Ask Lemmy

Everything can be funny if framed right. Nothing is off the table. But you should always punch up, and never down.

I have the best sense of humor ever. Everything is funny to me. I am completely incapable of taking anything seriously.

As far as what constitutes a good sense of humor I think there are a few ways to see it. One way to see it is being able to "take a joke," to know that you shouldn't be offended depending on the joke.

Another way to see it is the actual understanding/ability to make jokes and to know when to do so.

A third way to see it is with your eyes.

...ok I'll leave. :P

Give shit, take shit, have a laugh about it.

I reckon the key to a good sense of humour is to be able to laugh at yourself.

I like to think so.

Someone with a good sense of humor understands why jokes are funny. Similar to how everyone can enjoy music, but a musician enjoys it differently.

Those people know how to craft a joke, and how to adjust timing to make it funnier, and are the first to laugh or at least acknowledge when that's a good one.

The ability to see what is funny in a situation, quick wit, I think that's a good sense of humor. Understanding what will be funny to your audience. Not mean-ness. Though I do find snarky sarcasm funny, not the hurtful kind.

And yes, sometimes I am funny, or so I am told.

I love puns and word play.

Puns are one of the few forms of humor that doesn't have a target. No one is ever the butt of a pun and that is what I like about them.

NO, YOU CALM DOWN!

Yes, i do. If i can dish it out, i gotta be able to take it back in full.

Half my jokes are about myself anyways.

Apparently not, because I detest webcomics. And people think they are wildly funny and so entertaining. I think once or twice in 10 years I've smirked at a webcomic.

I can laugh at deadpan, satire, parody, dark, puns, self deprecating humor but find it hard to laugh at cringe comedy. I generally get when something is supposed to be funny, but it can be harder with some like satire.
I can't tell whats considered "good" though.

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I think so. Humour was needed growing up in a Scottish school. I approach most things with a sort of 'Gallows Humour'. A kind of pleasantly self-soothing mindset that accepts that we're all pretty much fucked, so we might as well have a laugh while we're at it.

No. I don't like lazy/easy humor, like one-liners and dad jokes and toilet humor.

I like satire and absurdist humor mostly, which alienates people because it requires knowledge of what it is satirizing.

I also like comics who insult everyone mercilessly and don't pull any punches, which is not very popular in the 'sensitivity' climate we have nowadays where certain groups are 'prohibited' from being mocked, or people who think political comedy must be one-sided only.