Comedy

[Sherlock77]

I can enjoy a good comedy movie or TV show, but I don't care much for standup comedy

I have lots of experience with photographing stage performance and enjoy both poetry readings and live music... A few years back I was asked to fill in for a friend to photograph a couple of comedy shows, it was my first experience of it, and I still have no real desire to get into that world much

People tell me that I rarely laugh, and I rarely smile as well...

 

[SusanLR]

There were a few stand up comics when I was young that said things I would laugh out loud at.
Examples like Red Skeleton, Benny Hill, Steve Martin, Red Foxx.
The absurdly silly.

There were only a few old sitcoms I liked.
Seems I don't care for the modern stuff.

I think there is a sort of herd contagion in a group of people all laughing at everything in person.
I don't feel it, but, like mass hysteria, it's there.
Only certain things strike me as truly funny and I don't laugh much.
A lot of times I don't get the meaning either.

 

[Catherine Read]

Surreal, absurdist and slapstick humour was a big part of my growing up, and for a laugh I still refer to the stuff I watched growing up that would have me in stitches laughing. I tend to refer to the alternative comedy of the 80's and 90's including members of The Comic Strip (i.e. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle and Robbie Coltrane). I used to howl at the antics of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, and for stand-up would mostly listen to alternative comedians such as Jo Brand, Julian Clary or Lilly Savage, and that was when I was a kid! I don't listen to much stand-up outside of a few I know I like. Jasper Carrott was another one I remember watching regularly, I'd also watch anything with Rowan Atkinson, Harry Enfield or Kathy Burke. Dame Edna Everage was hilarious and there's a few shows that always had me laughing like The League of Gentlemen (or anything by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton for that matter), Red Dwarf, Fry and Laurie, and a number of shows by comedians I've already mentioned. When it comes to anything new, if it's too predictable I don't tend to laugh, I think I like stuff that really catches me off-guard which is probably why I tend to gravitate towards surreal humour.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Yeah. Sometimes I sort of just stare blankly when someone says something funny. Even if I am laughing on the inside.

But other times I crack up.

 

[Giant Hogweed]

Few comics are funny, but if someone falls over (without hurting themselves) it usually triggers a smile.
However, Laurel & Hardy make me smile a lot. Especially the one where they are in a haunted house. I like old school.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I never liked comedy much most notably American comedy, always geared to the lowest common denominator, too juvenile for me.