What makes something funny?

[jordan_c_price]

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[marasmine]

I don't like slapstick or pranks as a rule (there are very rare exceptions). I can't remember any one playing pranks on me for April Fools day, although I have been caught in 'everyone' jokes from time to time. I suspect that I don't hide my feelings too well at minor pranks on other people or just the recounting of them, so am ruled out as being a miserable cow with no sense of humour. If the person being pranked can't laugh about it, then it isn't a harmless prank, it's a malicious act. Not many people like to think of themselves as malicious.

I like sarcastic comments and throw-away lines in stories. I find witty repartee between a group of characters difficult to follow when it is in US-speak and probably need to be told it is witty repartee and not just random page filling or a serious argument :)

A lot of British humour does not translate, but as we are exposed to most popular US TV shows we can follow more of the US in-jokes from popular culture. Not that I'm very good at British in-jokes from TV programs. But then I don't like sit-coms either (see miserable cow comment above)

I just have a weird sense of humour that gets me in trouble with people that don't get it more often than I get a laugh.

[jordan_c_price]

British humor seems pretty accessible to me, but I definitely have trouble differentiating between Brits who are quipping back and forth and Brits who are actually arguing. I think everyone's just being playful unless it comes to blows :D