What makes you laugh?

[LibraryLover]

I found myself laughing today at all kinds of crazy. I had a whole day to myself to watch Netflix and I had the best time.

[woolybear]

 

 

Please share some of what made you laugh.

 

The Full Monty always cracks me up, too.

[sarahbobeara]

People falling down, pets doing goofy things, crotch shots...pretty much any and all of America's Funniest Video's clips :tongue_smilie: Season 19 is on Netflix streaming, we've been laughing lots lately!

[eternalknot]

 

That always makes me laugh. I fly a lot, and ... yeah, it just makes me laugh :D

[Jenny in Florida]

I tend to favor absurdity in my humor, and I don't tend to like anything mean-spirited or that encourages us to laugh at people or animals in pain.

 

I have recently started listening to the Dinner Party Downloan from NPR. They do an "icebreaker" at the beginning of each show and did one show that was one joke after another. I had to keep stopping the recordning, because I was either laughing too hard to hear or had to go share a joke with my family.

 

For example: A man walks into a chiropractor's office late one night saying, "Doctor, you have to help me! I think I'm a moth!"

 

The chiropractor says, "Sir, I think what you need is a psychiatrist."

 

The man answers, "I know, but your light was on."

 

Here's a link to the episode I was listening to, by the way: http://www.publicradio.org/columns/dinnerpartydownload/2011/08/episode-109-the-2nd-annual-icebreaker-show.html

[kalanamak]

The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper, and Twain in general.

 

I also love doing little sly things in public and watching peoples reaction. Harmless but unexpected. (E.g. when my son was five I was in Half-Price books and he had insisted in bringing in his coat even through I warned him I was NOT going to hold it while he looked at books. He tried to pull a fast one by getting a wobbly lower lip and holding out his coat to me. Then he cried (this was NEW behavior). I decided to nip it in the bud by NOT giving an inch. We were at the sales table and the crew were college student types. I looked down at kiddo, while they all unpacked my books, and said seriously: "My, my, all this over a coat! What will you do when you face a real problem, like an unplanned pregnancy?" The students lost it with laughter. Kiddo quit crying and joined it. It was just so unexpected.)

 

The funniest things in life have been, for me, what other people do/say. When I was 12 I was on a freighter and our waiter was hacked to death in his sleep. Many of the 11 passengers got roaring drunk in response. One "blue rinse crowd" lady I'd talked to some, and had told her about the kirsch cake I'd had for my 9th birthday, came up to me, very tipsy, and breathed, cocktail glass in hand: "Kirsch cake and murder by 12 -- what's left for you, honey?" I swear I'll be cackling over that on my deathbed.

Or when the PM of Australia was eaten by shark (Holt) and some speculated it was staged, and that he'd run away to China. His son said that was ridiculous because his father hated Chinese food. I think I almost wet my pants, rolling on the floor and screaming over that one (I was 9).

[AuntieM]

Owen Wilson. I really can't explain it....