Comedy is it Universal at all?

DianneW · 06-09-2021, 02:30 PM

People completely missed the sick joke over the beer can scare crow..all about how man is destroying the land....Jokes come in many forms and you have decided you know my humour from just a couple of examples....no way, never been that shallow.

**Marie Monday** · 06-09-2021, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DianneW

People completely missed the sick joke over the beer can scare crow..all about how man is destroying the land....Jokes come in many forms and you have decided you know my humour from just a couple of examples....no way, never been that shallow.

wut, I never said such a thing
Don't take the surprise thing too literally, it's hard to explain but in the case of the duck example I mean the connection between the picture and the correlation vs. causality principle is apt but surprising and just the right amount of absurd. There are many exceptions to that though, like you said humour comes in many forms. And I agree that laughing at yourself is great and very important

The Batlord · 06-09-2021, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DianneW

People completely missed the sick joke over the beer can scare crow..all about how man is destroying the land....Jokes come in many forms and you have decided you know my humour from just a couple of examples....no way, never been that shallow.

The sheer amount of "wife bad" cartoons you post mark you clearly as a boomer.

**Marie Monday** · 06-09-2021, 03:53 PM

Well that's true, except misogynist teenage boys probably like wife bashing jokes too

rostasi · 06-09-2021, 04:23 PM

Comedy is definitely universal - take America, for instance.

The Batlord · 06-09-2021, 06:31 PM

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Comedy is definitely universal - take America, for instance.

Please.

Trollheart · 06-09-2021, 07:06 PM

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so how come...beer cans scarecrow all light hearted stuff....your weird or an alien then..show what is funny to you,,ok I do larf a hell of a lot and see most stuff that is serious as funny these days...Marie..nice name

Nobody got it because tosser doesn't mean the same over there (possibly doesn't mean anything) as it does here, so no joke. Clever, but the correlation between the wording and the picture goes over their heads. I thought it was mildly funny, but not hilarious, but that's because I know what a tosser is.

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where is the surprise?..ducks fly no surprise ok gate damaged, so that's the joke... had ducks in the UK and had to clipped their wings, as they were not bought up in the wild, so pets, special pets, although when they bred one of our chickens sat for the duration of, to hatching then we took over....

Jokes to me are so varied..take the UK CarryOn films..loads and loads of them, funny to me as is the late Kenny Everett....when you can laugh at yourself though your a winner....that's is not so easy really.

Come on, Dianne! It makes it look as if the duck has bent the bars of the gate and walked through. That's why it's funny.

So you've answered your own question there. No, comedy is NOT universal, though sometimes something is just naturally funny, like someone slipping on ice or walking into a door. Even if we want to tell ourselves oh no, we're horrible people if we laugh at that, it's our first instinct to do so.

But comedy varies not only by country but also by person. You might think something is hilarious and I would not, and vice versa. It's all subjective, so it can hardly be universal.

Quick poll: who finds this funny?

DianneW · 06-10-2021, 12:37 AM

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Nobody got it because tosser doesn't mean the same over there (possibly doesn't mean anything) as it does here, so no joke. Clever, but the correlation between the wording and the picture goes over their heads. I thought it was mildly funny, but not hilarious, but that's because I know what a tosser is...Well wanker surely means the same universally so that is what tosser is for the un imformed..

Come on, Dianne! It makes it look as if the duck has bent the bars of the gate and walked through. That's why it's funny..
.ducks have little strength, except the males during mating time, then the males can lift there game to new heights, the green beak brigade show who is who then. two's up time..winner takes all..haha

So you've answered your own question there. No, comedy is NOT universal, though sometimes something is just naturally funny, like someone slipping on ice or walking into a door. Even if we want to tell ourselves oh no, we're horrible people if we laugh at that, it's our first instinct to do so.

But comedy varies not only by country but also by person. You might think something is hilarious and I would not, and vice versa. It's all subjective, so it can hardly be universal.

Quick poll: who finds this funny?

yeah your right though about jokes etc., it is not really universal but we can all laugh at bad stuff as well as good.....just not necessarily the same thing...one day it seem hilarious and another day WTF...life aye...
p.s. yes the sketch was funny, he has been in so many progs. was good in Holby City a Hospital Drama could have been a real drama having read this a while back..is it funny well not exactly, but made me grin...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...n-window-ledge

rostasi · 06-09-2021, 07:11 PM

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Please.

ba dum tsss...

Lisnaholic · 06-09-2021, 05:05 PM

I liked the Marie/Frownland one about Correlation VS. Causation. It's a joke at the expense of people like me who are quite capable of mixing the two up.

Yes, absolutely agree that to laugh at yourself is very commendable. In fact, Arthur Koestler, who struggled (as a Jewish communist) to survive in Nazi-occupied Europe once commented that one of the remarkable features of the Nazi's was their lack of humour regarding themselves. They took themselves far too seriously in his opinion. I sometimes wonder about QAnon or the Taliban; would Koestler find them short on humour too?

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People completely missed the sick joke over the beer can scare crow..all about how man is destroying the land....

I thought that was pretty good, but then I understand exactly the different ways we can use toss/tosser in English. Perhaps other people don't, which brings me to my last point:-

If we want to explore how universal humour is, this might be a better place to begin:-

I bet kids the world over could find that funny and even I can enjoy how cleverly choreographed it is.

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rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,016	Comedy is definitely universal - take America, for instance.