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Penstemmon Mon 28-Nov-16 21:40:11

What do you consider a good sense of humour?

Do you laugh at slapstick, nudge nudge jokes, puns, yourself, shagy dog stories?

Is a 'good sense of humour' the ability to see yourself and laugh?

Legs55 Tue 29-Nov-16 13:40:06

Ken Dodd is one of my all time favourites - good clean humour , he leads you to a certain point - if you make more of it......never swears. Victoria Wood, Jo Brand. Have I got News for You, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Spitting Image to name a few.

Hate most slapstick, Tommy Cooper never appealed to me & hate programmes like Candid Camera & shows with video clips (mostly fake I expect) angry

Laugh at antics of cats especially also dogs, pride myself on my sense of humour, can definitely laugh at myself grin

TriciaF Tue 29-Nov-16 14:27:08

Some of the Goons radio sketches are very funny, especially this one:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOgsNX33byk
Morecambe and Wise for me too, also Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke. Is that situation comedy?
Not so keen on individual stand-up type humour.

radicalnan Tue 29-Nov-16 15:04:22

I love observational and political humour BUT give me my GD Rose(4) and a whoopppeee cushion and life is perfect.

Morgana Tue 29-Nov-16 16:20:44

Loved Billy Cornelly in his early days
And off beat stuff like 2012 with Hugh bonne ville.

Diddy1 Tue 29-Nov-16 16:23:59

I love the Liverpool humour, I am prejudiced of course, coming from there, although I live in Sweden now, but just "coming home" as soon as you get off the train, the humour starts, I really miss it its my kind of humour

Yorkshiregel Tue 29-Nov-16 16:26:07

Our house used to ring with laughter, until my boys all went off to Uni and the big wide world. They used to tease each other, and me, something rotten. In a fun way not a bad way. I missed that. When they all come back to see us the laughter comes back too. My 4yr old grandson now has a gleam in his eye and makes us laugh so maybe one at least has passed his sense of humour on? Hope so.

Yorkshiregel Tue 29-Nov-16 16:28:49

Peter Kay makes me laugh these days. I used to like Les Dawson and also the two Ronnies. Do NOT like female comedians.

wot Tue 29-Nov-16 16:32:01

I think Paul Whitehouse is brilliant and to some extent Harry Enfield. I loved the fast Show and still watch Family Guy although it's very un PC.

wot Tue 29-Nov-16 16:33:09

And, dare I say it, people falling over in the street!

wot Tue 29-Nov-16 16:33:55

Jenny Eclair is funny but rude.

wot Tue 29-Nov-16 16:39:32

The Armstrong and Miller clips were good....I've never seen them before.

TerriBull Tue 29-Nov-16 17:59:18

Forgot Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield some of their characters are very funny.

grannybuy Tue 29-Nov-16 18:21:32

I don't often find sit coms funny, but apart from some of the crudeness, I have laughed out loud at Still Game. Don't often find stand up funny. The Big Bang Theory makes me laugh sometimes. Simple situations can be funny.

clareken Tue 29-Nov-16 19:52:33

I agree with all who mentioned Victoria Wood, but would also add Billy Connelly. Yes, you have to filter out the bad language, but the observational humour is wonderful. Does anyone remember the priest coming for a visit?

Jayh Tue 29-Nov-16 20:08:58

I saw Billy Connolly live in the seventies. I nearly died laughing. His humour was about what I recognised as my childhood in Glasgow. I forgave the swearing. I saw the Full Monty for the first time in the cinema. Very funny

Envious Tue 29-Nov-16 20:29:16

I enjoy laughing but very few things make me laugh out loud so I will "giggle". Would I be pelted with tomatoes if I mentioned Catherine Tate's Nan? I find the shocking language funny. Being an American and brought up quite sheltered I'd never heard such language. I don't find the other characters she does as funny. I also seem to laugh at the show Fraiser it was so cleverly written.

Ana Tue 29-Nov-16 20:35:43

Loved Frazier! Thanks Envious I'd forgotten about that, yes, very clever writing and such wonderful characters (although wasn't that keen on Daphne, she didn't ring true to me!).

Alima Tue 29-Nov-16 20:37:21

I loved Billy Connolly but DH (Scots) had to interpret some bits for me!

Linsco56 Tue 29-Nov-16 20:49:20

Jayh. I also saw Billy Connolly live at the Pavillion in 1974 he was absolutely hilarious. I love observational humour.

Nanna58 Tue 29-Nov-16 21:10:27

Oh god yes, Billy Connolly's incontinence pants sketch makes me weep with laughter just to think about it. Also used to have a fur coat donated by an 'aunt' on our bed at night so his joke" Ma , he's got his legs in the arms of the duvet' appeals to me !

Greyduster Tue 29-Nov-16 21:22:23

Another one here who loved Frasier. "The Innkeepers" with its explosion of cherries jubilee was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And Daphne wasn't the only one who was in love with Nialls!

rosesarered Tue 29-Nov-16 21:26:46

We have all the Frasier series on dvds, marvellous, so clever.The observational humour of Billy Connelly is very funny, but in general don't like stand up comedy.
I liked Jack Dee in the series Lead Balloon, and also the series Outnumbered, written by Andy Hamilton.I will be attacked from all sides no doubt.......because I really didn't like Victoria Wood ( not her personally of course) but her humour.I can't stand Jeremy Hardy either, if I hear his voice the radio gets switched off.grinUsed to love The Fast Show, Stella Street,Red Dwarf amongst many others.
A sense of humour though, is not so much what you like to watch or hear, but more about seeing the funny or surreal side to events or people.

Ana Tue 29-Nov-16 21:33:03

I've never heard of Jeremy Hardy, so he can't be that funny! grin

The Fast Show was brilliant!

JackyB Tue 29-Nov-16 21:41:24

Some things can have me in fits but I can't put my finger on what exactly. Certainly clever word play. I lurve Milton Jones and, not quite so much, Tim Vine.

The only thing that can be guaranteed to make me laugh so much I can only read it on the loo is a book called "Anguished English" by Richard Lederer, which I may have mentioned before. Every page is full of unintentional mistakes made by misspelling or mispronouncing words in English.

Jayh Tue 29-Nov-16 22:34:53

I forgot Frazier even though I have watched the episodes numerous times and they still make me laugh. So does Dad's Army.