Describe your sense of humor

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I've recently been through some stuff and now I feel like I've lost a great deal of my ability to make people laugh. I think I used to be ok at it. I remember being very upbeat and even silly/ridiculous at times. Clever remarks and puns were also a mainstay...which I still do but to much less effect.

In trying to make more friends I'm finding the ability to joke around is crucial. I'm just not so good at it anymore. Maybe I never was.

What's your sense of humor like? Do other people get it?

My sense of humor is the accumulation of all the things I have found funny. It's influenced by Black Adder, Monty Python, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Salman Rushdie, (liberal) Dennis Miller, Terry Pratchett, and a homeless man I once met.

My ideal position for conveying humor is to be the passionately lunatic straightman. I find it hilarious, for instance, to expound with vim and vigor the value of redheads, or why meerkats would make great salesmen. Doubly so if I am convincingly deadpan.

Like Andy Kaufman, I find it hilarious to stretch a rant into "wow. He's really given this a lot of thought" territory, into "ok, I'm pretty sure he's just making this up. He must be having trouble keeping a straight face," then finally into "I have no idea if he was serious or not, but I'll never look at meerkats the same way again."

In other words, I have no idea, nor do I know how funny I am to other people.

My sense of humor is very self-depricating, sarcastic, dark, and unusual. I don't really find silliness or slapstick all that funny, unless it's happening to animals xP. I also don't find mockery funny. The only kind of silliness that sometimes makes me laugh is funny voices or ridiculous faces, that's about it.
Spending so much time on the Internet, I feel like the things I find funniest are memes. *shrug* Most of them are difficult to understand unless you are able to fully comprehend the meaning behind them. Trying to figure them out at first glance is like trying to discern the funniness of an inside joke, because that's basically what they are. Yet they are so outrageous and relatable that I just spend hours laughing at them like an idiot. Hehehe.
Deadpan humor from shows such as The Office also works. And I'm not sure how I would describe this kind of humor but the funniest movie ever, in my opinion, would be Mean Girls.
Loooooong story short, I have a rather NT sort of sense of humor. :/
At least, I feel it's that way.
To my friends, I am very funny because I make a fool of myself all the time.

My sense of humor is pretty juvenile. I find things like bathroom jokes, sex jokes and swearing to be humorous. I also really enjoy non-sequitars. (sp?)

Hard to describe. People laugh for no reason when I speak. I have sense of humor like "I am so cheap I use cloth diapers" I make fun of peoples ignorance and insults they do. People just seem to find humor in me when I am not even trying to be funny.

One of my humors I have did on another forum was "I hate black and white, I prefer color" and it was about a song granatelli here wrote about his wife and he posted it here and at other aspie forums as well and I posted it on I2 since he forgot that place.

One of my humors lately has been calling my breasts my udders and calling myself a cow and calling my breast pump my parlor. I even asked my husband if we can make a parlor in my home and he kept saying 'You're not a cow." I have even called my son's bedroom my parlor because that was where I'd pump my milk.

I also do word play and have made fun of the Asperger's label like in my South park fanfiction because I had Eric Cartman call the aspie character an ass and said no wonder they call it ass burgers, get it.

When I first had my baby, I used to say my baby sucks because he would suck the milk out of my boobs when I feed him so I say he sucked. Now I don't do that joke as often because it's not as funny and it's getting old. I also used to say I wish he sucks when he wouldn't latch on and I would say I am so glad our baby sucks and tell my son how much he sucks. I share my humor with him sometimes.

And some of my jokes can be hurtful and I don't realize it. Sometimes my jokes are disturbing like the time I said I was humping my baby because I was trying to get rid of his gas so I was bouncing him up and down on my chest and it felt like I was humping him so I said it to my husband and his response was "That isn't funny Beth" and I asked him why and he said he is a kid and I am making sexual jokes with him. Butt I still don;t get it because it's not real. It wouldn't be funny if it was actually happening. But since it wasn't happening, it was funny because of the scene. I was bouncing him up and down and it felt like I was masturbating him as in rubbing him to get a sexual pleasure out of him but I really wasn't. And another time (this was a year ago) I told him I should have miscarriages more often and he shouted "no" and didn't find it funny either and he told me how upsetting it was. I said that because he was telling me how I was more loving and affectionate because of the hormones due to losing the baby so I made that joke because I know how much he wants that from me and with those hormones, it made it natural so I said I should have miscarriages more often.

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My sense of humor is sarcastic, witty, and very, very dry. People often think I'm being mean when I'm just making a joke.

dry or super disgusting

People tend to get my jokes, even if they don't appreciate them. I'm not a fan of juvenile humor. Slapstick and potty jokes don't impress me but I still greatly adore The Trailer Park Boys. I see "Julian, Ricky and Bubbles" differently than I see Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Lewis, or Jim Carrey. Bill Hicks, Steven Wright, Christopher Titus, Eddie Izzard, Kathleen Maddigan, Danny Bhoy, etc... these are the comedians whose work I appreciate. Insight, delivery, composition and originality matter to me.

My favorite jokes to tell are the simple ones I tell my kids because then they can repeat them to everyone they know.

Why'd the chicken cross the road? [why?]
To get to your house.
Knock, knock [who's there?]
A chicken.

Two dogs were sitting under a tree in the backyard. One dog said to the other, "It's a really nice day today." and the other dog said, "Holy crap! A talking dog!"

When ducks are migrating and they form a "v" formation. Why is one side of the "v" always longer than the other?
Because there's more ducks on that side.

etc etc etc etc...

Self-deprecating, dry, sarcastic, and actually quite quick witted (which to me at least is odd, as I'm monstrously awkward in social situations apart from this one case.) My biggest problem is that I'm often laughing at something three-steps-ahead in the conversation or my chain of thought, and I have to remember to fill everyone else in on the intermediates.

I really enjoy laughing, especially when people are laughing with me. It's a small window of time where I don't feel any social pressure or anxiety from being with others; a real breath of fresh air for me.

If I were going to pick a favourite comedian then it would definitely be Eddie Izzard. I love the callbacks in his routine, and how he weaves a circuitous comedy path into a circle. Plus of course I'm a highly visual thinker, and the mental imagery he produces for me I find hilarious!

I'M COVERED IN BEES!! !

lol - I love that sketch.

"My father was a beekeeper before me,
his father was a beekeeper before him.
I want to follow in their footsteps, which were like this:
Aaaaa! Aaaaaaaaaa! I'm covered in bees!"

Have you see the Madison Square Garden concert? Just came out on Netflix a little while ago, and is great.

Yes! Beesus!!

lol - I was thinking exactly the same thing!

To be perfectly honest, I don't really know how to describe my sense of humor. I suppose it consists of shows like Ed Edd 'n Eddy, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons. However, I don't know how to explain that in words. I guess I just find whatever I find funny as being funny.