What things have formed your sense if humour?

[sean miguel]

Assuming you have one of course. I'd have to say my dad. He was always a jokester when I was growing up and he got me into watching SNL which was also a huge influence and their alumni in movies. The Blues Brothers pretty much sums up my brand of humour and Conan O'Brien.

Cool story.

Edit: I'm fully aware I'm spelling humour with a U and I messed up the subject line. It's Swype on my phone's fault.

 

[luis1972]

My family

 

[assari]

Laurel and Hardy.

They were the best in the field of humor imho.

 

[xfire]

Looney Tunes and The Three Stooges first and foremost, M*A*S*H, Patrick McManus, Bill Waterson, Berkeley Breathed (obviously), Dan Piraro, Gary Larson, and like you, Conan O'Brien and SNL. Lots of others, too. Nice topic, Ani.

 

[dpantski]

That would be an ecumenical matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptd_h0dF7NE

 

[Elwood70]

Damn..this is a good topic.

In the beginning:

Looney Tunes, Berkeley Breathed, M*A*S*H (TV Show)

Later, but not quite "old enough" to watch, but I did any-fucking-way:

Johnny Carson and Saturday Night Live . I'm pretty sure Dan Aykroyd/Elwood Blues is a kindred spirit.

I was exposed to a lot of things before I "should" have been.


Later still, Scorsese and Tarantino...this is when I started to laugh at things that weren't "supposed to" be funny.


Special credit goes to David Letterman. I'm a little behind what was his target audience at the time of his NBC show, but as noted earlier, I watched him anyway. In fact, if I had to pick only one influence, I'd say it was either Letterman or Richard Pryor.

Those are the people, and one of the things was watching how my mom handled death. Specifically, her sense of humor about it....I think it's called "Gallows' humor".


Oh, and Keith Richards, but I figured that went without saying....

 

[Rey C.]

According to my mother, I watched WAY too much Bugs Bunny as a child. Somehow, I turned into a human version of that cotton-tailed smart ass as I grew older.... except that I've never worn a dress (obligatory: "not that there's anything wrong with that.")

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Suffering, Anguish, and Poop.

 

[Johan]

Many things, many people : Family, comedians, comics, movies, TV Shows, friends...

But I don't think anyone's humor is ever totally formed. I think someone's humor is perpetualy changing, getting inspire, sometimes inconsciously buy what we exoerience in life, what we see what we hear, what we do, etc...

 

[Death-Proof-69]

early in my life certainly my family and then my friends when school started...since then it's been warped and twisted by a variety of life experiences and rough situations on top of the fucked up shit i end up coming across on the internet. i still find humor in the simple things and harmless comedy but i can definitely feel my general sense of humor darkening..i'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not, at this point i just find myself needing to watch my comments more to avoid offending people...if i'm lucky enough to live a long time i can definitely see myself being one of those inappropriate, offensive and crude old fucks that causes people to pretend they don't know me in public

 

[xfire]

I forgot to mention politics, you've got to keep a sense of humor about politics and find some levity in the quagmire. Again, great topic, shame more people aren't participating!

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Looney Tunes and The Three Stooges first and foremost, M*A*S*H, Patrick McManus, Bill Waterson, Berkeley Breathed (obviously), Dan Piraro, Gary Larson, and like you, Conan O'Brien and SNL. Lots of others, too. Nice topic, Ani.

Much of this, plus Benny Hill, and a long list of people, that are the poster children for stupidity, ineptitude, arrogance, and incompetence. The people you deal with every day at work, in everyday life, that quite frankly, give me a sharp pain that shoots through my eyeballs, but you have to laugh at, because as fucked up as they are...the next guy coming down the road, is a little worse.

Oh, and Calvin and Hobbs.