my take on comedy

I love to laugh and I people who can bring that out of me (which isn't all that hard to do) I love too. I don't think my sense-of-humor is necessarily unique but not everything appeals to me.

For example, NEITHER of these people do it for me:

Something about them is too obvious. Too calculated. I don't like to know you intend to be funny, and that's what I get out these two.

You don't have to be stupid to be funny to me either. If you make a face and it's supposed to get me to laugh but what you actually did or said didn't strike my fancy, then I need more than your face to get me to that place where I'm in stitches.

Instead, I think the best humor is the kind where you have to pay attention. Where it's more about the inflection or the play-on-words than what's on the surface. It's smart, and there's a great payoff if you happen to get it. I like having to think a tiny bit. If you're challenging me, as a listeners, there's a good chance you challenged yourself in coming up with the joke. I respect that!

I seem to be attracted to black humor and satire...the latter especially. There's nothing more funny to me than you being able take something that's oh so true and blow it up so that people can't help but laugh at themselves for being duped into even dealing with it in the first place.

That's just me, though. If you're able to laugh at something, then that's good for you. We can communicate.

If I had my pick of the litter, though, I'd take Dave Chappelle this over those other guys anyday of the week.