A word on humour

Ok Goodhart has pushed me to do this after we had a few discussions about humour in general, So as a little revenge I decided to drag him along with me in to the depths of hilarity.

This isn't a complete anthology of every little technicality in humour, that would be a very big book, very big indeed.


"explaining humour" is like "explaining" how everyone looks (when everyone looks differently) so it is that humour is a personal thing, and what makes one smile, makes another laugh and still another scowl.

Attempting to explain humour, jokes or sarcasm is a bit like having a baby, only upside down, and the baby's made out of an anvil and I'm still a man...

Step 1 Where do you start?

So humour is funny, jokes are there to make us laugh and amuse us. Where does humour start and end, how is it defined, what are all the different kinds of humour. God Goodhart you will pay, this is painful, picking apart humour isn't funny or easy I add to the baby description a few thousand volts running through my left earlobe. (So, where is your sense of adventure? Your yearn to learn? :-)

So i guess I'm just going to start talking about all the different kinds of humour and babble for a while, generally see what comes of this, by the end of it I will either be a joke machine or possibly the most serious man ever, more serious than serious Sam, so serious in fact that people won't be able to take me seriously because I'll be so serious that they'll fall over screaming, 'he's so serious it hurts' then I'll have like nothing at all to do but sit there and be serious so serious I'll explode.

Comments

[leecopp10]

Anyone cane be funny, just some people have a nack for it and some dont, i found metions how you can become from the loner in the group to the comedian of the group, have a look. Click here

[tiga_cff]

Thanks for torturing yourself for the sake of our amusement! And no, that wasn't sarcasm. I was taught that "comedy is the art of the unexpected," which is why I no longer find it amusing that my girlfriend doesn't laugh at any of my jokes. No, wait. That's why knock-knock jokes aren't funny after age 12. Except this one: Knock, knock. Who's there? Flash. Flash who? Flash Gordon! Wouldn't that be funny if he actually showed up at your door? ha ha!

[Danielfish]

And if we subscribe to dark humour - Knock Knock Who's there? Not Madeleine.

[killerjackalope]

It may not have been long enough my wee brother loves - Whats worse than letting michael jackson take yur kids on holiday? -... - Letting them go with the Mcaans It's awful, mainly because it's evil in so very many ways but hey, whatever we all have to laugh, eventually I'll hit the dirty jokes section, that one will take me a lot longer to compose and for goodhart and I to agree on, dirty jokes are more internet friendly, but a bit edgy for instructables.

[Saturn V]

Dirty jokes, in my opinion, are some of the most hilarious, but should be shared with caution.

[killerjackalope]

I would be deeply perturbed if flash gordon turned up at my door... No really though girls just have trouble with 'man jokes' they are always, too childish, too silly, too obscene, too indicitive of horrible trauma... Try making a joke about shoes, she might enjoy that, but then you'd have to think of a nice shoe joke.

[HeyJD]

People here in Australia grow up with sarcasm everywhere! It's part of a normal conversation.

[Lithium Rain]

"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am"

[killerjackalope]

Can you hear that rushing sound though? That my greatness...

[ilpug]

this ible is amazing. now im all mad i didnt write this myself. well, the lack of purverying my omniscient sense of sardonic assholishness to the general surrounding population of manifestations of the humanoid race will be exemplified in this small peice of Pythonic drivel.  

i will insult you for money... lol. yaeh. im that good. you hear that hum? no, thats not your computer fan, thats your computer sighing in mental pleasure about what it wants to do to me because thats how damn awesome i am.

now who is smart enough to turn that around on me?

[killerjackalope]

Actually the hum is my heater, singing it's glories to me. 

Big words don't make you clever but speeling them right helps, oh and yes not only is my thesaurus larger, it's more accurate.

[Lithium Rain]

:D

[Karel Jansens]

That virgins cartoon isn't humour; it's attempted suicide.

[killerjackalope]

Haha I hope that comment was supposed to be funny, if so I got it...

[Karel Jansens]

Weeelll... You're the expert, eh? I happen to agree with Commander Samuel Vimes that there is a surprizingly large amount of ways for people to commit suicide, often without them even knowing there were going to kill themselves. PS: Yes, I'm a huge fan of Terry Pratchett. Fortunately, he doesn't know this. PPS: I'm also a great fan of the Danes (note: not "a fan of great danes"). Long may their cartoons sting the -- alleged -- prophet's arse! PPPS: Know any good hideouts?

[ilpug]

Well, as long as you keep your mouth shut and dont eat anything "onna stick, cheap" you should be fine... unless someone TALKS TO YOU LIKE THIS, then you had better walk acrossthe desert after Brutha, and dont forget the luggage...



love the books. nice to meet you, other fan.

[killerjackalope]

Yeah that's true though I think unintentional suicide is known as as an accidental death... Expert huh... I was having one of those moments where I found something funny then thought, damn they better be joking, otherwise I'm a monster... Holes in the ground are a good hideout, as is the sewer system, sadly you will have to live alongside many old burnt out TV villains...

[lorrwill]

killerjackolope haz mad funneh skillz

[Capt. Fat]

Capt. Fat was here. Also...................................... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!

[KentsOkay]

Genius...

[killerjackalope]

The 'ible, goodhart, or me?

[KentsOkay]

The trio....

[killerjackalope]

Ha, cheers RS...

[cd41]

i think alot of people who like this page (like me) and comment it are apreently fans of monty pthon humor where the explnation or manyt comments at all are long drawn out silly-word-filled peices of language that will never come up in any conversation they will ever have, unless they actually find a guy who worked on Monty Python comedy. And just to clear it up most comedy like the comedy in the first paragraph is said in one or two breaths and quickly with alittle funny accent or in a funyn voice or style or dialect, or by adding more and more and more things to it

[killerjackalope]

Don't forget the use of strange words and superlatives... I think the whole monty python thing's funny, it's still good today despite being so old, partly because it spawned massive amounts of similar comedy...

[canida]

Perhaps #3 is actually "punny"?

[killerjackalope]

Canida i wish to stab you... Puns my good man, about being funny and punny and argh.

[bluscreamofdeath]

oh stop with the pun-ishment

[AndyGadget]

Why is it that you laugh at jokes but are meant to groan at puns, even though you may find them funny? There is a story (Azimov, if memory serves correctly) in which it's postulated that jokes are made up by a superior intelligence as a behavioural experiment on the human race. Puns are made up by people so we groan so as not to affect the result and that if we ever realize what is heppening, then the experiment will come to an end and . . .

(It's the 'Biggus Dickus' scene in 'Life of Brian' which really, really gets me every time.)

[killerjackalope]

It's not that puns aren't funny alot of the time we've already had the reaction, it's also because they tend to be 'cheesy' really you should question goodhart about this one his puns are everywhere.

[Kryptonite]

Haha, sorta weird instructable but it did make me laugh. Hehe, i like the duck's payback against the hunter.

[killerjackalope]

It was one born out of a conversation so it makes no sense to begin with... Thanks we did put some effort in, some being used loosely here...

[aceLED]

lol i odly remember u and goodhart having this argument on one of my forums or was it u and somthing else I think the joke was about to adam and how one lost its electron and when the other asked y he said iam positive or somthing like that ( corectme if iam wrong :P)

[killerjackalope]

Sounds like goodhart...

[aceLED]

lol

[coolz]

I created an account here when this was created

[killerjackalope]

Cool, just coincidence or actual reason?

[coolz]

coincidence, i suppose

[SpinWard]

I am favoriting this so I can go back and read all the funny stuff. There needs to be more lighthearted 'ibles like this. Just something to make people smile!

[killerjackalope]

Didn't make me smile...