What do you find amusing ?

i find loads of stuff amusing, i couldn't analyse why i do though. OK, er, the Simpsons, Powerpuff Girls, Graham Norton, David Foster Wallace, cats playing with jingly ball toys, my boyfriend's hair when he has just got up and Eddie Murphy singing the "I Like Big Butts" song at the end of Shrek are high up on my amusingness list today. are we talking about funny amusing or diverting amusing? cos the list is, well both i suppose!

Dallasites driving on ice. All they have to do is see a speck of sand on the road and it's all brakelights and fishtails.

jim carrey man!

poor quality jokes being explained is always vvvvv funny, cos it's like repeating a joke only more so. road runner cartoons (more repetition). oh too many things...

Spaceghost and Sealab 2021 are complete absurd fun. Especially when stoned.

Sealab 2021 is seriously excellent, Samantha is OTM.

There's too much I find funny to go into the listing of it all and the whys. It would be easier to list what I don't find funny, like the wretched Carrot Top.

*Must* you mention Carrot Top. My day is destroyed. *weeps*

I find plenty amusing, but I think it's a matter of distinguishing between types of amusement. There's the gentle kind when seeing sweetly silly things, the wonderfully vicious kind when an idiot you hate does something idiotic, etc.

My niece dancing in a nightclub in Tokyo about a month ago. She was drunk. It was so cute seeing her jumping up'n'down. My dad filmed it so we can watch it on replay.

I like interaction with people I don't know. Mainly on the way home from somewhere after I've been out. The most recent example would have been on tuesday where me and my friend Stephen went up to any girl we saw on the street and told them we'd seen them on TG4 doing the weather forecast. TG4 is an Irish only TV station. And they were all embarassed or laughing or angry depending on the person. Other examples was when any particularly arrogant looking person walks by we ask them if they've forgotten about Dre and then proceed to berate them and inform them that Dre is back and his next album will show everyone. Also we ask people who look foreign where Grafton Street is and then we say in foreign accents "oh you're going there we'll follow you" and they're all "no we're not going there" and we say "yes we'll follow you its ok". Then we follow them. Tonight will be yet another adventure. I'm not sure if this is amusing to anyone else, I'm too involved.

In today's Guardian, there was a thing about the Wankel engine - I found that v.amusing (causing spluttering/spillage of BOOZE)

everything: and it gets me into trouble

i think true to say that ALL my broken or lost friendships down the years have resulted — at least in some in some way — from the need to make a joke, when not making it would have, well, wiser, or kinder, or just better.

I do that too actually. The thoughts come in to my head and I can't resist. The other day we were having some debate in class and some girl said "whats so wrong with being a kept woman". Then some condescending twat said "what exactly is a kept woman". And I said "you'll never know". I dislike the guy, he's a dork, but I still regretted it after. Moreso when my friends told me how funny they thought it was cos they seem to hate him, when he seems more like the harmless but arrogant nerd type.

Chevy Chase in the Christmas Vacation. :) Gale

"Absolutely", the little remembered Channel 4 sketch show of the late 80's and early 90's. It was absolutely fantastic, apart from the last series which went off a bit, but even that was still quite good. The sad thing about it is that whenever you mention it to people you either get a blank look or a vague answer like "oh, yeah, I think I saw that once, wasn't it really shit?" (mainly because Jack Dockerty went on to do a rubbish C5 chat show).

What else... oh yeah, Armando Iannucci's "Down Your Ear" series for Radio 4, of which I have every episode in mp3 format. A fantastic, arse over tit look at radio and sound, deriving much of its humour from manipulation of archive material from various Radio 4 programmes. Very whimsical and silly.

Also "On The Hour", which happens to be another Radio 4 series also produced by Armando, and of course Chris Morris. Fantastic sketches featuring the likes of Steve Coogan and Doon Mackickan (sp), such as their incredible spoof of "Weekending", and a fuckingly funny Morris- solo bit where he charts the alternative history of the 60's, where "in 1963, in front of thousands in Dallas, Texas, Mickey Mouse was assinated". oh yeah, and headlines like "Three Hundred Ton Flag Pulled Out Of Shepard" and sign off lines like "I've just heard my wife's just had a baby, and i can tell you, if it doesn't like news, I'm going to shove it straight back in again!"

And the Brak Show. Funniest programme of the year, possibly. But Cartoon Network UK only showed two episodes before taking it off for a repeat of something shit like, I'm not sure, probably "Mike Lu & Og", which is offically the worst cartoon ever.

The Joke That No One Is Laughing At... Milan Kundera. Life is amusing.

I giggle to myself all the time, yet rarely am I able to relate what I find funny to other people, hence I look like a mentalist rather than, presumeably, the funniest guy alive. Example: Walk into figurative kitchen this evening, cockney thug housemate sitting with today's Mirror laying on the table. Massive headline: 'AIDS: The timebomb's ticking and we're ignoring it'. Picture caption: 'DEVASTATING: 40 million people have the HIV virus. Aids is said to be "as big a threat as bin Laden" '. I stumble into actual kitchen chortling (=U&K word revival), cockney thug surely gives me MOST EVIL GLAREIMAGINABLE.

(I really should give them back their football. Oh but I am seriously enjoying watching them go ever so slightly mad trying to find it. And they did drunkenly rip the poster from door cos they didn't understand it (=v.v.cool abstract wordless diagrams for packing Apple PowerBook into shipping crate (whereas I have grudgingly left "Craig The Plague" sign untouched (other nickname="Ethel", not because of some clever imaginative reference as I had hoped, but because the guy's NAMEis fucking CRAIGETHEL))))

Sara sometimes does get my humor, but very odd bits of it, so she remains straight faced through clever subreferences, innuendo, humorous anecdotes and anything resembling an actual joke, but a few days ago we had this exchange:

[We have to walk home through a dark non-lit wooded park]
Sara: It's very scary here.
Me (completely coldly, dryly, offhand and without thinking it through AT ALL): I could rape you now.

Sara: [uncontrollable giggles]

absurdness, irreverence, slapstick, Schnauzers. What is the name for humour that is created by on an unexpected, anticlimatic response? drollness?

I giggle and it seems completely random because I'm not even having a conversation, but sitting translating Latin or something, because I've thought of something funny. And simple things will do. I started laughing at dinner because one of my friends looks like Harry Potter. Another friend makes me laugh because whenever he doesn't know what to say in an argument he says something stupid like, "Well, Canadians suck" and will hear no more on the subject.

the jokes that are mutating at my house at the moment:

Look, I've got chickens for hands!
Just tie me up in a sack and dump me in the river then.
Okay Tubby, that's quite enough from you.
I can see through time!
I can see through asparagus!
That's nothing, I kissed fifty-one boys last night.
Are you coming on to me? Are you calling me fat?
You could just cut them off, get prosthetic ones and start afresh!
There's a beach holiday going on in my guts.

One thing i find absolutely hilarious are french braids.

especially teen girls creating them in public! har har har!

Garfield makes me laugh.

Last night on THE POLICE DO SOHO (or whatever it was called) there was a great drunk guy who shouted "Hit me, I'm a golfball"! It was ace. Then later we sang "heads shoulders knees and toes" but just with "ears, nose and throat, nose and throat". It's surprisingly hard! Try it kids! Especially if you are in BUSY OFFICE. (This was provoked by mention of ENT dept on Ver Sopranos).

Gale, you OTM! Except Chevy Chase is funny in anything. Markus Babbel's Darkest Gavel is also keeping me highly amused at the moment.

I preferred Vlad the Impala myself Jonnie.

(giggles)

My friends. The unexpected.

this cracked me up today.

it was a crap day.

Brilliant.

The Organ Gang

Monkeys, because they're like tiny, happy little people.

thanks to Stupornaut:

THE DUGOUT
http://www.progressiveboink.com/dugout/

People falling over

in 2001 gareth was OTM!

Schadenfreude