Misplaced sense of humor....?  

all the time. sometimes i just think of something that has nothing to do with anyone or anything and i just get giggling. it appears that i'm laughing at nothing but im really not.

This happens to me all the time, I just chalk it down to me having superior wit, either that or there is something wrong with me.

I call a misplaced sense of humour a warped sense of humour. I can be warped in the things I laugh at. I can also be dry, sarcastic, crude or witty. A great deal depends on my mood. One thing is for certain I love to laugh and make others laugh. There have been occassions when I have laughed when nobody else was, it makes you feel silly. One one occassion I was on the bus and as I looked out of the window I saw a seagull poop on this woman. The look of disgust and disbelief on her face cracked me up, but nobody else appeared to have noticed. I was the only one laughing, and I was alone. Those around me must have thought I had escaped the local institution for the insane.

Yes,at my dads wife funeral.
The minister guy was prattling on doing the god stuff,and I was in hysterics,and it made it worse that I got the feeling he knew I was not a god person.I honestly did almost pee my pants.

I used to (hope I've conquered it) laugh when I didn't really think it was funny. Maybe it was nerves sometimes and then again sometimes I would laugh when, for example, someone slipped and fell or hurt themselves in another unfortunate accident. I felt ashamed but instead of stopping I laughed harder. Not for a serious accident just little ones. Very weird huh!

AT first I couldn't think of any specific episode in my life where I burst out laughing at a time or point where one shouldn't have....but then you gave that marvelous example of chuckles funeral in Mary Tyler Moore...and yes, I remember that episode--Okay...here's what got me laughing...I have no idea why, but it did...This was when Pope John II died...the news media showed him lying in state as mourners came by to pay their tribute to him--I don't know why, but suddenly a image in my head came to mind...That there was the Pope's body was on that table and suddenly I had this vision of him popping up and saying to the effect..."Just kidding folks"--I know, I know...totally weird...but I really cracked up with that image in my head..So I just you could really view this as misplaced humor

My wife has a friend who finds other peoples' misfortune HILARIOUSLY funny. She is not an unkind or ungenerous person and I am sure she does not really have a nasty streak, but if you were to trip up in front of her she would dissolve into howls of laughter. Even complete strangers have this effect on her and I am certain she must have been close to getting punched on occasions for giggling at accidents.
We told her about spilling some paint on the carpet whilst decorating and it was about 10 minutes before she copuld speak clearly on the phone as she nearly choked laughing.

Okay....A new Humor Heading..I like that. I also find humor in things like you do. No one else can understand it. Along with my warped, deranged sense of humor, I now find I have a misplaced sense of humor. Doctor, Doctor, What other diagnosis will someone find for me next? OMG! Don't tell me that next is the dreaded A B normal sense of humor? Ohhh Nooo!

Jesus... that's the story of my life. I can't even begin to count the times I've cracked a joke to bring what I thought was appropriate humor into the mix only to find that I was the only one chuckling.
And then I look up at the rest of them and say, "What?"
The latest incident was during the rehearsal dinner of my nephew's wedding. I was toasting the bride to be and welcoming her into the family.
I said, Nikki can officially become a member of the family now because I have seen her boobs."
And I recounted a story about a recent trip to the water park where Nikki came down the waterslide, but sadly, her bikini top, didn't.
The bride's father wanted to hit me with his cane. The bride's grandfather turned down his hearing aid.
My side of the family let out a collective "I can't believe you," and wouldn't let me have anymore wine.
I spend so much time with my foot in my mouth that I'm half way there getting dressed in the morning. I know where at least one shoe is.

Oh yes - very often As a Brit I have a very dry, sarcastic sense of humour anyway - I tend to see humour in words not practical jokes, slapstick or visual gags, - and as such, sometimes words or situations, that no one else finds funny have me in fits of giggles! I can't think of a specific example now off the top of my head, but I often hear or read something that strikes me as funny, but no one else finds it so! Interesting discussion - thanks for it.