Dhomnley

So I come across as a bad presence here? I try to be funny! To succeed, one must be daring, and if you aren't, you get what 99% of the "humor" crap is out there.

What is humor? I have always found I don't laugh at the same things most others do. It's kind of sad to be who I am, but I need something more daring and bold to tickle my bone. It's hard to be in a crowd of people laughing at something you think is mundane, forced to smile, forced to laugh. You feel alone.

It can't just be "offensive humor" either. Howard Stern for example isn't that funny to me. Sometimes he is, but usually just an unfunny d-bag...

I tried giving mainstream TV another chance recently by watching the sitcom "Whitney". Good Lord, it wasn't funny at all. I was like, "hasn't this concept been recycled? Young couple married, it pokes fun at gender differences, she makes off the wall comments, and in the end it shows she loves her slob of a husband"...hmmm There was nothing bold in the show. Every joke was predictable...

Then I watched every episode of season 4 of californication. It was funny. It helps that I like Duchovny, but it was unpredictable dark humor. Brilliantly written, it appealed to my short attention span, and even made me root for the main character. But that shit is few and far between.

But all in all, most things that are supposed to be funny, aren't. I think it's really sad we have come to this. Or maybe I'm sad. From 3 stooges, to crappy romantic or teen comedies, sitcoms, crap shows like Whitney, the simpsons after season 7, even family guy wore down on me.

What about taking it up a notch? Fat chance. Everything I read from writers who try to be sophisticated and funny comes out gay as fuck. I get it, and I hate it. They are the worst of all, trying to appeal to people who are higher class. I've seen plays, read editorials, you name it, it isn't funny to me.

So I'm lost in this world. I can't relate to anyone. I think so many works of "art" in the form of music, plays, shows, movies, are uninteresting, boring, predictable. I want to scream, leave the world and go be on a deserted island with my own thoughts. At least I can make myself laugh better than anyone else has.

Lloydy

I think if you boiled it down to its purest form it would be a fat bloke falling over.

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Kompressor

In this day and age of Podcasts and Twitter, finding your specific type of comedy isn't that difficult.

If you don't get humor, you shouldn't attempt it. I'd still advise against the lifestyle of waiting to die, though.

Humor motherfucker, can you learn it?

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HTAM

Learn how to make fun of yourself.

Laugh at yourself.

Make us laugh at yourself while you're doing it too.

And quit pointing out the faults of yourself and others with no empathy.

That goes a along way.

adventure

grape stomp girl!

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turmaline

Myself i laugh at things that are all about "shock value" for instance..one day at the airport waiting for a plane...i witnessed a 70something year old couple on the conveyor..with their luggage and their granddaughter..when the conveyor came to the end the elderly couple and grandchild had a 3 person pileup on top of eachother..at first i was like OMG..then I lol'ed because it was like watching Americas Funniest Home Videos...no one helped everyonelaughed and pretended it never happened..like the elderly couple wanted to save themselves from mberassment...you could tell.

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kitch

wait they were standing on the conveyor belt and slammed into the port thing at the end? that is pretty funny.

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turmaline

Yes, it was the end line for them.

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HTAM

One day while I still lived in Denver, I was sitting outside late afternoon having a smoke.

I see this guy coming down the street riding a 10 Speed, and he's riding with no hands and has his arms up in the air like wings on a plane. Well, he decided to try and guide his bike onto the side walk via a drive way entrance.

Parked at the curb was a pick up truck. On the other side of the side walk was a row of hedges. He tried to dodge the side view mirror, but the hedges hadn't been trimmed and it was like they reached out and grabbed the guy.

He disappeared behind the truck and the back tire of the bike fly up and appeared to bounce off of the guy as the bike flipped forward in the air.

I threw my cigarette down and went inside because I started laughing so hard. I didn't want the guy to hear me because it was a huge biff, man. The door was still open though. I could see him get up, and then look up and down the street to see if anyone saw what happened as he brushed himself off.

That was the best part. Him prairie doggin' to see if anyone saw him. Still laugh at that.

*He wasn't trying to be funny and he was hilarious

Grieves

The golden rules of humor are that if you need to ask, you are not funny...If you laugh at yourself and no one else does, you are not funny....If you need to force the point, you are not funny....If you think that you are too smart for "your" humor and people are too ignorant to understand, you are delusional and not funny....

Most "packaged" humor isn't trying to sell jokes, they are trying to sell ad time to their sponsors, so it isn't surprising that the "humor" is left out of most mainstream productions...

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The Rev

Humor is all about surprise.





The Rev

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The Don

I'll be honest, I read the first 2 paragraphs and then I wanted to tell my joke:

One cow says to another cow, "Damnit I'm scared of this Mad Cow Disease. Do you know any of the symptons?" The other cow replies, "Fuck if I know, I'm a helicopter."

See that's humour.

I'll read the rest of your post now.

Bearsy

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Flamingnun

lol. Once StateOfKane, always StateOfKane.

What with experiencing a severe member shortage and all at the minute, is he really the demographic we want to appeal to?

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Geeno

I think OP obv is experiencing depression.

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Rubix

Big lol

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Flamingnun

* Is depressing.

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turmaline

Yeah wtf? pushes OP down and stuff his shorts with dog pooh..then laughs when he crys out loud..then films if for others to lol.

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Home Wrecker

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The Rev

I was a camp counselor when I was 19, and I had this kid in my cabin named Jeremy. Jeremy was a pissy kid, and would shit all over any ideas for having fun that you could suggest. He was just contrary. However, if you got him going, and gave him encouragement, he really lit up. He'd try harder, and have more fun, than any of my other kids.

That's the fucked up thing about depression. It can cut you off from what you need most.



The Rev

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