Do you laugh?

I've been reading this article ("What’s So Friggin' Funny?" [Link]). The interesting point, to me, is that laughter has not much to do with a really funny punch line of a good joke, but is basically a form a socializing and it facilitates interacting with others.

I do laugh occasionally. I tried to observe myself both when I'm alone and when I'm interacting with others and found it quite curious that I laugh more than I thought I would (which is still not that much). It certainly depends on the mood I am in; I'm usually quite apathetic, but still experience some mood swings every now and then. But what I found most striking was that I actually do laugh when I'm alone. When I read something funny or think about something I find amusing, I actually laugh in pretty much the same way I do when I'm not alone, so it is certainly not only a way of interacting for me.

How about you?

It generally really takes a lot to get me to laugh authentically. If someone says something which elicits some kind of response involving laughter, I don't feel any obligation to laugh. I think it would be safe to say that relative to the rest of the population, I do not laugh as much at all....I am not easily amused.

I can think of one person I can be around(a former house-mates boyfriend), and there was great humor-chemistry. I can't explain how it happens, but somehow our senses of humor play off of each other very well. Finding someone like that is VERY rare for me though, because my sense of humor is so obscure.

I am also annoyed to no end by people who laugh nervously/excessively. I am staying with relatives right now, one of them is my cousin. She does this nervous/excessive laughter which I find very obnoxious and distracting. I wish that she would just say what she needs to say, and not laugh intermittently.

No, I don't laugh much. It takes a special situation--a severe disconnect between intention and effect--to make me laugh.

For instance, Faye Dunaway's portayal of Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest is hilarious due to Dunaway's quite humorless/serious delivery combined with a sincere, yet deeply flawed, biography/screenplay which overstates Crawford's eccentricities...so that a movie billed as a serious celebrity bio intended to spotlight the horror of child abuse becomes laugh-out-loud funny.

Steppenwolf wrote:I've been reading this article ("What’s So Friggin' Funny?" [Link]). The interesting point, to me, is that laughter has not much to do with a really funny punch line of a good joke, but is basically a form a socializing and it facilitates interacting with others.

I do laugh occasionally. I tried to observe myself both when I'm alone and when I'm interacting with others and found it quite curious that I laugh more than I thought I would (which is still not that much). It certainly depends on the mood I am in; I'm usually quite apathetic, but still experience some mood swings every now and then. But what I found most striking was that I actually do laugh when I'm alone. When I read something funny or think about something I find amusing, I actually laugh in pretty much the same way I do when I'm not alone, so it is certainly not only a way of interacting for me.

How about you?

When I go to a movie theater to watch a comedy, I tend to laugh when most people do. Sometimes I laugh when no one else does, and sometimes I won't laugh when everyone else does. But for the most part I laugh about as often.

When I'm watching Comedy Central Presents, or a stand up comic, I notice the audience seems to laugh at all the stupid jokes and the ones I find amusing but not lol funny.

If I don't find something funny I won't laugh.

That's an interesting question, about laughter. I despise sitcoms because I don't find them funny at all and I'm genuinely confused when the audience laughs. The jokes just aren't funny. I laugh far more when I'm alone, over things I'm thinking about. I do find Monty Python funny. In 'Holy Grail', for example, when Sir Galahad (Michael Palin) asks the French leader, "Is there anyone else up there we can talk to?" and the leader responds, "No. Mind your own business." It's the slightly wounded expression on Palin's face--cracks me up. There's an animated program on Cartoon Network's 'Adult Swim' line up called 'The Venture Bros.' that I find funny, and Dave Chappelle's jokes (largely observational humor and pointedly about race, economics and social issues) shrewd and funny. Deadpan delivery gets me going most of all.

I'm curious: what specific performers/programs/movies make schizoids laugh?

lia wrote:I'm curious: what specific performers/programs/movies make schizoids laugh?

I like Bill Hicks, Andy Kaufman, Monty Phyton, The Simpsons, Futurama.

lia wrote:I'm curious: what specific performers/programs/movies make schizoids laugh?

Dave Chappelle is one of my all-time favorite comedians.

Anyway, I can honestly laugh when something's funny. I don't think that's a non-schizoid trait. It's the social aspect of it that gets me; in interpersonal settings, I can force laughter convincingly if I really have to, but it doesn't seem worth the effort most of the time. So I usually don't bother.

I laugh a lot, although outside of my family, I seem like a very serious person. They make me laugh everyday.

As for tv shows, currently I like "New Adventures of Old Christine", some "South Park" and "It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia." The other things, I find funny on tv aren't really meant to be, like Dr. Phil.

I don't find many movies funny, although I do like "Shaun of Dead", "Hot Fuzz", and "40yr Old Virgin".

Yeah, I laugh and giggle a lot when I'm with other people. It's easy to make me laugh actually. I giggle when someone says something that's not really funny but I don't really know what else to say. Giggling is an acceptable female way of getting through a converstation without saying much especially when talking to a guy.

I also laugh when I'm by myself. To me the funniest movie scene ever is in Pulp Fiction when Butch is driving away from his apartment after getting his watch and he thinks he's going to get away safe but then Marsellus Wallace walks in front of his car with a couple of coffees then stops and turns his head and goes, "Mother###$er!" That always makes me laugh for some reason.

I'm curious: what specific performers/programs/movies make schizoids laugh?

The only thing I can think of which predictably makes me laugh, is Jerry Seinfeld. Otherwise, I can't think of anything funny. Actually, I have a folder of images on my computer which I think are hysterical. Here are some of them(I broke into hysterical laughter just flipping through them. That was nice):