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Title: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: WildRanger on December 26, 2019, 07:35:32 AM
How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Adami on December 26, 2019, 07:36:53 AM
87%
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: lonestar on December 26, 2019, 07:38:25 AM
87%

It's 83%...i just don't understand how someone with a "doctorate" in psychology could be so off on this issue.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Adami on December 26, 2019, 07:39:15 AM
87%

It's 83%...i just don't understand how someone with a "doctorate" in psychology could be so off on this issue.

East Coast/West Coast thing. Sorry brah.

And don't put doctorate in quotations. Put psychology in quotations. At least my doctorate is real.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: The Walrus on December 26, 2019, 07:41:42 AM
Extremely. There is little I dislike more than talking to someone who has no sense of humor, because it's just so tedious and stiff. Laughter is everything.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: King Postwhore on December 26, 2019, 07:59:19 AM
87%

It's 83%...i just don't understand how someone with a "doctorate" in psychology could be so off on this issue.

East Coast/West Coast thing. Sorry brah.

And don't put doctorate in quotations. Put psychology in quotations. At least my doctorate is real.

Gansta Psychology?  Throwing down 87% & 83% gang signs?
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: King Postwhore on December 26, 2019, 07:59:40 AM
Extremely. There is little I dislike more than talking to someone who has no sense of humor, because it's just so tedious and stiff. Laughter is everything.

Hey baby.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: MirrorMask on December 26, 2019, 08:29:25 AM
How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

Just for curiosity, what kind of replies do you expect? are you genuinely curious and think this is gonna be 50 / 50 with half of the replies being "you have to be dead serious all the time and never ever make a joke or lighten up the mood"?

Of course having a sense of humor is appreciated in all social contests and circles (and you specifically wrote friends and partner, not mentioning a workplace), come on.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Phoenix87x on December 26, 2019, 10:23:18 AM
I am about as non politically correct as a person can be so a partner has to have the same sense of humor or its just not gonna work. My friends though have varying degrees of the same sense of humor. I see them here and there, so its easier to tone it down, but most of the time i have no filter regardless, lol.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Adami on December 26, 2019, 10:27:47 AM
How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

Just for curiosity, what kind of replies do you expect? are you genuinely curious and think this is gonna be 50 / 50 with half of the replies being "you have to be dead serious all the time and never ever make a joke or lighten up the mood"?

Of course having a sense of humor is appreciated in all social contests and circles (and you specifically wrote friends and partner, not mentioning a workplace), come on.

Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? WildRanger rarely posts any replies to his own threads. He just kind of drops them and takes off for a while then drops another one.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Max Kuehnau on December 26, 2019, 11:10:33 AM
How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

Just for curiosity, what kind of replies do you expect? are you genuinely curious and think this is gonna be 50 / 50 with half of the replies being "you have to be dead serious all the time and never ever make a joke or lighten up the mood"?

Of course having a sense of humor is appreciated in all social contests and circles (and you specifically wrote friends and partner, not mentioning a workplace), come on.

Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? WildRanger rarely posts any replies to his own threads. He just kind of drops them and takes off for a while then drops another one.
this might be why people thought he hacked my account when I asked about FII and some other things. Back to topic: I don't know. I only have 1 g of humour.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Elite on December 26, 2019, 12:22:38 PM
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Post by: Architeuthis on December 26, 2019, 12:38:24 PM
Humor is very important but has it's place.  I always found it somewhat disrespectful when well meaning people use too much humor to try to comfort a berieved person who has lost someone close in death.   
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: hefdaddy42 on December 26, 2019, 02:10:36 PM
How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

Just for curiosity, what kind of replies do you expect? are you genuinely curious and think this is gonna be 50 / 50 with half of the replies being "you have to be dead serious all the time and never ever make a joke or lighten up the mood"?

Of course having a sense of humor is appreciated in all social contests and circles (and you specifically wrote friends and partner, not mentioning a workplace), come on.

Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? WildRanger rarely posts any replies to his own threads. He just kind of drops them and takes off for a while then drops another one.
Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? 

Just curious, because MirrorMask generally answers questions fairly quickly.  He also tends to be a good contributor to threads in which he has interest.  Including, presumably, this one. 

Although I wouldn't presume to expect it.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: MirrorMask on December 26, 2019, 02:58:40 PM
How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

Just for curiosity, what kind of replies do you expect? are you genuinely curious and think this is gonna be 50 / 50 with half of the replies being "you have to be dead serious all the time and never ever make a joke or lighten up the mood"?

Of course having a sense of humor is appreciated in all social contests and circles (and you specifically wrote friends and partner, not mentioning a workplace), come on.

Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? WildRanger rarely posts any replies to his own threads. He just kind of drops them and takes off for a while then drops another one.
Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? 

Just curious, because MirrorMask generally answers questions fairly quickly.  He also tends to be a good contributor to threads in which he has interest.  Including, presumably, this one. 

Although I wouldn't presume to expect it.

Now I feel I'm stuck in a curiosity inception  ;D
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Phoenix87x on December 26, 2019, 04:03:44 PM

        (https://i.imgur.com/tO1rm.gif)
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: lonestar on December 26, 2019, 10:55:31 PM
87%

It's 83%...i just don't understand how someone with a "doctorate" in psychology could be so off on this issue.

East Coast/West Coast thing. Sorry brah.

And don't put doctorate in quotations. Put psychology in quotations. At least my doctorate is real.

 :lol true that, it was earned for sure.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: eric42434224 on December 26, 2019, 11:41:14 PM
Inversely Proportional to cup size?

I kid.  It is important, but too much can give diminished returns.  No woman is hot enough if she acts like Robin Williams.
There surely is a goldilox zone for sense of humor.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: wolfking on December 27, 2019, 03:47:28 AM
87%

 :rollin
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: bout to crash on December 29, 2019, 12:22:00 AM
No woman is hot enough if she acts like Robin Williams.

This man is delusional.

And it is extremely important that folks in my life have the ability to laugh at just about anything. If somebody can't handle constant old people and death jokes, they will not want to be around me for very long.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: TheCountOfNYC on December 29, 2019, 12:53:28 PM
I’m dating a comedian to answer the question.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Tick on January 03, 2020, 12:38:41 PM
I 100% need to be with someone with a sense of humor. I can't relate to anyone who isn't funny!
I also HAVE to be funny! And I am! I'm fucking hilarious! :metal
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Stadler on January 03, 2020, 02:04:47 PM
How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

Just for curiosity, what kind of replies do you expect? are you genuinely curious and think this is gonna be 50 / 50 with half of the replies being "you have to be dead serious all the time and never ever make a joke or lighten up the mood"?

Of course having a sense of humor is appreciated in all social contests and circles (and you specifically wrote friends and partner, not mentioning a workplace), come on.

Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? WildRanger rarely posts any replies to his own threads. He just kind of drops them and takes off for a while then drops another one.
Just for curiosity, what kind of reply do you expect? 

Just curious, because MirrorMask generally answers questions fairly quickly.  He also tends to be a good contributor to threads in which he has interest.  Including, presumably, this one. 

Although I wouldn't presume to expect it.

Just for curiosity, what kind of ...


For me, I'm personally a bit like Phoenix, in that my humor tends to go where it goes (I have a tendency to watch people on TV and blurt out "they're going to bone" when it looks like we're watching a meet-cute happening).   But I can't say that I have any standard for a sense of humor.  My wife, for example, rarely tells jokes, isn't really "funny" in that way, but she has a good understanding of humor and recognizes it when it's there.  That's really the important thing, isn't it?   Put a different way, I'm far more interested in the ability to read a room and go with the moment than I am in the comedic equivalent of Whitney Cummings. 
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: King Postwhore on January 03, 2020, 02:59:05 PM
I still make my wife giggle.  It's still important.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: cramx3 on January 03, 2020, 03:45:02 PM
I think my dating profile says something along the lines of "I love laughing" and it's true.  Laughing is one of the best things in life.  I like to be surrounded by people who have a sense of humor.  If anyone knew me, they'd know I have a loud and recognizable laugh, just like my mother, and it's like the best thing ever to find something so funny you can't stop laughing.  Or even better, if you are crying from laughter. 
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Post by: MoraWintersoul on January 04, 2020, 05:28:09 AM
I think my dating profile says something along the lines of "I love laughing" and it's true.  Laughing is one of the best things in life.  I like to be surrounded by people who have a sense of humor.  If anyone knew me, they'd know I have a loud and recognizable laugh, just like my mother, and it's like the best thing ever to find something so funny you can't stop laughing.  Or even better, if you are crying from laughter.
I would put the rest of this in the dating profile as well  ;) something like "I love laughing, and people love to be around me when I laugh - when you hear me, you'll understand why". That's something I'd swipe right on.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: cramx3 on January 04, 2020, 07:40:25 AM
OoOoO  :yarr
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Phoenix87x on January 04, 2020, 07:55:39 AM
I think my dating profile says something along the lines of "I love laughing" and it's true.  Laughing is one of the best things in life.  I like to be surrounded by people who have a sense of humor.  If anyone knew me, they'd know I have a loud and recognizable laugh, just like my mother, and it's like the best thing ever to find something so funny you can't stop laughing.  Or even better, if you are crying from laughter.

I also mentioned it in my dating profile as well. For the part about "what's the first thing people notice about you" I have: My very dry, sarcastic sense of humor. Might as well be up front about it.

 If I can not make a partner laugh, then the relationship is dead on arrival.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: eric42434224 on January 05, 2020, 01:45:01 PM
No woman is hot enough if she acts like Robin Williams.

This man is delusional.


Lol. Nah.
Sense of humor is a must, but if someone goes on humor diarrhea of the mouth like Robin Williams.  Yeah no thanks.  That would drive me to suicide.

Too soon?
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Herrick on January 06, 2020, 11:11:43 AM
No woman is hot enough if she acts like Robin Williams.

This man is delusional.


Lol. Nah.
Sense of humor is a must, but if someone goes on humor diarrhea of the mouth like Robin Williams.  Yeah no thanks.  That would drive me to suicide.

Too soon?

Can you give an example of Williams' humor diarrhea? I've seen more of his serious movies than his comedies so I'm not familiar with his style. Wasn't he known as a joke thief?
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Max Kuehnau on January 06, 2020, 11:14:57 AM
No woman is hot enough if she acts like Robin Williams.

This man is delusional.


Lol. Nah.
Sense of humor is a must, but if someone goes on humor diarrhea of the mouth like Robin Williams.  Yeah no thanks.  That would drive me to suicide.

Too soon?

Can you give an example of Williams' humor diarrhea? I've seen more of his serious movies than his comedies so I'm not familiar with his style. Wasn't he known as a joke thief?
him portraying the Genie in Aladdin was that IMHO
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Adami on January 06, 2020, 11:16:22 AM
No woman is hot enough if she acts like Robin Williams.

This man is delusional.


Lol. Nah.
Sense of humor is a must, but if someone goes on humor diarrhea of the mouth like Robin Williams.  Yeah no thanks.  That would drive me to suicide.

Too soon?

Can you give an example of Williams' humor diarrhea? I've seen more of his serious movies than his comedies so I'm not familiar with his style. Wasn't he known as a joke thief?

First, no I've seen nothing about him being a joke thief. The dude could improvise more jokes in an hour than most comedians could write in a week. The dude was just never off. I think that's what people mean.

I knew a guy who once had dinner with Williams and he was apparently in stand up mode the whole dinner. Made his food talk and everything. I can see that being a bit exhausting for some.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: cramx3 on January 06, 2020, 11:18:07 AM
He had a pretty dirty mouth in his stand ups, the one I've seen was fantastic.  To each their own, but in my mind, Robin Williams was hilarious.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Max Kuehnau on January 06, 2020, 11:21:54 AM
I loved him too. (my favourite comedian apart from the Monty Python guys and Cleese most of all) I discovered him by way of DT actually. (another thing they've done that I'm grateful for.) Yes his stand ups were stupendous IMHO.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Herrick on January 06, 2020, 11:34:00 AM
First, no I've seen nothing about him being a joke thief. The dude could improvise more jokes in an hour than most comedians could write in a week. The dude was just never off. I think that's what people mean.

I knew a guy who once had dinner with Williams and he was apparently in stand up mode the whole dinner. Made his food talk and everything. I can see that being a bit exhausting for some.

I heard about it while he was still alive and I'm not even into comedians. I don't know if it's true but the accusation has been out there for years.

https://www.kempa.com/robin-williams-prince-of-thieves/ (https://www.kempa.com/robin-williams-prince-of-thieves/)

Yeah that dinner story does sound like it would be annoying.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Adami on January 06, 2020, 11:39:44 AM
First, no I've seen nothing about him being a joke thief. The dude could improvise more jokes in an hour than most comedians could write in a week. The dude was just never off. I think that's what people mean.

I knew a guy who once had dinner with Williams and he was apparently in stand up mode the whole dinner. Made his food talk and everything. I can see that being a bit exhausting for some.

I heard about it while he was still alive and I'm not even into comedians. I don't know if it's true but the accusation has been out there for years.

https://www.kempa.com/robin-williams-prince-of-thieves/ (https://www.kempa.com/robin-williams-prince-of-thieves/)

Yeah that dinner story does sound like it would be annoying.

Looked into it a bit more. Apparently he recognized that when he improvised a ton, he would occasionally repeat a joke he heard without thinking and then catch himself. He seems to have owned up to it, but that's quite different than intentionally joke stealing. I guess it's a product of his brain working so fast, he didn't censor everything he should've. Apparently, from what I could read, if he realized he did that, he would often compensate the original writers pretty well. Never seemed to be intentional. Guess it's a risk with rapid improvisation, you may not realize where you got that idea from in the moment.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Stadler on January 06, 2020, 12:11:53 PM
I have a respect for Williams, but I'm not enamored of him.  He's funny, but sometimes that manic silliness is not my (comedic) thing. 

Underrated actor, though, when he was able to shut off the mania.   Fan of "One Hour Photo" and "Insomnia". 
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Herrick on January 06, 2020, 04:12:56 PM
I have a respect for Williams, but I'm not enamored of him.  He's funny, but sometimes that manic silliness is not my (comedic) thing. 

Underrated actor, though, when he was able to shut off the mania.   Fan of "One Hour Photo" and "Insomnia".

I've been meaning to watch One Hour Photo for years but never got around to it. Insomnia was pretty good from what I remember.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: MoraWintersoul on January 06, 2020, 05:03:32 PM
That brings something to mind (usually keeping WR's threads on topic is hard because he asks weird questions you can't discuss all that much about, but oh, do I try). It's important not to be too funny. I look at most comedians, and I wouldn't want them to be my loved ones, whether they are troubled, fucked up, or just assholes, it seems to be what makes them exceptionally funny.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: cramx3 on January 06, 2020, 05:13:26 PM
That brings something to mind (usually keeping WR's threads on topic is hard because he asks weird questions you can't discuss all that much about, but oh, do I try). It's important not to be too funny. I look at most comedians, and I wouldn't want them to be my loved ones, whether they are troubled, fucked up, or just assholes, it seems to be what makes them exceptionally funny.

There's probably some truth to that, I think to get to the top in many forms of entertainment, it takes a certain type of personality. I'm not sure that type personally works for me either.
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: bout to crash on January 06, 2020, 06:14:30 PM
I had an OKC date with a comic once. He was very funny but the chemistry was meh so I never saw him again. A dude I would drink with and maybe even bone after a few but yeah, prob not long term dating material :lol

But yeah, I love Robin Williams. I drove a guy for the film fest one year who had seen him right before he died. That was an intense convo!
Title: Re: How important is a sense of humor?
Post by: Stadler on January 07, 2020, 07:29:23 AM
Anyone watch "Crashing" with Pete Holmes on HBO?   I imagine that's very serialized/fictionalized, but that seems both an interesting and exhausting existence.   I'd have been into it when I was 25, not so much now that I'm... er, not 25.