Is humour international?

[Beanz]

http://youtu.be/W-AEp338IwU

Do you think humour can ever be truly international, if something is funny is it funny in any country or do regional differences mean the joke is sometimes lost. This clip was shared with me by a Dutch friend of mine called Joris and he thinks it is much funnier spoken in Dutch than English. I thought it was funny and kinda like the guy and have to admire someone who can perform so well in what is their second language.

[generalbulldog]

No, humor is always subjective due to cultural, ethnic, racial, and national differences. What someone finds funny, another person may find offensive due to various reasons I've mentioned.

[0james0]

Sometimes.

The more basic the easier it transfers.

[Mattyhitman]

Germans never find anything funny, they have no sense of humour
Especially if it's a dutchman or englishman telling the jokes

[Otley]

Germans have no sense of humour except for Wlad but hes from the Ukraine........we Brits have a great sense of humour......the Irish also have great sense of humour......never met any YOUNG middle eastern or asian's who are funny....what I have noticed is they have copied Ali G and talk like that....INNIT!!!!!


Job Biscuit (I might be wrong thought)!!!!



eh eh!!!!

[erics44]

there are certain things that are just fuckin funny

take this post on the cheating thread

One of the best ways to not cheat is not put yourself in a position where you have to say no. I tend to avoid going to places w/o the wife where a young beautiful woman might proposition me.

im still in stiches

[Beanz]

No, humor is always subjective due to cultural, ethnic, racial, and national differences. What someone finds funny, another person may find offensive due to various reasons I've mentioned.

I'm not so sure i think 0james0 may have a point . When the humour is simple, and I think visual slapstick stuff is a classic example, it is often quite universal in it's popularity. Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Mr Bean. In this way a lot of animation seems to translate well, where visual jokes remove the language barrier. Where i think you have a point is in verbal humour, that often relies on walking a fine line between the acceptable and the taboo. Dark and Black Humour clearly revels in the chance to offend and can indeed seem crass without a cultural context in which to understand it.

[El Kabong]

If humor IS international then eric can expect his jokes not to be laughed at where ever he goes

[erics44]

If humor IS international then eric can expect his jokes not to be laughed at where ever he goes

see this is classic humour

i bet not one of you reading this didnt crack your sides

[armyash]

I think A-force is found to be a joke internationally

[Spicoli]

I laugh hardest at my own joke more so when others 'don't get it' , or get that look on there face like they are waiting for someone to stand up and go flat nutty at any moment.

Funnys funny no matter the Nation. Look at the Swiss.