Who has the best sense of humour?

Hazys · 19-02-2010 09:51PM

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 · 19-02-2010 09:53PM

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

Capt'n Midnight · 20-02-2010 02:18AM

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 · 20-02-2010 02:28AM

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 · 20-02-2010 03:21AM

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 · 20-02-2010 03:38AM

Frankly, British humour.

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

Hank_Jones · 20-02-2010 03:40AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:16AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:18AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:26AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:27AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:30AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:32AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:34AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:38AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:40AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:45AM

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 · 20-02-2010 04:48AM

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 · 20-02-2010 05:02AM

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 · 20-02-2010 05:03AM

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

another overrated show is 'the IT crowd'

kumate_champ07 · 20-02-2010 05:05AM

south park is king imo

tho they do have weak episodes sometimes

cafecolour · 20-02-2010 05:05AM

Shoot, I've totally forgotten the Canadians!

Kids in the Hall was always a favourite.

Plus, a fair number of "American" comedians (both good and bad) are actually Canadian (Mike Meyers, Jim Carrey, Dan Ackroyd, Tommy Chong, Will Arnet), so they got a lot of credit/blame there.

kumate_champ07 · 20-02-2010 05:09AM

canadians have some great comedic performers

Deki · 20-02-2010 05:14AM

I think humor hasn't so much to do with heritage as has to do with the individual. Some people are funny and some just think they're funny.:D

cafecolour · 20-02-2010 05:26AM

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

south park is king imo

tho they do have weak episodes sometimes

That they have, but to go as long as they have without become predictable or trite is pretty rare. I was in my first year of uni when I saw the "The Spirit of Christmas" on the net, and the show started my second year of uni. There's so many shows since then that I've loved initially and then faded, yet they can still catch me by surprise over 15 years later is amazing.

Havermeyer · 20-02-2010 05:32AM

My name is URL wrote: »

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

I fully agree.

But the English tend to portray it far better on the small/big screen imo.

tech77 · 20-02-2010 06:08AM

cafecolour wrote: »

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).

For me the funniest stuff is always the understated, deadpan stuff- stuff where it's almost the case that you can't tell whether they're taking the pi$$ or not (and you can laugh if you want).
The stuff that doesn't hit you over the head and tell you "here's the joke, laugh now".
Incidentally this is part of the difference between the US and UK Office.

The Onion can do deadpan (it's not perfect but it's hard to find much better).
I love their "individual non-story" stories (stuff like "mcdonalds worker locks up at the end of the night for the first time").
The Youtube stuff can be good as well.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 20-02-2010 09:31AM

IMO without a doubt the British are head and shoulders above anyone when it comes to a sense of humour and pure slap stick comedy.

Unfortunetly political correctness was the death of the best of British comedy.

Caoimhín · 20-02-2010 09:39AM

Caoimhín wrote: »

Feck im drunk.

Oh me poor head. Stay away from the port and brandy lads...

TheBigLebowski · 20-02-2010 09:51AM

Religious peoples of all kinds have the best sense of humour :pac:

Seriously, go over to the Christianity forum and crack anything remotely humorous and you're post will be deleted and you may get banned. Is laughing a religious sin?

Who has the best sense of humour?

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