Not all humor is funny
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
United States
March 18, 2017 7:07am CST
Take today's 'comedy' shows....I tried to watch a few of them. They were not funny or even a little humorous at all. But I can watch The Golden Girls or Roseanne in reruns and literally laugh out loud many times. Those shows were funny, as was Home Improvement. I actually prefer to watch a funny rerun than a boring current show. Heck, some commercials are funnier!
Not all humor in print is funny either. I think I'm funny, heck, I know I'm funny and I don't mean just in looks. I have always had a sense of humor and I am careful about how and where I use it. I hate it when I say something funny and someone with no sense of humor asks me to explain it. That's like a knife in my gut.
There are different types of humor - some is so dry it needs watering While others try too hard to be funny and they fail. Humor isn't something learned, it's either in you or it isn't. I don't want to be a stand-up comic since I prefer to laugh sitting down.
I hope I have made you laugh or at least smile. But enough about me...do you think you're funny?
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@Tampa_girl7 (48890)
• United States
18 Mar 17
My husband and I both feel like you. Modern television shows for the most part are disappointing 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I can find more humor just walking through PigglyWiggly LOL. I say that because we were at PW this am LOL.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@Tampa_girl7 I think every tiny hamlet in the south has one! We have been in nicer ones and some that are awful. Not my favorite but it beats driving 30 mins. for a dozen eggs.
@Tampa_girl7 (48890)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill we have a Piggly Wiggly near our house
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
There have been many comments you made that are quite funny!
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
18 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill We had a friend who was really a funny man, he made everybody laugh. His wife was not the sharpest knife in the drawer, one day she said something (not meant to be humorous) and people made an effort not to laugh. It was at this moment that her husband looking at her said "the difference between you and me, it is that I know when I make people laugh". We felt all so bad for her, luckily she did not understand.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@LadyDuck He does not sound like a very nice husband/person to say that to her.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Mar 17
I can be funny, not always intentionally though, hhehehe
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
When you spit tea out of your nose you are funny for sure. Wish I could see it when it happens - not
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
19 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill pfft, I haven't done that in awhile. speaking of tea....-ambles off to go get, as it should be brewed by now-
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I think your mother is right - a lot of tv is shouting or murder, or blood or stuff I have no interest in seeing/hearing.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@paigea I think the shouting works for that show.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I avoid the 'bad words', I don't think using them makes anything funny. Thanks for liking my humor, that makes two of us.
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@JudyEv (325345)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill Haha! I'm pretty sure there are a few more out there that like your humour too.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
18 Mar 17
i just love that lady in Golden Girls, the one who is a flirtatiously funny. is she still alive? no, not Betty White of that tall lady.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
21 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill oh, i see. she was a natural comedienne and i loved her puns.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
19 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill i like Betty White. without making her face look funny, when she delivers her lines, it is already amusing. what is the name of that one who is flirting with men?
@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I do not think I am funny. I think I am entirely too serious for words. I agree about television shows, though.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I am serious when necessary - funny when it hits me and middle of the road the rest of the time.
@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
18 Mar 17
I like those shows as well since they are actually funny. I don't like comedies now because their dirty most of the time and that's not funny to me.
I am not funny at all. I don't even try to be because I would look like an idiot.
My husband however is very funny and could have been a comedian if he liked being on stage. He prefers making a small group laugh rather than an audience.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Yes, today's 'funny' stuff is usually more on the x-rated side. My husband is funny a few times a year - he does come up with a good one but not often...I let him think he's funny.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
It is funny that I'm funny since it doens't always want to come out! I can't force it. You have had some fun comments!
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Thanks Alfredo - I think it will be a good day - hope you are resting!
@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
19 Mar 17
Yes I am. I put humor in every conversation. Most of the time I have to say I am serious when I really am. They seem to be always waiting for a punchline. Lol
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Mar 17
Sometimes that punchline is easy to throw out there
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@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
19 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill true and theyalways look forward to my punchlines.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Mar 17
Sometims the mistakes the news team in Chattanooga makes are way funnier than comedy shows.
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@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
19 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill I hardly ever watch the news on TV. I read the newspapers.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
See, age doesn't matter when it comes to being funny!
@dramagirl26 (3259)
• Ringgold, Virginia
19 Mar 17
I agree with you, most of today's comedies are bland. I prefer the old, classic comedy TV shows and movies that make me burst with laughter.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Mar 17
I cold watch Reba over and over and over - and I have.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
18 Mar 17
You made me smile and that was good...I have been seeing what SNL has been doing to spoof Trump and it makes me laugh out loud. I don't stay up to watch the show but the clips are on Facebook...
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I will tape SNL tonight, since we don't stay up that late LOL. Glad to make you smile, that's why I'm here.
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@asfarasiknow (3341)
• Bournemouth, England
18 Mar 17
Yes, I do - and thankfully so do my audiences! The problem in the UK (and I am.sure this applies to many other parts of the world as well) is that so many newer programmes are targeted at 16- 34 year-olds, despite the ageing population. This leaves older audiences feeling left out and having to seek gentler/cleaner/subtle comedy in drama programmes or in theatres. I enjoy a number of today's shows but I can also see how they would not appeal to everyone.
Of course, we only tend to remember the better comedies from years ago. For every Golden Girls or Home Improvement there would have been loads of short-lived clunkers that didn't work.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Sure there were any kinds of shows that didn't work - comedy or otherwise. Some of the shows do have older people - Betty White - but I would rather watch HGTV or a movie than to watch stupid comedy.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Mar 17
The Golden Girls is a classic. I think you are funny!
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