Where's my funny?
I'm looking for (new) stuff that makes me laugh, and I'd be very grateful for suggestions/ideas.
I am absolutely not into any kind of humiliation or embarrassment humour (I don't think I've ever managed to watch an entire episode of Fawlty Towers from beginning to end in one sitting, although it was repeated enough times on Australian TV that I've seen all of it at some point). Similarly, I don't care for bodily function humour, or anything that is sexist, racist, homophobic, ablist, etc. If anything, it's funnier when the oppressed point out the foilibles of the oppressors.
The funniest movie I can remember seeing is Galaxy Quest, and I liked The Dish, and I remember laughing a lot when I first read the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I've now read it just about too many times to be funny anymore). I have mixed success with Pratchett, he makes me smirk rather than laugh mostly. Unfortunately, other things I've really laughed at are rather obscure - there's this Danish cartoon of two grumpy middle-aged people standing next to a frozen pond, while an older women gleefully skates around on it, and the caption translates to something like "You really should say something to your mother, she's not 70 anymore".
So I guess I like geeky, science-y, intellectual humour, stuff that pokes at shared human foilibles rather than "those other people over there" and stuff that has an unexpected twist.
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I am absolutely not into any kind of humiliation or embarrassment humour (I don't think I've ever managed to watch an entire episode of Fawlty Towers from beginning to end in one sitting, although it was repeated enough times on Australian TV that I've seen all of it at some point). Similarly, I don't care for bodily function humour, or anything that is sexist, racist, homophobic, ablist, etc. If anything, it's funnier when the oppressed point out the foilibles of the oppressors.
The funniest movie I can remember seeing is Galaxy Quest, and I liked The Dish, and I remember laughing a lot when I first read the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I've now read it just about too many times to be funny anymore). I have mixed success with Pratchett, he makes me smirk rather than laugh mostly. Unfortunately, other things I've really laughed at are rather obscure - there's this Danish cartoon of two grumpy middle-aged people standing next to a frozen pond, while an older women gleefully skates around on it, and the caption translates to something like "You really should say something to your mother, she's not 70 anymore".
So I guess I like geeky, science-y, intellectual humour, stuff that pokes at shared human foilibles rather than "those other people over there" and stuff that has an unexpected twist.
This entry is originally published at http://aquaeri.dreamwidth.org/82200.html. Please go here to read comments; here to leave a comment (you can use your LJ OpenID).
comments so far.