self-defeating humour, do not offer the same benefits. Instead, they tend to alienate people and are more often associated with depressed mood and aggression.”

Must make for “stark” reading for those concerned.

Earthhorse

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Not sure whether I want to kick you in the face or just put your head through the wall, tbh.

Put his head through the wall and then continue your conversation in the other room.

Woke Hogan

My wife has always told me I don't have much of a sense of humour. That being said, there's nothing worse than when you're introduced to someone and immediately find out that they think they're some sort of funnyman, cracking awful jokes and making base, obvious observations. Many of them actually fancy themselves as comedians as well, actually participating in open mic nights and ruining people's evenings with their horrible jokes. I'm sure many of the jokers on this website have tried the same themselves.

The emergence of the roasting culture has made it a lot worse, especially when that same person thinks they're dining with the intelligentsia when they're devouring Rick and Morty episodes. Smirking like a character on a Dreamworks poster, telling you your shirt is "stupid" and basking in their own wit. I'd rather listen to any self-proclaimed bore than a "wit."

dd973

Dogmatic and aggressive types aren't exactly famed for their sense of humour, I think the ability to recognise absurdity is definitely a marker of possessing critical thinking and scepticism.

Undividual

Woke Hogan wrote: »

My wife has always told me I don't have much of a sense of humour. That being said, there's nothing worse than when you're introduced to someone and immediately find out that they think they're some sort of funnyman, cracking awful jokes and making base, obvious observations. Many of them actually fancy themselves as comedians as well, actually participating in open mic nights and ruining people's evenings with their horrible jokes. I'm sure many of the jokers on this website have tried the same themselves.

The emergence of the roasting culture has made it a lot worse, especially when that same person thinks they're dining with the intelligentsia when they're devouring Rick and Morty episodes. Smirking like a character on a Dreamworks poster, telling you your shirt is "stupid" and basking in their own wit. I'd rather listen to any self-proclaimed bore than a "wit."

You sound like fun

Undividual

dd973 wrote: »

Dogmatic and aggressive types aren't exactly famed for their sense of humour, I think the ability to recognise absurdity is definitely a marker of possessing critical thinking and scepticism.

I love asking specifically how many chicken wings I'd get if I ordered them, then ordering a burger.