How does humor change from country to country?

Yes, here in Spain they enjoy official jokes much more than monologue style comedians like they have in the UK and USA. Here in Spain they also enjoy cruel and slapstick humor a lot more too.

in the UK i find they like sarcasm and play on words, in the Netherlands they seem to like dry humor and strange situations. in Japan they like again cruel slapstick humor. so yea i think it changes a lot.

but yea, here in Spain its quite strange. its only just now that we are starting to get monologue comedians, before they just used to come out and tell a list of jokes.

I saw a study on this a few years ago and it found that humor does change from country to country as well as region to region (like southern americans and northern americans). The study also said that some jokes are funny everywhere. They joke they said was funny everywhere was the one about the guys that go hunting and the one hunter falls over like he’s dead. The other hunter calls 911 and the operator tells him to make sure his friend is dead and then he shoots him and says ok.

I think the reason they enjoy the self-depreciating humor in Japan so much is because they have so much “groupthink” where the group is so much more important than the individual.

Though I’ve always lived in the US, I prefer the dry dark humor of the UK so much more.

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Yesterday I taught the guy I like from Belgium how to form a NOT joke and the significance it had on lots of people’s childhoods. His response was like…oh that was similar to what I was saying…..

but it really wasnt. So I had to make the sound….insert joke….Naaaauuuught!!! Im still not sure if he gets it.

I would be very interested to see what people around the world think of (my favorite comedian) George Carlin, the reason i say this is after years of listening to his material over and over again, i find his shows tend to have something for everyone. he does play on words, he does observational stuff, he does long monologues as well as one liners, he has sarcasm, he touches on problems and speaks the truth from time to time, he says things that bring up violent and cruel mental images and more or less touches on every single type of humor you can think of.

@poisonedantidote I never knew what the Netherland’s or Spain’s humor was like…interesting. @SarasWhimsy I heard about that joke. I didn’t think it was particularly ‘laugh out loud’ funny but nonetheless good.

I’ll go with dark & dry, think Blackadder, Little Britain, Fawlty Towers. The French just don’t get any jokes and don’t mention the war when joking with a German. I think the American’s nailed it with Seinfeld, I love that show.