Humour

Yesterday, I went for a standup comedy show staged by a famous American Hollywood comedian. The test for a great comedian, is always a live show. He was really good live. Props for that.....slapstick not exactly my perfect cup of tea, but he was pretty damn good.


Which got me thinking about humour. See, I think funny people fall into 6 categories:

1) button-pushers
2) manic-depressive (pple in these 2 categories are somehow almost never mutually exclusive, but need to push buttons to create a funny line. For e.g. excessive "your mother" and "cunt and fuck" jokes)
3) outrageous (can be clean, dirty. They don't push too much buttons but are just so factually funny they are brillant. I think they are more versatile then the above 2 types)
4) The clueless joke (oh dear)
5) The trying joke (clueless)
6) The trying joke (say another word and I'll slap yr face!)


You get your kicks from people in categories 1 - 3. Fine. But let me elaborate more on those in Category 5 & 6. One of the saddest things in life is a self-proclaimed funnyman. And they both belong to Category 5 & 6. But there's a key difference between them.

Category 5ers are those who try to be funny but fail miserably in their desperate attempt. But you see the sincerity and such wide-eyed genine effort that it's almost wrong to disappoint them. So, you pat them on their heads, pacify them and act like you're almost geniunely tickled. They'll buy it.

Category 6ers are those who try, are not clueless and yet, expect a somewhat half decent intellectual response to their sad sad joke. Usually, these righteous self-proclaimed "look at me" types try to antagonize you to illict a legit response, that I swear, out of pity, there are many times I try not to stare open-mouth while trying to think if I should even attempt to respond.
Category 6ers. Do the world a favour and stop antagonizing simple folk like us, becos it's not only lame, it's tiring and it reeks of your lack of self-confidence.

My favourites are Category 3 & 4. Good day!