Personality and humor

[FusionKnight]

So, do INTPs like the same kinds of humor?

I like Monty Python, Douglas Adams, P.G. Wodehouse, Napoleon Dynamite, Sealab 2021, Mystery Science Theater: 3000, XKCD, and the Zombie Thread...

Does this sound familiar?

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I think humor is derived as much from past experiences as from personality types. Perhaps more.

While I love everything Monty Python, some of the others (what few I am familiar with) not so much. Napoleon Dynamite was okay. Maybe I should see it with other people. MST 3000 I did not like at all.

I have a tendency to lean towards humor that others might find offensive. I don't mean crude "toilet" humor but the kind that attacks one's sensibilities. Especially my own. That's a general statement. I guess I have to say I laugh at South Park as much as anything although sometimes it just seems dumb to me. There are several threads here I look forward to reading like Kill the Last Poster or Corrupt a Wish.

 

[FusionKnight]

Very interesting. I tend not to enjoy humor that is too crass, crude, or is malicious mockery. I also tend not to like really "base" humor like Dumb and Dumber, or Chevy Chase movies, etc.

I do love the Corrupt-a-Wish thread, but not so much the Kill-the-Last-Poster thread.

 

[NoID10ts]

I'm sure it will be absolutely shocking to hear that I have a very dark and twisted sense of humor. I love all things Python and Douglas Adams. I also thought Napolean Dynamite was funny in a sublime kind of way. I think "Shaun of the Dead" is an absolute scream. I also found "Fight Club" very funny.

For TV, I love Seinfeld, Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons, Spaced and I liked Titus (although it was short lived).

I don't like toilet humor and I also don't really like these teen sex comedies. I just don't relate very well. I don't walk around farting at people and my sole purpose in high school was not to bed some ignorant cheer leader.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Dumb and Dumber was exactly that. It might as well been a Three Stooges marathon for all it had to offer. Which was nothing. I never understood why Chevy Chase was considered funny either.

I like humor to be controversial. Like Carlin was sometimes. I like it when someone takes one of my or other's commonly held preconceptions and turns it on it's ear. If it attacks the conventions of society, I love it.

 

[EloquentBohemian]

Monty Python. Six Trickster figures together. I'm pretty sure I can quote Holy Grail verbatim by now.
George Carlin. Wit, humor and intelligence. And irreverance.
Lenny Bruce.
Douglas Adams.
There's probably more, but they're in the back of my mind and I'm in the front.

Oh yeah, and I look forward to the Corrupt-a-wish thread.

 

[Ermine]

I love Monty Python!! However, Napoleon Dynamite was only funny to me because it was a parody on my mom's rural Idaho upbringing. I like irreverent, random, and provoking humor. That and Catch-22-esque humor that makes serious subjects sound ludicrous.

Give me a shrubbery! NOW!

 

[Artifice Orisit]

I agree with almost all of this; however I do have distaste for "dumb" humour. I gain very little amusement from people acting stupid for the sheer sake of stupidity. Jackass and the Dudesons don't count because they hurt themselves; good comedy is built on hard work or pain.

NoID10ts is ranked high on my funny list.

 

[kaririloto]

Monty Python was and is one of the foundations of my childhood.

I adore misanthropic comedians.

I sometimes watch movies with "intelligent humor" that no one understands.

Teenager sex comedies just don't make me laugh. I sit there and go "Okay, wow, he just used a PIE for...--she just--that's it, I'm turning it off."

I just can't relate.

I think George Carlin was brilliant, and much of what he said was funny and true.

Napoleon Dynamite...it was funny the FIRST time I saw it.

 

[FusionKnight]

Napoleon Dynamite...it was funny the FIRST time I saw it.

See, it just gets funnier the more times I see it. It's like reliving my childhood with the trapper keepers, zubas, action figures, drawings of magical creatures...

I probably shouldn't have just admitted that...

 

[Agent Intellect]

Fight Club obviously was very funny (and very serious at the same time) to me. thats certainly my type of humor.

as for TV shows that i find funny, i've always liked Arrested Development, Its Always Sunny in Philedelphia, Seinfeld, House, Family Guy, Simpsons, South Park (occasionally when they do a satirical episode), Futurama, Daily Show/Colbert Report.

edit- Carlin is a hilarious comedian. also love lewis black and daniel tosh

as for me personally, i have a very dark, cynical sense of humor that can probably be pretty disgusting or offensive at times. i certainly have a very large threshold for disgusting or mean spirited humor directed at me. of course, i'm sure a lot of that is upbringing. in my (usually small) social circles, one-upping and cutting each other down was always the preferred humor.

and on a side note, i absolutely despised napolean dynamite. i really can't understand why anyone thinks its funny.

 

[Chimera]

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Hmm. . .
My sense of humor is pretty abstract. Sometimes things will trigger it that make no sense at all, and then I'll be laughing really hard for a reason I can't even remember.
I love humor that revolves around irony or weird connections that make perfect sense.
And voices/sound effects. God, I love voices.
I do tend to make "offensive" jokes sometimes too--but only in the right crowd.
Tearing people down used to be my favourite hobby, but people are too sensitive.
It's rare that I think sarcasm is exceptionally amusing, since more than three-fourths of my speech consists of it. ​

My favourite comedian is Jim Gaffigan. Close behind is Demetri Martin, and I like the little bit of Dane Cook I've heard. And there was one other...I can't really remember his name...I think it was Bill Engval or something like that. ​

Monty Python is a classic. The Ministry of Silly Walks gets me every time.
Shaun of the Dead is a favourite.
The shows Doctor Who and House have in fact made me rofl. ​

Napoleon Dynamite was stupid the first time I saw it, funny the second and third time, and now I groan whenever it's on. People have used the jokes over and over again and it's quite sickening now, honestly. ​

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