Profanity

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Do you find profane words funny?
I don't but I find word mixes VERY funny.
For example: "I've had it up to here with your fu--ery!"
or "Did you read her obitchuary in the newspaper?"

The word strapper makes me snicker.

It depends upon the usage.
Throwing them around aimlessly, no. They are not funny. Those who do so merely prove their Intelligence Quotient to be below the number fünfundachtzig.
However, clever usage of the words OR when people say them for purely humorous purposes (NOT using them every other word), I find them funny.

Not really. I mean sometimes profanity can be funny. Like if a dude is pissed at an inanimate object (like a video game or a car) and he yells "f**k ME! IN THE ASS!! !!". Just being used or having prefixes or suffixes added doesn't effect me usually. Sometimes when girls cuss lightly it is hot though.

Honestly profanity is usually 99% not funny. I only find it funny in irony like "Would you kindly F*** off." It's not all that funny that way either. Realistically I never cuss in public or talk about crude things in general public areas, but sometimes I find my self saying some pretty bad things to really hard games that have made me and my friends laugh, but I think again it's the irony or the schizo nature (I have a weird brand of humor... I'm not schizophrenic) of what I say... not the profanity at all (I've said much funnier things without profanity anyway). So no profanity isn't funny... in fact when I use it I tend to feel stupid, and even ask myself what the hell what I just said even meant.

I love watching Penn & Teller's Showtime show, the very name of which is a profanity. Penn Gillette really is a master of salty language, when he really gets into going off on something it's like watching an Olympic Athlete at the top of their game.

It also depends on the context. Usually it's not the use of profanity itself that's funny.

When I was a kid, I use to think it was funny when my evil little grandmother used profanity. My grandfather would look at me and I would look at him and it took everything we had not to bust out laughing at her. We would usually leave the scene quickly to keep from cracking up. Otherwise she would of whacked us both good.

Looking at her, no one would ever suspect my evil little grandmother of using profanity so it was surprising just to hear her cuss and it was funny how she said and used those words.

Exactly! It drives me utterly nuts that most of the comedians on Comedy Central these days use so much profanity when their stand up is played during daytime hours, all it is is bleeps every couple of seconds through their entire act. It's gotten ridiculous. So much so they couldn't use profanity AS a joke because it's so intrinsic to their normal speech it isn't going to take me off guard. Not funny at all. What makes it so stupid with most of them is that most of their routines would be far funnier if they would quit swearing so much.

This is one of my all time favorite skits. No profanity at all until right around 4:00 on the counter. Watch the whole thing anyway. It's freaking hilarious!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMktzmxGu5Y[/youtube]

Only the great Cosby could pull this off.

It can be very funny depending on the situation. I'm a huge South Park fan

I see nothing funny about using profanities, especially in media, entertainment and politics. When I hire a movie and they start swearing I'm put off, sometimes even revolted, like Adam Sandler's recent Funny People. It was a huge let down within the first few minutes because of the vulgarity of the script and story line. Totally disappointed.

I sometimes resort to swearing simply because I can't find adequate words to express myself in the heat of emotion. I don't like it and will never ever use a profanity within ear shot of a child.

Children using profanites is NOT funny. I can be very judgemental of parents and guardians who let their children swear or encourage it because they think it's funny. Even the kid swearing in Ben Stiller's Meet The Fockers was not funny, it was disturbing and alarming.

edit: double posted

When I first heard the word "f**k head" I thought it was funny and kept on using it. I had to get my mouth slapped to stop using it.

Q. What do you call a bull dog and a Shih Tzu?

A. A BS

I heard that joke when I was 15 and loved it. I told this to my ex aspie mate and he figured out the answer before I could tell it to him. To him it was just obvious. He took the beginning of the names and put them together.


Overall I don't like profanity so I hardly use it. I only use it to express my anger and I think people who curse a lot have anger problems because they are angry all the time.

I ignore it in movies and I don't find any humor. But I do find the joke funny I just told.

Nowadays lots of parents & guardians curse at their kids & this is what happens & I laugh my butt off

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XCpFsrRXxg[/youtube]

Be happy I didn't post a song vid from the South Park movie

I think "gangsta" talk is funny. I'm not even going to embed this. It's R rated material.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBaEEODzU0

I very rarely curse around other people because I don't want to sound unintelligible. If you have noticed in my posts on WrongPlanet, though, I tend to be sort of foul-mouthed whenever I'm having really bad stress or am pretty irate and need to rant over it. Also, whenever I'm by myself, I can be a real foul-mouth.

haaha hahaaha... Thanks Nick, I needed that!