THE FUNNIEST THING IN THE WORLD

Anyone else have memories of formative experiences for your sense of humor?

A history of your sense of humor, birth to present

Huh, that's a pretty recent thread.

I can't remember mine, but:

Back when Alice was just about 18 months old, we'd gone down to Cornwall for a holiday. There was a big "Alice in Wonderland" exhibit at the Minack theatre. I'm looking at part of it, when she goes up and says "Oh look! 'a' 'l' 'i' 'cuh' 'e' !

Me: "And what does that spell?"
her: "I dunno!"

(in that tune that says "I'm eighteen months old! You aren't expecting me to be able to read are you?"

my lil duder was two years and change when he took him on the subway one weekend.

he started fake sneezing going "ahh-choo, ahh-choo, a choo choo train", then started laughing maniacally. then i realized that's likely the first joke he's ever made.

Amber's first:

"If you call a dog that rounds up sheep a sheepdog, if you got a dog to round up other dogs, would that be a Dogdog?"

See, bypassing the rule of three, at three.

My kid sister's first joke was "why did the chicken cross the road and then climb a tree and sit in the tree?" (barely contained look of glee), when I replied that I didn't know she looked triumphant "because the chicken WANTED to cross the road and climb a tree and sit in the tree." She then ran off cackling.

Mark, your daughter knew her letters at 18 mths?? Is this normal?

This is Alice we're talking about.

I believe she learned only the letters in her own name, purely to zing me when the timing was right.

Awesome!

I read a lot of humor books (dewey decimal 818.54) as a kid, and Patrick McManus (Rocky Mountain hunting/camping funnies writer) was my favorite. I'd force my brother to let me read my favorite passages to him. My favorite was about the young author fishing without a license with this grubby older man who featured in a lot of his stories. Just as grubby old man catches a BIG ONE for the first time in a long time, a ranger appears out of nowhere, so he shoves the flopping fish into a shirt. He tells the ranger it's a banana right before it tumbles out of his shirt. What do you know?" he says, "This here banana turned into a fishie!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh man the room was choked with roffles. We can STILL crack each other up saying this to each other 16 years down the road.

My friend's 5 yr old kid told me this funniest joke at a party:

"Why is it called a board game?"

"Why?"

"Because it's BOOORING! AHAHAHA!"

My brother made a fucking GREAT joke when he was five about how offices shouldn't buy fake trees because the world does not need fake oxygen.

that's a good one.

My complaint is that the advertisement is done in the Chinese military propaganda style of Mao and the Red
Army; and that the ad subtly, subliminally suggests to me that we should be thankful for a military
take-over of Australia by the Peoples Liberation Army. In the light of ex-Canberra Chinese
government embassy diplomat Chen Yonglins claim (Chen currently being on the run in Australia
from Chinese government hitmen) that there are over 1,000 Chinese government spies in Australia
and the fact that in past decades Chinese government school maps have shown Australia as a place
to be renamed "New South China".

Perhaps the largest genocide in the history of the world to date was caused by Mao Tse Tung,
using images made popular by him to oppress an entire generation of Chinese is morally disguting.
Identifying a stir fry sauce with the death by starvation of millions of Chinese workers is
reprehensible to the highest degree. Subjecting Australians, unknowingly, to propaganda from one
of the worst regimes in history is deplorable.

what was the punchline?

yo mama

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/5a/7b/09ad7220eca0ee2720bf9010._AA240_.L.jpg

Whenever I recall its existence, I'm fairly convinced that it's this.

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

And then I rewatch it and confirm that, yes, it's this.