What’s Your Style of Humor?
February 2nd, 2005
The Planet Debian folks have been enjoying quizzes lately. Here’s one I just stumbled across: What’s Your Style Of Humor?
The verdict for me, which Terah informs me is quite accurate, is:
Sunny/Dark: 2/10
drY/Gross: 3/10
Traditional/Offbeat: 2/10
Active/Passive: 5/10You are a SYT–Sunny Dry Traditional. This makes you a Sophisticate.
You like conservative humor — implied rather than explicit, and a well- timed eyebrow raise rather than a punchline. You’re exactly the right kind of funny a well-bred hostess would want at her functions. You might be Jewish.
You’re not afraid of a risque joke — you just don’t often make them. This means that people may keep it squeaky clean around you, and that when you do work blue it’s super too so funny.
You’re like Jon Stewart on that fake cover of the public domain Victorian erotica textbook in the back of America. You should get that book. You’ll think it’s funny as hell.
You might like The Daily Show, Remember Wenn and when Hamlet says, “Do you think I meant country matters?” You would snigger thyself all the way to the buttery bar.
Of the 11502 people who have taken this quiz, 26.3 % are this type.
Your Active humor score of 5/10 means you’re a yellow dash of comedy down the middle of the humorous road. You prefer to listen than to be the center of attention, inserting funny observations and comments rather than driving the herd. That’s cool. Just remember that the quantity of funny you provide tends to make people think you’re up to something.
Yep, I’d say that’s pretty accurate. I do like the Daily Show and also enjoyed America. I think “gross” humor isn’t humor. But I do enjoy the Marx Brothers. Hmm.
Categories: Humor
I’m not sure if I should be scared or not. John and I have very similar scores.
Sunny/Dark: 3/10
drY/Gross: 2/10
Traditional/Offbeat: 3/10
Active/Passive: 5/10
However, I REFUSE to watch anything “slapstickish” (my term) like the Marx Brothers or Mr. Bean. I also enjoyed America, but since I didn’t pay attention in History class, I don’t always get the jokes.
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Cliff Reply:
February 6th, 2005 at 9:19 am
You think you’re scared!
Sunny/Dark: 3/10
drY/Gross: 4/10
Traditional/Offbeat: 3/10
Active/Passive: 3/10
Also John, People seek me out to tell me stories because I do a lot of M.C. work. It’s amazing the number of jokes that are needlessly gross. Some of my best stories are just ‘cleaned up’ tasteless jokes. I’ve had a lot of people say “I couldn’t believe you were going to tell that, but you changed the joke. And it worked.”
Also to me humor can’t be too predictable. You have to have the audience leaning very hard one direction before you pull the table, they’re leaning on, out from under them. cliff
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Try out the the “What D&D Character Are You?” quiz; both fun and quite introspective. For example, I score with Neutral Good alignment, meaning that I always do what I consider to be the right thing to do, whether or not that agrees with laws or customs. Seems pretty accurate to me, and the alignment system is actually a pretty good manner to look at many issues. (I’m not a D&D player (though I do like a good RPG); just found the quiz interesting and insightful.)
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I think you mean this one, and it was nifty. Thanks for the tip.
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