Don’t know if this is unpopular or not, but I think people whose main method of humor involves human genitalia, incest jokes, dirty and dark humor, doesn’t equate to you being funny.
Yes a little bit can be funny given the right context and audience, but if every second you have the opportunity to, you make a joke about genitalia, sex acts, etc, then you’re not actually funny.
The “that’s what she said” sort of humor doesn’t count, I’m talking about people who make jokes about balls, sucking d, genitalia innuendos, incest jokes, etc. if that’s all you can joke about- you’re not funny.
No I’m not overly sensitive, I often laugh at dirty/dark humor, but there’s such a thing called timing, tact, and beating a dead horse.
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I think most people would agree that it’s not the only requirement to being funny.
But you’re being quite vague. At what point is crass humor not funny? Do you have any examples of comedians, movies, or series that go over the line?
Crude humor can be hilarious, as you well know. Of course there is a limit, most people would agree that not everything crude is funny, so where is your limit?
Don’t let anyone tell you “The Aristocrats” joke 😄
That’s what she said
If your jokes are good but crass you still have good humor, the subject doesn’t degrade the humor.
Constant crude jokes get old and feel lazy. Humor needs timing and the right audience.
Innuendo? In your endo!
I’ve got a pretty crude sense of humor, but I agree. It takes more than that to be funny.
And that, my friends, is the Aristocrat himself.
Absolutely agree. Humor has range and relying only on shock or crude jokes gets old fast. A well timed dark or dirty joke can hit sure but when thats all someone brings to the table it starts feeling more lazy than funny. Comedy is about creativity not just being loud or inappropriate for the sake of it.
Knowing your audience, some comedians have built successful for crude, dark, and otherwise edgy material because there’s an audience for it. The line between what is funny and what isn’t varies from person to person and situation to situation as well. I’d say someone isn’t funny if they keep falling back on the same joke for jokes they’ve heard from someone else but it’s not a hard and fast or anything.
I can’t remember which comedian did a skit that involved something about his wife giving him blowjobs and him coming on her face. He did all the usual gestures…I didn’t find it offensive, comedy is comedy. It’s just boring.
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Sorry this is not unpopular, there is obviously way more to being a good stand up than just saying crude shit but if done well it’s funny, see Eddie Murphy Delirious for example.
WRONG.