Comedy

[Ronald Zeeman]

never could understand why people bonking each other on the head is funny.

Good when I was five, three stooges.

 

[Crossbreed]

never could understand why people bonking each other on the head is funny.

I do not like real injuries, but I can see where Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, et al. are funny to be "hoisted with their own petards."

Duck Season/Rabbit Season

 

[RemyZee]

I enjoy this way also. I call them "zingers."

A brief example:
I'm not one who loves modern tech such as smart phones being used for everything and such.

I started to pay the cashier at Walgreens one day with my debit card. The box you do so with had several different choices on how to use it.
I'm looking at the card to decide what to do.
The cashier guy says, "Just tap it." So, I tapped it. The debit card with my finger.
I said that didn't seem to do anything!
He said he would do it for me.
I remained perfectly serious about it.

Wry humor is another word for it.
Twisted perspective: The humor comes from looking at a situation in a way that's slightly off-kilter or unexpected. It's not a straightforward joke; it often requires a moment of thought to grasp the irony or the underlying emotion.

As far as comedy I enjoy watching, it would be something like Grumpy Old Men or Last Vegas.

Cartoon humor I liked was The Far Side or Twisted Whiskers.

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I like to do things that come from left field--be talking to someone and start referring to myself in the 3rd person. ie "What did you do today, Remy?" "Oh, she went for a walk downtown and she did laundry, then she went to a movie.. etc etc." It is even funnier in that it is funny to me, but usually not to the other person.

 

[Nervous Rex]

Is "crash" their collective term, like it is for rhinos...?

Or maybe it's a Cart-el

 

[Shevek]

I got my first good laugh, rather by luck, at an extended family dinner when I was about eight, and it felt like a breakthrough. Ever since, I've felt more at ease if I can get a laugh. Yesterday, I went to the bank with a friend and sat nearby. The next teller became free and asked if she could help me. I asked "Can you speed that guy up?" and got chuckles all around.
I've won big prizes, but the memories I treasure are the really big laughs, and some clever little ones. I don't really trust my real-time analog brain with the low emotional intelligence to not get me in trouble, but by cultivating a reputation as a joker, it seems easier to pass off a mistake as a failed joke.

 

[Nervous Rex]

I hear and remember a lot of one-liners or dad-joke style lines that I think are funny. Sometimes a situation will come up where one of them fits and I'll drop the line.

A few times when I did that, a coworker turned to me and asked, "How long have you been waiting to use that line?"

 

[Shevek]

One time, a techie I was dealing with commented on my rusty bicycle. I let it look bad to deter theft, but I replied that the rust was making it lighter. That's true if it flakes off, but the guy replied "Iron oxide is lighter than iron?"
"I've been telling that joke for ten years, and you are the first one to get it," I congratulated.