Do you have a good sense of humor?
For me, somewhat. I could appreciate the humor in a lot of things. But I could be overly sensitive and too serious sometimes as well. Humor is...complex.
shareYes, I am armed and humerus!
Okay that was a very forced pun. Sorry.
I admit it was cute. I smiled.
shareFrog- that was baaaaad! And so funny!
Yes, I laugh at a lot of things, mostly myself. it's much better for one's mental health to not take life so seriously.
As for a sense of humor when it comes to entertainment, I laugh at a lot of things. I mostly prefer old TV sitcoms and shows like the Dean Martin Celebrity roasts (I'm old!) where a celebrity of the week got "roasted" by his Hollywood pals. Those shows are so funny, clean humor, no bad language, just hilarious.
I like plenty of older-fashioned clean humor as well, my main example would be Night Court, which had an overall innocent sense of humor even while it skirted the line of perverse, crass humor with Dan Fielding.
But I heavily appreciate twisted humor, whether it could be called dirty or not. One of my favorite comedies was Bruno, which is a movie a lot of people can't take. Then there is also Movie 43, which is gross and perverse, got terrible reviews, but beneath that surface is a lot of very well done comedy which was assembled by masters of the field. The bad reviews are stuffed with descriptions of shock regarding the content, with very little effort to judge its actual merits. An excellent cult classic, essentially.
I can appreciate good humor in offense, even while disliking the offense itself. The other day I saw a post on here or the TFA board that described the new Star Wars movies as a mouse raping one's childhood, and a childhood snuff film. A somewhat sadistic troll posted a response to that which was completely out of line, yet hilarious: "I wish your childhood had been a snuff film."
That was a pretty creative retort! I might have to use it in a script if it's not already taken from movie dialogue. I had to agree with everyone who called him out on his unwarranted attack, yet also note how much I laughed at it.
I used to love Night Court! Dan Fielding was so obnoxious, but so funny!
There was one scene when he was being his usual crass self. Markie Post's character Christine , who was usually the butt of his perverted humor asked him, "WHY do you always have to act like a rutting pig?"
Dan started singing, "I gotta be meeeee!" That cracked me up totally!
If it's done well, even the most offensive stuff can be really funny.
Thinking back to the old Dick van Dyke Show, there was an episode called "A Word a Day". Ritchie had learned some bad words and he was using them in school, even writing them on the blackboard.
The audience never learns what words he said. But it is even funnier that way. Everyone can think of something bad and fill in the blanks. Sometimes leaving the bad stuff up to the audience's imagination is even funnier.
I never saw Movie 43. Is it a recent film?
It's from 2013, and has a stellar cast including Oscar winners. The Farrelly brothers made it, and there are also talented directors involved like James Gunn, who directed Guardians of the Galaxy, and Elizabeth Banks who directed Pitch Perfect 2 (maybe all three).
It's a skit movie, like Kentucky Fried Movie.
Oh okay, never heard of it.
I heard of Kentucky Fried Movie but I never saw it. Sometimes my taste runs to the odd movies which are satirical, like Spinal Tap.
No worries...pretty good
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