Do you consider yourself funny? Witty? Do people tell you, you have a dry sense of humour? Or can you make people roll on the floor with laughter...I mean the real belly laugh? What makes you laugh? Would you consider yourself to have a good sense of humour?Why do I ask these questions....well as I go around and I read comments left on blogs I have found that humour takes on many different forms... what some people find funny, I just don't get at all. I know today for example I visited a sight and what I read on the post I found actually upsetting...and although I did not state that I found the attitude of the authors post offensive I did let the author know that what they thought was "cute" and "funny" could actually be very harmful. I went back later in the day to read other comments left on this authors blog....and although there were one or two that sort of thought along the same lines as me....most thought it was humorous. I didn't find the humour in it at all.
So I started to ask myself, what is funny to me. I think the best way for me to answer that, is to recognize what I do not find funny. For starters, I do not find racial jokes funny at all....I don't find making fun of some one's accent funny or cultural mannerism funny. I know I have difficulties distinguishing between when someone is being serious or trying to pull my leg, that is when they get me. I call that teasing....and I truly despise being teased. The teasing where the person presents as being serious until such time that they finally realize that you think they are serious and that is when they hit you with it....tell you they are just teasing... That to me is just not nice. Humour to me should not be at some one else's expense. Not to laugh at some one's misfortune unless the person who experienced the unfortunate incident makes a joke of it themselves.
So what do I find funny......political satire is very funny to me. Rick Mercer makes me laugh....he presents some serious issues in a very jovial manner and helps us laugh at ourselves. That joke I posted yesterday for example...."you might be Canadian" now that made me laugh. People doing very silly things on purpose makes me laugh.....like the old Monty Python's funny walk skit...that use to make me laugh. My hubby says I am to serious.....I just say we have a different sense of humour.
I know there are so many benefits to humour. They say that humour is so good for the body and mind. I went to a site to find some
information on laughter atLaughing Burns Calories they had this to say..."The idea that laughter benefits health has been around for many years, possibly because it reduces muscle tension, increases the amount of oxygen in the blood, exercises the heart and produces happy chemicals in the brain called endorphins. It certainly makes sense that laughing would burn more calories too, as a result of the extra movement and increase in heart rate linked with laughing."So I am back to my original question...what makes you laugh....do you consider yourself funny?
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I don't know as if I consider myself to be funny.......I've been told I can be very entertaining and am not sure if it's the same........I don't like laughing at someone else's expense either. Usually the funniest things I find to laugh at are the antics of little children........now that's funny!
Hugs my friend!
I know what you mean - I know someone who always comments in what they think is a funny way but it is always the negative side of things. It seems they can't just plain say 'oh isn't that true' or 'I've felt that way too' or something of that nature. Instead they always say 'yeah but if this happens or that happens look out LOL'. I don't find this funny and not when it happens with every comment made and on everyone's blog they visit. We all mention at one time or another when the negative side of things happen but we don't do it with every single comment. Myself I am always in awe of people who have a clever and witty comment to make on the spur of the moment. I guess I am fairly serious too.
Life is too serious to be taken seriously. I really try to find the humor in just about every situation and learn to just go with it.
I try to be respectful, but at the same time...I don't beat myself up to be "politically correct" all the time.
Like you, I despise racial jokes and don't find them in the least bit funny. I also hate jokes about homosexuals and fat people. Making jokes about people who are different than the "mainstream" are offensive. It often amazes people that I don't laugh or will walk away when the racial, fat and homosexual jokes start to fly.
I do like good natured teasing. A playful banter between people who know each other well makes me smile and enjoy my day a little more. Teasing when you don't really know the other person can be hurtful without even knowing it so I tend not to do that.
I have a "dry sense" of humor I suppose. I'm pretty witty at times and I can be fairly sarcastic, which is a trait I'm not terribly proud of.
So, a funny thing that happened just yesterday. (Funny to me, see if you agree.) A male nurse and I were in a room tending to a patient who was generally just not feeling well. She was cold so I gave her some warm blankets. Just as I put the nice warm blankets on top of her and covered her with more blankets the male nurse pulled the blankets down and gave her an IV medication. I smiled down to the woman and said, "Isn't that just like a man, they always want to take things off." She smiled for the first time that day, the nurse (who has been a friend of mine for years) laughed. As I left the room with my fellow nurse we were still smiling and so was the patient.
Sorry, didn't mean for the response to be so long.
I find some political jokes funny, I especially like Jon Stewart. I have found that humor is so important when working in stressfull situations. I absolutely hate racial, gender and fat jokes.
I'm not very funny but I love humor and am drawn to people with a great sense of humor. I'm with you about things I don't find funny. To me the test though is if the person can laugh at themselves and at their ethnic/cultural group. It can be funny for someone to make fun of themselves or people like them. Those are the ethnic jokes which work for me. It doesn't work for me when the person is making fun of someone else's group. Not sure if I'm making sense but that's how I see it.
I like laughing. I'm really bad at telling jokes... I cannot tell a joke if my life depended on it. People say I make them happy because the way I smile. That's good enough. LOL. Certain jokes have hurt me that I have read along the blogs lately and I just don't go back to them. And there has been a lot of them. But that's where we have that choice, I suppose.
Martie....oh yes childrens antics can make me smile and giggle....like watching them try and put on their socks for the first time...they want to do it themselves...but the way they do it...well it is so adorable it just has to make you smile and giggle...
Janice....I would have to agree with you....I geuss it's a talent to be able to find the other side of things...but not always making it negative at some one elses expense...
Silverneurotic....life can be to serious at times.....my work can be very serious at times and stressful...I have a saying at work....if I don't laugh I will cry....but I won't laugh at some one else's expense...and when I hear a joke I don't approve of...I often do say I don't approve or I just do laugh and if the situation permits, I walk away. As far as the political correctness goes...well that is a whole different ball game so many variables enter into that category...and when I think of policat correctness I don't think of humour...
My own woman.....now you are funny and sarcastic but in a real way....I think I find you humourous because we are in the same profession...and sometimes I think only people who work in our profession can truly understand or find the humour in some of the things we see or experience on a daily basis. Now what you said to that patient is funny and I am glad they laughed...but you see I would not have been as quick as you to come up with something like that...and I think we often have to have built a repore with that patient before we can start joking..and I would assume in this case you had....
minnesotablue.....yeah fat jokes...don't like them either...
Carver....yes when we can laugh at ourselves....I for one am a good one for laughing at myself...stupid things I have done....I remember posting on my blog one time about liquid laundry soap falling on the floor and all the funny and crazy things that happend to me while I was trying to clean it up....but it was me telling it and that it was all to bizzare not to be funny...but I don't knowing if I would have found it funny if someone laughed at my expense without me first finding the humour in the situation...
Michele....I am the worst joke teller in the world....I can't remember a joke if my life depended on it as you say....I love good clean fun.....
Laughter can be so theraputic when used correctly.
Thank you all for your great comments...
i agree with what you don't find funny.. but there are alot of folks out there that do find stuff like that funny and lean on it heavily it's kinda sad really
I have to say that I agree most with silverneurotic.
Funny is a subjective experience and differs from person to person.
It is simply impossible to please everyone "all" of the time.
Trying to do so is a huge waste of time and kills any originality in ones own creative self expression.
Be true to yourself and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes jokes go over well and other times they do not.
Don't let other people determine who you "should" be, just be who you really are.
I love to laugh, too, but can't remember a joke if MY life depended on it. In fact, my girls tease me about that! I've told them that at my funeral, I want them to roast me - tell everyone about all the crazy silly things I do and say and get everyone laughing. For example, how I love to sing along with the radio while driving but when I don't know the words I end up going "la la la" - I can be SO ridiculous, but I do laugh at myself! lol
"You might be a Canadian if" joke was hilarious!!! My friends think I'm funny, but my hubby think I'm sarcastic. LOL!
Good evening, I am not into all this joke telling, most jokes are stupid..I like the story of the nurses,it made me smile, but then I am a nurse also and can relate to it.
Children make me smile and laugh...I love being around my grandkids...
I've been told I'm funny. I think it was a compliment.
I have a very odd sense of humor. A Far Side sense of humor if you will.
I know what you mean. I try never to bw hurtful with what I say here and I do find that what others find funny I don't always myself.
One man's meat is another man's poison - and the same goes for humour I think.
I don't care for racist jokes at all, but I do get wound up about the PC brigade who see racism in everything, when it just isn't there!
it's not that funny to THINK yourself funny but very funny to BE it... funniness is a very funny thing
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love that blue jay/bird thing just over your provincial flag...
Somtimes being able to laugh is the only thing that pulls me through ;-)
Let me first tell you what I don't think is funny is to find humor in someone misfortune (boy I don't think I got that spelled right)
Years ago I met a person would laugh at any who got hurt.
From some family grieving a lost or some one stubbing there toe and she actual thought that was funny.
To me I see no humor in other person hurt.
Some people say I'm pretty witty. If I didn't laugh I would go crazy.
I think that funny things can be quite unfunny in writing and yet hilarious when heard in person. We always should be careful about who we share certain types of humour with. I have often found it interesting when a particular race makes a joke about his/her own race and we laugh and yet when a person of a different race makes that same joke about another person's race it is very offensive.
Humor is a funny thing! Pardon the pun. :-)
I tend to like risque humor but can find almost anything funny. And my friends often think I'm funny, when I'm not bitching about the condition of mankind and the world, that is all I have to go by.
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