How important is a sense of humor?

[WildRanger]

How important is a sense of humor when you're in the company of your friends or partner?
What would you say?

[Adami]

87%

[lonestar]

87%

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

[Adami]

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.

[The Walrus]

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.

[King Postwhore]

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?

[King Postwhore]

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.

[MirrorMask]

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.

[Phoenix87x]

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.

[Adami]

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.

[Max Kuehnau]

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.

[Elite]

42

[Architeuthis]

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.   

[hefdaddy42]

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.

[MirrorMask]

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 

[Phoenix87x]

       

[lonestar]

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.

  true that, it was earned for sure.

[eric42434224]

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.

[wolfking]

87%

 

[bout to crash]

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.

[TheCountOfNYC]

I’m dating a comedian to answer the question.

[Tick]

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!

[Stadler]

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. 

[King Postwhore]

I still make my wife giggle.  It's still important.

[cramx3]

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. 

[MoraWintersoul]

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.

[cramx3]

OoOoO 

[Phoenix87x]

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.

[eric42434224]

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?

[Herrick]

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?

[Max Kuehnau]

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

[Adami]

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.

[cramx3]

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.

[Max Kuehnau]

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.

[Herrick]

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/

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