+130 The funniest humor is the kind that is actually woven into context, when nobody is expecting something funny to be said, rather than an actual joke, when everybody sees something funny coming, Amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm only not agreeing because this sounds like trying to make humour objective. But I agree that the thing your describing is indeed funny.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

oh yeah, i suppose i did leave out unintentional humor (thanks for clarifying it). i should have specified that the post applied to objective humor. i'm not sure whether to say that you're a really strict evaluator or that you give really good feedback. i guess its both

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What I mean is...humour is not objective, meaning that no one thing is absolutely funnier than anything else. But the way it's phrased makes it sound like you're trying to make an objective statement about humour...I know this is an opinion site, but when you brush on things like humour, and you say "the funniest thing..." it's very hard to agree since one man's hilarious is another man's boring-as-fuck

by Anonymous 11 years ago

oh, i thought you meant objective as in "intended". yeah, i meant that if the same punch line were compared with the same delivery, to the same audience, in the same voice/tone, and all other factors standardized, it would be most often get a better reaction when woven into context and unexpected, than when the context is artificially set up as an intended and anticipated joke. i understand your point though, i didn't mean to imply that all unexpected jokes are funnier than all "artificially set up" jokes

by Anonymous 11 years ago