INTP humour

[shrub77]

Are you regarded as a humourous person?

People say I have a "Dry Humour" (I think it means witty/satire, though I'm not sure)

I'm wondering whether that's an INTP thing due to the analytical trait.

 

[MissQuote]

I am a huge fan of puns.

I find most humor in human error, particularly my own. The more irrational my behavior, the bigger the pitfalls I unwittingly stumble over, the more I miss the completely obvious and the bigger the mistakes I make because of it the the more utterly hilarious the situation becomes, when I look at it outside of myself.

Also, watching the evening news last night I had a hysterical laughing fit that lasted about fifteen minutes, where I couldn't seem to get myself under control at all- It was a story about some volcano down in mexico, I think it was, somewhere south and warm anyway, and the news anchor was talking about how people where preparing for a possible eruption but the image they put on the screen to show people "preparing" was a guy in an empty street with a bandanna wrapped around his face and he was sweeping the road! Then it zoomed in to the pile of dirt he was sweeping up!

It was just so ludicrous, to think that was how one prepares for a volcano, by cleaning up the empty town all alone out in the street, as though it isn't a force of nature that is going to possibly kill you but something more like your in laws going to come over and judge you if the place is a mess!

I was put into a complete fit over that.

I am really rotten at telling typical jokes though. I fizzle the punch line nearly every time, and can't seem to get my inflections right to make it interesting on the way to the punch line.

 

[Peripheral Visionary]

I am a huge fan of puns.

I suspect this is a universal INTP quality.

I love puns, and throwaway witicisms, and irony.

I am horrible at telling rehearsed jokes. As in: "A Rabbi, a Priest and a Buddhist walk into a laundry mat, and..." etc.

The exception is short "childrens" type jokes, the quick question/answer kind.

Like: What does a pig use when it get's a rash? An OINKment.

The more eye-rolling you get, the more you win.

 

[shrub77]

I keep the same tone of voice when I tell jokes. People have trouble figuring out what's the punchline and laugh inappropriately.

I also like immature jokes:
What's the best part about twenty-four year olds?

There's twenty of them

 

[Vrecknidj]

Word play is common to many INTPs. That said, it's also common to some other types. I know a lt of ENFPs, for instance, who have an amazing sense for puns and play-on-word jokes.

But, I can definitely say for myself that I enjoy a good laugh, but not much actually makes me laugh.

Dave

 

[psion]

Another fan of puns and wordplay here, for sure. I usually don't say too many (as many as I think of anyway) but I thoroughly enjoy when other people do. Besides that, I would say that I am the person who just throws in a witty statement unless directly addressed with a question (or the conversation is of a serious nature). I can also be completely silly, but generally only with a select group of people.

 

[Czech Yes or No]

I keep the same tone of voice when I tell jokes. People have trouble figuring out what's the punchline and laugh inappropriately.

I also like immature jokes:
What's the best part about twenty-four year olds?

There's twenty of them

Yup.

I love irony too.

 

[introverted_thinker]

Witty satire, blue humour and black humour.

Favourite comedian: Frankie Boyle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcJwmSSom0&feature=relmfu

^apologies if anyone is offended by him.

(Actually, I lied. I'm not sorry.)

 

[Dapper Dan]

Wordplay and one-liners. Don't ramble or try to tell about 'that one time'. You'll wind up having to stop and think, or you'll be all over the place. Neither is very funny.

The deadpan delivery is what kills. Keep it short and sweet. Aim for a brief pause in the conversation. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Crowd-slaying 101.

 

[Architect]

Acerbically dry and intellectually sharp. My wife describes my humor as wicked.

 

[DetachedRetina]

Went to the store yesterday to get batteries. The girl accidentally rang them up twice.

Me: "They're double-A not double-pay."

Her: "Oh I'm sorry sir."

I think the joke flopped because of inflection. I should practice inflecting. They say laughter is inflectious. Maybe it just wasn't at all funny though.

 

[Czech Yes or No]

Went to the store yesterday to get batteries. The girl accidentally rang them up twice.

Me: "They're double-A not double-pay."

Her: "Oh I'm sorry sir."

I think the joke flopped because of inflection. I should practice inflecting. They say laughter is inflectious. Maybe it just wasn't at all funny though.

She might not have gotten it, but that was an awesome joke.

 

[C.J_Finn]

Went to the store yesterday to get batteries. The girl accidentally rang them up twice.

Me: "They're double-A not double-pay."

Her: "Oh I'm sorry sir."

I think the joke flopped because of inflection. I should practice inflecting. They say laughter is inflectious. Maybe it just wasn't at all funny though.

I enjoyed that joke.


I really enjoy telling jokes based around word-play. I also enjoy making witty comments/observations about things that people say/do. That normally gets me a few laughs. I tend to fail at normal jokes though. Last time I told a "normal" joke it ended up being:

A man walks into a bar.

The universe implodes under the weight of all the possible punch lines.

 

[Jennywocky]

She might not have gotten it, but that was an awesome joke.

Yes, cute... especially off the cuff. I love it when things set themselves up like that. I almost start laughing before making the joke.

A man walks into a bar.

lol. Not just imagining what the punchlines could be, but just stopping right there when they're expecting more.

I'm very fond of the anti-joke.

 

[C.J_Finn]

Yes, cute... especially off the cuff. I love it when things set themselves up like that. I almost start laughing before making the joke.



lol. Not just imagining what the punchlines could be, but just stopping right there when they're expecting more.

I'm very fond of the anti-joke.

The anti-joke is one of my favorite forms of humor. Problem with it is when I do the "A man walks into a bar joke" and I end it with "he got a concussion" or the one about the universe imploding I tend to get blank stares. It's a shame that more people don't share my sense of humor.

 

[DetachedRetina]

haha I thought the universe imploding bit was pretty good

 

[Philosophyking87]

I'm slightly humorous, but by no means a gifted comedian.
At the very least, I'm not the guy who never goofs or jokes around.
I like to make playful jokes out of life's many minor situations.

 

[PapyrusAirplanes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYJoNf5CnGc

Most people just laugh at the song itself. But I love the silent dancing black man and the woman wrapped in an afghan and the piano solo. And also all the "-ello" rhymes.

Other than that, hyperbole and irony are probably what get me most. And just weird things. Like the lady who came to the farm market with five standard poodles in her car. What a woman.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Went to the store yesterday to get batteries. The girl accidentally rang them up twice.

Me: "They're double-A not double-pay."

Her: "Oh I'm sorry sir."

I think the joke flopped because of inflection. I should practice inflecting. They say laughter is inflectious. Maybe it just wasn't at all funny though.

It was probably because the joke was condescending.

Spoiler

Or maybe it flopped because she was too exhausted by all the other customers.

 

[DetachedRetina]

That's how she took it anyways. I wasn't trying to be, just saw the rhyme and blurted it out. I guess I should consider feelings more. I would have stopped myself if they were triple-A batteries because the logic of the joke would have vanished. But I didn't consider for a second my audience.

 

[C.J_Finn]

haha I thought the universe imploding bit was pretty good

Yeah, it's one of my favorite jokes. I actually heard it from a friend from England and when he told me I laughed for a minute or two.


Edit:

I think it might have either been that the cashier was exhausted from dealing with customers or that she's just one of those people that doesn't get word jokes. There seems to be a lot of people that don't get those. I actually showed someone the Airplane Safety skit by George Carlin and they didn't get the joke about getting on the plane.

 

[Peripheral Visionary]

That's how she took it anyways. I wasn't trying to be, just saw the rhyme and blurted it out. I guess I should consider feelings more. I would have stopped myself if they were triple-A batteries because the logic of the joke would have vanished. But I didn't consider for a second my audience.

I would bet that at the end of the day, when she thought about it, she laughed her ass off.

Speaking of anti-jokes....

Why did the little girl fall out of the swing?

She had no arms.

 

[Co60]

Dry acerbic (even cruel) wit for me, too. Monty Python was my favourite TV show growing up, 'Life of Brian' still makes me laugh until I get asthma, and the funniest thing on UK TV at the moment is 'Peep Show'. In my view at least.

 

[speiss]

Not an INTP (but hey, use this for ENFP research reasons, and compare and contrast and what have you).
My humour tends to be pretty silly. I don't even know!
It ranges from dry sarcasm to laying in the middle of the street or dancing or something.
Kinda just depends on what the person with me would think is funny ^_^ Which is terrible, as your company shouldn't influence your brand of humour, but I don't really have any restrictions, I don't think.
At least, I haven't been monitoring exactly what I do to make people (and myself) laugh!

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Spoiler

Or maybe it flopped because she was too exhausted by all the other customers.

This was humor, by the way.

 

[DetachedRetina]

This was humor, by the way.

Wow, I didn't even see the spoiler box before, haha.

 

[DetachedRetina]

I would bet that at the end of the day, when she thought about it, she laughed her ass off.

Speaking of anti-jokes....

Why did the little girl fall out of the swing?

She had no arms.

Baahhahahah

 

[Hadoblado]

My particular brand of humour lies in overt creative exaggeration, with heavy influence on inflection. When an event occurs, me and my friends have some unspoken competition as to who can exaggerate it the most. It's the same principle as 'yo mumma so fat' jokes, but applied to any even vaguely peculiar events.
It often result in back stabbing bitchery, but the intent is really to be creative rather than to harm the victim.

 

[Teohrn]

I usually make some sporadic ironic comments or I make some observations when I'm in a crowd, which usually makes people laugh. However, I'm not a person who can take the attention of the whole crowd and make everyone laugh, especially continuously; I like to sit back, listen, make the comments and observations (in almost any type of setting) for comic relief.

I often also do some hard to notice and weird things to see if anyone notices, I also say things that are contradicting, illogical or fallacious in some way to see if anyone notices. People rarely understand and find that funny. I can only think of one person who does understand it and find it funny and he's probably an INTP. Sensors and feelers are the least suspectible to understand it.

 

[Sigma Octantis]

well, as for me...

my sense of humour is rather cynical. im quite sarcastic and people often find my sense of homour satirical.

i also do love some puns for some weird reason, idk why.

its funny to think that someone like me whos level of intelligence, sense of humour and what not can be reduced to something as little as a pun.

sometimes, i even like the "knock knock... who's there? lettuce! lettuce who? LETTUCE IN!".

i find them stupid but ofc, i still chuckle at it hahahha!

 

[MizKodomo]

Dark, and fairly self deprecating because I can take myself too seriously sometimes. I've also been told I can be quite cruel, and my jokes don't seem like jokes. I also appreciate puns.
This may have been shared already, but it deserves to be shared.
http://komplexify.com/math/humor_blue/DoItJokes.html
I don't get most of them, since I'm not a mathematician by any means, but most stand proudly on their own.

*gross sobbing* Slap happy and LOL!Cat makes me a terrible neighbor...

 

[WordsOfWisdom]

I've been told I have a dry sense of humor as well. Most of my jokes are sarcastic stabs at people. I am a fan of puns, but only when they're good. And depending on my enthusiasm, I'm fairly decent at telling the "this one time" jokes that someone mentioned.

 

[DetachedRetina]

Dry humor, wordplay, absurdism, sarcasm, and dark comedy keep coming up in this thread.

What other types of humor are there. Is there a list somewhere of types of humor? I've only found some cheesy simplistic articles doing a primitive google search.

I've been really interested lately in what it is that makes something funny.

 

[WARchitect]

I like this guy humor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP_1GuoRVbU

Absurd, crazy, natural, improvisation, often politically-incorrect and sometimes seems like he is alone in the studio talking to himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=Szc4GQjzEHY&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L5_nIcbkrU&feature=endscreen&NR=1