Best Humour

[MillsJROSS]

I like diffrent kinds of humour at diffrent points, but I favor puny humor. Dark comedies are also among my favorite. Theres just something about a movie riddled with irony.

-MillsJROSS

[Captain Mostly]

I bought JAM on DVD this week. Nothing on TV has been as funny for years. Utterly brilliantly hilarious (although by no means perfect, and a touch hit-and-miss).

[DGMacphee]

Neil Simon had a technique for writing his comedies.

If he thinks of something that makes him laugh out loud, he'd write it down.

I think that's how I came up with the jokes in my games.

Stickmen was created partially out of the joke I used at the end of the game: "We're both naked!" "Not me! I have a hat!"

For some reason, whereever I thought of that, I would laugh out loud and gain strange looks from people around me.

The game grew from there.

Same with Ultimeer and the Pimp of Persia scene -- but most of the jokes from Ultimerr I thought of in the shower, so no strange looks when I'd laugh out loud.

[Bluke4x4]

My humor is mixed:
Satire,
Morbid,
Parody,
Absurdity,
Incredibly Corny,
And Funny Names on Graves, Like Hoc A. Loogie.

No wonder:
My two favorite shows are Rocko's Modern Life and Monty Python.

[Ben]

DG and Scid are definitely right. I hate using jokes in my games that don't make me laugh out loud. And I think my best humor is pullled out of my ass. There's just something about sponteneous humor that makes it funnier than anything fabricated.

I like any style of humor, as long as it's done well. And I think it's important to remember that not all good humor has to make you laugh out loud. Just look at the Peanuts cartoons. Most of Schulz's jokes don't make me laugh out loud, but I still love that comic.. Maybe it's not really humor though.. I think Peanuts has more of an emotional appeal than anything else.

Back to serious humor now . Absurdist/Surrealist humor (whatever you cheese to call it) is always funny. That's a good example where spontaneous humor works best. When you watch almost any Monty Python sketch, it really doesn't appear that a great deal of thought went into writing it. That's why it's good.. We can't explain why it's funny, and if we figured it out it probably wouldn't be funny anymore.

I was going to write a lot more, but I can't think at the moment. Too many paint fumes..

[12431]

that also depends on my mood. south park, simpson and futurama when i'm neutral, absolutely fabulous, monty pyton and monkey island style humor when I'm happy.

[petaglair]

I don't like humour because i think it's stupid

[Shattered Sponge]

I bought JAM on DVD this week. Nothing on TV has been as funny for years. Utterly brilliantly hilarious (although by no means perfect, and a touch hit-and-miss).

Oh, absolutely - for all it's flaws, Jam is probably my favourite sketch show of all time, because of it's sheer originality, and the ability it has to horrify you and make you laugh at the same time (the sketch where the woman calls the plumber round to fix her baby, especially).
 I remember when Channel 4 used to show the uncut version at about 1 AM, I always used to wake up the next morning and wonder just how much of it I dreamed.

[gonzalezj]

My inspirations:
Simpsons
Calvin and Hobbes
Garfield
Get Fuzzy
Classic Lucas Adventure
Seinfield

My Two Favorite inspirations:

Married with Children
Ren and Stimpy

I also try to look for humour everywhere, especially in my job because it helps the day pass.