How is your humour?

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A lot of my laughter is internal; I usually just crack a smile. I do occasionally laugh out loud when I find something extremely funny, but it's still rather quiet. I don't know that I could describe exactly what it is I find funny, though; it seems to be a case of "I know it when I see it". It may be irony, slapstick, surrealism, black humor, absurdity, word play, or any other number of things, but it all depends on the individual joke or gag and who is performing it.

I tend to have a spontaneous, stream-of-consciousness style of humor, making jokes as they occur to me. They aren't always appropriate, but then, I tend to make them more for my own amusement than others.

A bit dark and unusual. I find that people find me the funniest when I happen to unwittingly share a continuous stream of thought when I am speaking. They seem to find my thought processes rather humorous, which after I finish the thought, I usually do as well.

This is the first thing I thought of when I saw your post title. Humorous, or just associative-- you tell me.

My humor tends to be very punny, and I think it's funny when people groan at my jokes. My mind does weird things with word association and rhyming.

Darn it. It was a graph of the four humors of Hippocratic medicine.

I can laugh at some jokes, but quite often I may laugh or smile at stuff that isn't funny at all. I also keep going on and on with the same jokes until people tell me face to face that it's not funny..

I love funny stuff! I like oddball stuff like Monty Python, and just Brit humor in general (Red Dwarf, AbFab, Father Ted). I like situation comedy -- REAL situation stuff like The Office or the old Dick Van Dyke Show, rather the punchline-a-minute style of today's sitcoms. I also love puns and inside joke kind of stuff. I LOVE the Marx Brothers. Groucho's one liners crack me up. Not a Three Stooges fan, but I'm not sure why because I enjoy some slapstick and visual humor, such as genius silent comic Harold Lloyd. I also like standup comics, but they have to be really smart and clever -- favorites include Louis CK, Lewis Black and Christopher Titus.

As for myself, I'm told I'm really funny. I'm not good at telling the long, drawn out jokes. I prefer the quick short ones that cut to the chase. I'm good with the witty comebacks, and I have a really good memory for remembering and retelling bits from standup comedians. From all the laughs I get, I must do it pretty well.

One place I DO have problems with is laughs at my expense. I seem to always take it personally and can never tell when they're joking. And for some reason, many times people will say something to me, I'll take it literally and make a comment or explanation about it. When they say "Hey, I was just kidding around," I'll act like I knew it all along and say something like "Yeah, I knew that. I was just saying..."

In real life I am a master at deadpan and dark humor.

The best kind.

Deadpan humor is easy for me because my natural lack of facial expression and tonality gives me a sizeable advantage.