What Makes YOU Laugh?

[InNeedOfLaughter]

I was reading on here some very funny stories by people like, Bob Monkhouse, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper etc - Jokes are they a thing of the past - I hope not … they have been a great distraction from all the gloom and doom in the last few days … really liked this one;
If you’re an American 🇺🇸 when you go into the bathroom AND an American when you come out of the bathroom … what are you when you’re in the bathroom?
ANSWER: you’re European (you-r-a-peein)

[InNeedOfLaughter]

Good laugh this morning on ‘Sunday with Laura Kussenberg’ … BBC NEWS got their titling and video presets all out of sync and obliterated the live interview with Liz Truss - and worse … transmission breaks - Laura is very challenging but irritating for viewers - for goodness sake let the Prime Minister speak -

[treadcarefully]

Also if you Google 'Irish family trying to get bat out of their kitchen' on YouTube.
Sorry I don't know how to link it.
It's hilarious and no bat was hurt!

[Machiato2sugarsextrafoam]

Michelle wolf is very good.

[Jknow]

My boyfriend. He’s the funniest person I’ve ever met, he’s so quick with his humour.

TV wise probably Gavin and Stacey and a series called Camping by Julia Davis are the funniest things I’ve ever watched.

[treadcarefully]

The Inbetweeners and The Royale Family.

[Tittyfilarious81]

Billy Connelly, Dave Allen , Monty python films especially life of Brian and Blackadder are some of my absolute favorites

[InNeedOfLaughter]

Billy Connelly … “The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.”

[CadburyCrunchy]

@InNeedOfLaughter I like watching Little Britain and Vicky Pollard... one episode recently where a teacher was talking to Vicky and reminding her that her GCSE exams would be soon so she needed to study... Vicky looked puzzled and replied 'GCS what?'!'

[Everydaywheniwakeup]

Taskmaster
Not nowadays, but Never mind the Buzzcocks when it was hosted by Mark Lamarr.

[InNeedOfLaughter]

Some very strange and unusual noises - did you manage to avoid laughing? 😂

[JaneJeffer]

Yes I do @pinkbowl

[andtheweedonkey]

Mock the Week and HIGNFY last night.

[Llamapalma]

And many other SS clips!

[cookiecreammmpie]

Inappropriate jokes.

[Freshberry]

Elton John singing I'm Still Standing in that lockdown concert, in his garden, next to a basketball hoop.

Frasier, Modern Family.

Steve Carrell.

[pinkbowl]

@JaneJeffer

@pinkbowl that clip is so famous in Ireland there was a spoof documentary about it

Excellent 😆 Do you have the sickness too?

[TheHoover]

I CANNOT stop laughing at this (not safe for kids’ earshot)
twitter.com/david_firth/status/1575473269351845888?s=48&t=bLOfUpGkshRF4GyXhgejtQ

[grey12]

This is good 👍

[hellcatspangle]

Two doors down

[lljkk]

DC say it's hard to make me laugh.

I like small moments humour. I like wry commentary & Indirect "in" witty jokes that are observational, like Larry the Cat saying this week I don’t know about you but I’m getting worried for how bad things might get once the honeymoon period is over…

The cat oblivious to his tail in the washing up bowl is funny. Cycling-out-of-Context on Twitter is funny. .

I like fairly dark humour. I like situational gags. There's a scene in This Life when Ed's dad has just had a one night stand (which Ed will no doubt disapprove of); hiding his activities, dad streaks thru the flat starkers just as others are getting out of bed to go to work. Anna sees him and has an expression like "I haven't even had my coffee yet. But Ok. What's going to happen next?" That makes me smile even now.

Family Guy & The Simpsons are dull.

I dislike someone getting injured, "embarrassment" (Happy Days), anxiety-based, everything going wrong at once or bullying humour (MASH). Jokes that depend on a specific personality fall flat on me. Am bored by slapstick, and never find bodily functions droll. I struggle with puns but I can quite enjoy a perfect Dad joke. Also can enjoy complete un-PC jokes as long as they are witty.

[SirChenjins]

Oh and French and Saunders doing their Comic Relief pisstakes. I can’t watch Mama Mia, Downtown or The Repair Shop in the same way now.

[JaneJeffer]

@pinkbowl that clip is so famous in Ireland there was a spoof documentary about it

[Mamoun]

@theluckiest

This still makes me laugh and I've seen it many, many times

Oh my goodness I am crying

[pinkbowl]

@JaneJeffer

@pinkbowl enjoy

Thank you for the laughs 😆

[RestedDevelopment]

I love the like of Terry Pratchett’s wordplay, and absurdity like Monty Python.

Equal measures of cleverness & silliness to appeal to both the adult & child in me.

Crossing a gate by leaning over it with one arm & flipping my legs over it never, ever gets old for me until presumably I get too old to for it

I try not to laugh at my cats falling off things but the utter look of disdain by one (she always looks like she’s arching a highly manicured eyebrow - despite her total lack of eyebrows) cracks me up.

Getting a laugh from the elderly ladies I visit who are as tickled at a ‘young thing’ knowing old sayings as I am at being thought of as a ‘young thing’.

And MN. Not everything on here obvs, but enough to keep me from wanting to burn the whole world down wrt to more serious posts.