What is it that makes us laugh? Is there a type of Stephen Hawking, "One principle to 'Rule Them All'" quality to humor? Now I've got quite a broad sense of humor. From the dry, deadpan sarcasm of the Brits, aka The Alan Parsons Project and Monty Python, to the physical comedy of Americans, aka the Three Stooges and Adam Sandler punching out Bob Barker. I like the refined wit and charm of Oscar Wilde while at the same time am all-to-eager to settle for fart and poop noises. Pretty much, the penultimate example of humor for me would be someone walking into a wall while asking: "What's the soup d'jour?"
Recently I was remarking with a co-worker on how surprisingly funny a new show on T.V. was. She responded with a quote from said show that I did not find even remotely funny. Not the first time they used it in the show. Not the second time. And, just as surprising, not even the third time they tried the schtick in the show. It proved to me we all have differing senses of humor.
Apparently, humor is not like beauty. It is much more subjective. Where beauty depends on the beholder at times, there's still un-objectable grandeur in the sunset that no one can really deny. But humor and comedy and making people laugh has not that same quality. What's funny for one is not always funny for another. And certainly there's not the "sunset" of humor.
But if you're in the mood for a laugh...
McSweeney's (particularly the list section)
Monty Python's The Dead Parrot Sketch
Dumb and Dumber Highlights
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Because, quite often, little of what I say is of any lasting value. Though in rare occasion, may I invoke your illative sense. Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem.
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Or was it Bob Barker punching out Adam Sandler...which I would call a Humanitarian Act....for all of us
Well, they traded fist-a-cuffs. I stand by my point that Sandler's blow was much funnier than Barker's. Especially seeing Bob take the "stage hit".
Oh how wrong the price was.
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