Talk:Anti-humor
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This page was nominated for votes for deletion, but the consensus was to keep the article. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Anti-humor.
[edit] Edits and reverts
Andre Please read my edits before you revert. I cleaned up and sectioned many inappropriately grouped paragraphs and revised the list of jokes which subject traditional humour. 'How many babies does it take to paint a barn?' is not a subversion of a traditional joke.I have also added much technical description on the jokes. Perhaps we should include a section on 'Sick Humour' or 'Dead Body humour' to this end in the page, but I feel that the point of subverted jokes is less about jokes such as 'Because she had no legs'. The edits I made to the opening paragraph were because I felt that the style was inconcise and ambiguous. Many subjective phrases such as 'This is extremely funny' were removed for the sake of neutrality. I also heavily edited the section on the specific comedian because it seemed out of place. Again, perhaps a new section in 'Anti-humour in stand-up comedy' is called for. In all I have made made some big superficial changes, but the essence of the article remains the same. Please could we come to a compromise on this?Minglex 19:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)Minglex Please keep the punchline of the apple joke the same. There is no reason to change it. ja ja ja 23:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jokes
- Those chicken jokes, besides the original of course, are not anti-jokes. They just aren't funny. Can we get some real anti-jokes? I'll try and find my list.
- Good point. Andre (talk) 21:46, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
I removed the chicken jokes, as people said, they'e not anti-humor. I think someone got carried away when they saw the turkey variant and went "say, I know lots more chicken jokes", which is not really the point. JRM · Talk 11:35, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
What is the similarity between a hippo and an apple? They're both red expect for the hippo.--Taida 01:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bill Bailey will have the eggs of numbing inevitability
I'm pretty sure the blind mice joke is from Bill Bailey and should really be credited, unless he stole it from somewhere else. Can the user who added it say whether or not they heard from Bailey? Coyote-37 15:51, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
What's the question here? Bill has done spoof versions of Three Blind Mice by Richard Clayderman and Tom Waits if that's what you mean. Here is an MP3 if you want proof. Bill has also done some excellent Three Blokes in a Pub jokes, which could be included in this article. Not Josh 13:44, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Pinky and the Brain
I added a lil addon ot the nonesense section about pinky and the brain, feel free to remove or mutliate with corrections ;p Lovok 14:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Where does this joke fit in:
A: This is a reverse knock-knock joke, you start. B: Oh, ok. Knock-knock. A: Who's there? B: ????
What category is it? Stevage 11:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- "Subversions of traditional jokes", I suppose. Although I know that one as "Hey, I know a great knock knock joke!" "What is it?" "You start..." --McGeddon 12:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anti-humour designed to make a political point?
I can only think of one at the moment, but an example is Ian Hislop's joke (told on HIGNFY: "Doctor, doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains." "We don't have any beds."
But there are probably other jokes like that that use part of a "real" joke in order for the punchline to make a political point; if there are, is that worth putting in?
[edit] Puns
Also, what about puns? I often hear appalingly bad puns but people laugh (or groan) anyway because they're so bad. And Ted Chippington is mentioned here and a lot of his act was awful puns like "Do you want to buy some grass? No thanks, I haven't got a garden" and the humour derived from the awfulness and the audience reaction.
[edit] Neil Hamburger
What about Neil Hamburger? His unique style of anti-humor should be represented in the stand-up section. Sarnath 00:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Title
Why "anti-humor", rather than "anti-humour", which would fit with the Humour article? Mzyxptlk 18:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal for move. NOW.
I am officaly proposing to move this to Anti-Humour, to fit in with Humour. No response in a while, and I'll be bold and do it myself. Sdoherty1000 03:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- This has been discussed already in the past. Andre (talk) 22:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I thought it had, but I can't find it. Essentially the manual of style says that, if a topic is not particularly British or American in nature, it stays at what it was when it was first created. Andre (talk) 22:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. The first several significant contributions use "humor," and by past precedent an article should be left where it is unless there's good reason to move it: see [1] for an example of this. 67.185.99.246 22:46, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Note also that humour was originally "humor" [2] and it was unnecessarily railroaded to the British spelling. This kind of crap really irks me. 67.185.99.246 23:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Silly indeed, should be a bannable offense Qevlarr 23:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. I usually disagree with changing between American/Britisch English style, but it makes sense in this case Qevlarr 23:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removed an Out-of-Place Comment
After "examples of anti-humor," the line: "Another comedian, Ken Marino, had a recurring character on the sketch show The State, who was an obvious dork, but popular at parties due to a lame, generic catchphrase." Had been written in, but it (a) didn't make much sense there, and (b) seemed somewhat subjective due to the phrase "an obvious dork." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HJSoulma (talk • contribs) 04:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] This article could use a rewrite
This article could use a rewrite This article could use a rewrite 01:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge?
This article is pretty much the exact same as anti-jokeDboyz-x.etown 19:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List creep
The "Nonsense jokes" seems to be suffering a lot of list creep from anyone who passes by and realises they can add whatever they feel like making up off the top of their head. Is there an interesting source for the duck joke (I thought it was Lear or Carroll, but can't find anything to back that up), or other genuinely classic nonsense jokes we can fill this section with? --McGeddon 00:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
