Is humour international?

[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.

[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.