The Tyranny of Humour

a friend of mine once ran into (and I mean ran) a glass door. I will never regret laughing. (he ended up fine.)

― ryan, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 22:31 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What socioracialdemographic did he belong to

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 22:42 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Avian-American, sounds like

― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 22:49 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was solidly tyrannical

walked into a glass door in the old virgin megastore on oxford street in london and left a remarkably distinctr fogged up outline of my face on the glass. somehow no one else seemed to see me do this but I had to laugh out loud anyway. the inwards punch is the most noble of all imo

Truly

I feel like I use humor a lot, but I'm incapable of smiling or laughing at my own joke after delivery

this means you're a pro

ya rly. It takes all the muscles in your body not to do that. Once you master it, people end up not realising you're joking and you end up having to explain you're joking and it ruins years of training.

the good comedian, like the magician, never doth revealeth his secrets

a subtle cue from or a word to the wise is sufficient to exchange a hidden element

http://i.imgur.com/1BGuWoK.jpg

the moment that stand-up comedy is having is indicative of the degeneration and banality of our culture

I realized why I occasionally laugh at my own jokes is because I don't always realize whether they're going to be funny to me
I need to plan better

sometimes I forget to change stations when some desperately unfunny smug/witless R4 comedy comes on. I guess bad comedy is a different type of tyranny than what this thread was intended for. But I feel like it must be some kind of joyless imitative crowd behaviour tyranny, when a live audience is laughing out loud at such dross.

I thought the recent Frankie Boyle's New World Order ep was one of the best responses to Grenfell I have seen on the bbc. Obv that is a very low bar, and there isn't any humour to be derived from the needless corporate manslaughter of 100s of people. But it was the only response on the bbc I've seen so far that wasn't either N Robinson style apologist propaganda or insincere po-faced fakery.

https://slate.com/arts/2017/07/trump-and-his-trolls-arent-killing-comedy-theyre-saving-it.html

Fuck me that needs editing down to

Baudelaire, in his treatise on laughter, makes a distinction between “significative comedy,” which you recognize by its carefully expressed “moral idea,” and “absolute comedy,” which you recognize because you are laughing.

lol yes everything else is commentary

The best of it is the treatment of the Lenny Bruce era et al school of comedy as having an inherent sociopolitical bias which is of course what this thread is really about, ilxors reaction against this being proven time and time again as a fallacy

Mike Birbiglia's success is evidence of how dire the comedy circuit is these days

aw, he's funny, calm down

the tyranny of scatological humour

Just don't look

kind of want to start a thread about differing senses of humour, but this thread will do

obviously a thinly-veiled continuation of my attack on ilx - 'the tyranny of lame humour' - excelsior tariff lower than ever, genuine waspish wit or ingenuity at an all-time retreat, j'accuse

or has this always been cuddlestein mountain

Im more interested in the humour of tyranny these days tbh

Lol nothing matters

Straight talk from someone at the end of a 93 hour day

if ILX isn’t funny enough, you have to be be funnier

that's like asking someone to tell a joke though

"be funny!"

"um uh yes okay have you heard the one about the uh two lizards in a barrel"

they got so drunk they performed mutual autotomy!

thank you i do weddings

thank God we’re already married

What a revelation

^this is the stuff

one of the cruelest parts of childhood was my sister - seconds after i had declared that my life ambition was to be a stand-up comedian - daring me to make her laugh and never laughing ever again. i fucking HATE when people do that!

but it taught me an important lesson: you can never ask laugh. seriously - you have to do it yourself

94/7

eliane radigue's trilogie de la mort fucking did the trick, that's a great ambient experience. binaural. might go walk in the neighborhood and freak some dogs out this morning!

Dogs can be pretty funny. I'm a big fan (and my family hates me for) Kids Write Jokes, which can be hit or miss but often errs on the side of perfectly surreal. My favorite recent joke was "what's black and white and is a panda?" That's the entire joke.

i guess we've also reached a sort of humour singularity, where (for example) AI Weirdness is funnier than most human humour

I read that as "Al Weirdness" like it was the formal name on "Weird" Al's driver's license.

i honestly feel like i'm ready for the new era of humor. i don't know what that is yet, but i'm ready to be ruled

Are you ready to laugh?

FUCKING OD ME WITH FUNNY

cue: the cold war!

I think "humour" has come to stand in for "things that use the techniques of humour" rather than "things that are actually funny and make you laugh".

Like, I am pro-laughing but anti-"humour"

I'm not sure where "twats who find everything hilarious" fit into this theory, though

at the end of a long day and a long night, i only believe in the four humors, and i would prefer a good balance between them

Some really funny stuff on twitter.com ime

On some days the John Cage-ification of the oldest joke in the world is preferable to the dazzling Tyranny of Cenacle Wit.

If i started a thread about it being good to be able to laugh i doubt the tenor of responses would be any different so im glad i havent tbh

listen, i feel like everyone is afraid of something: being asked to make everyone else laugh. everyone is asking everyone else to laugh, and everyone is feeling all the feelings all about it.

but i will do what no one else has ever done, infinitely, before: i will not ask anyone to make me laugh, ever

https://i.insider.com/554786186bb3f78f7d33ba2f?width=1200&format=jpeg

The fart song thread was good for a few cheap laffs and I'd moved on days ago but now I'm feeling strangely compelled to make sure that thing gets bumped to the top of SNA in perpetuity.