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Originally Posted by where I want to (Post 7412015)

My favorite jokes are the ones where the story encourages assumptions then takes a sharp turn away from them. One of my favorites was the Coldwater joke someone told here. Always gets a spontaneous laugh from me, mostly because it is a laugh at myself for so blindly following the line.
Then I used to love Car Talk, where the brothers ragged on each other but clearly had a lot of affection even in their jokes. Even the ones where someone would call and started off with a girl friend, wife, boy friend, husband disgreed with them and they routinely interrupted with "There's your trouble right there" joke. It was done in a manner of comradeship rather than put down.
My most memorable out-of-sync moment was when a friend took me to a Terminator movie. It was the scene where the kid told the Terminator not to kill the guards so he just shot their knees off. People were roaring at the guards hopping on one leg or writhing on the ground while my jaw just dropped in amazement that anyone found it funny.

Terminator shooting off kneecaps wasn't nearly as funny as the knight in Monty Pythons Holy Grail getting whacked down to only his torso and still proclaiming it was "just a flesh wound!".

Humor is very subjective.

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Originally Posted by MO_cows (Post 7412125)

Now I found the Monty Python Black Knight scene funny. But that was because the Knight had the laughs, not the Crusaders doing the injury reluctantly, and it was a clever parody of stoic ideals. And the most foolish pursuit of martial values. And totally unreal. OK - so we'll call it a draw.

In the land of make believe, we laugh at the stupid (Dumb and Dumber), inept (Gilligan), socially awkward (Big Bang Theory), angry (Anger Mgmt), drunk (Bad Santa), stoned (every Cheech and Chong movie), depressed (One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest), disabled (Edward Scissorhands), foreigners & speakers of other languages (Borat), disasters (Airplane), teenaged prostitution (Risky Business), sexual harassment (every episode of Benny Hill) and all sorts of people and situations where in real life, none of that would be even close to being funny.

I guess those of us who laughed at the OP are not gullible enough to think it was real, so we can laugh at the absurdity.

BTW - I hated some of those movies and TV shows, some I laughed at so much I couldn't wait to show them to my DD when she got old enough to appreciate them, like Holy Grail and Airplane.

It was easy to tell this was a joke. Who, seriously, has only ONE key to their car?????

Well, if you don't think something was funny, why should you know it was a joke?