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slimon11 -> crude humor (6/21/2008 1:02:14 AM)

Professed Christians, older grandpa types, teens...I can think of a man in about every group that finds crude humor funny. I am talking like Adam Sandler type humor. What's the appeal?



humbleinspirit -> RE: crude humor (6/21/2008 2:03:49 AM)

Depends on your definition, however I think it is just how men are wired and our sinful nature in general.



DreadPirateRandy -> RE: crude humor (6/21/2008 2:19:43 AM)

Well, Adam Sandler isn't funny.

I find intelligent, thoughtful wit more comical than cheap humor.



buckifn -> RE: crude humor (6/21/2008 7:05:32 AM)

I don't know- but there is a thin line between comedy and tragedy. I think Jeff Foxworthy is funny, but I don't listen to him a lot because his jokes along with most others are having a laugh at the expense of other's misfortunes.



Blazingson -> RE: crude humor (6/21/2008 11:30:50 AM)

I don't have a clue, I'm a 3 Stooges kind of guy.



colliefan -> RE: crude humor (6/21/2008 1:22:00 PM)

A boy who hasn't grown up.



Blazingson -> RE: crude humor (6/21/2008 4:47:30 PM)

The 3 Stooges is humor for all ages.



BlackCapnHarlock -> RE: crude humor (6/21/2008 6:48:27 PM)

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ORIGINAL: slimon11

Professed Christians, older grandpa types, teens...I can think of a man in about every group that finds crude humor funny. I am talking like Adam Sandler type humor. What's the appeal?


Some guys I work with like sharing their farts, and work on making them nastier and smellier by eating certain foods.

That's not my thing, but since the 3 Stooges days men have found, physical and crude humor funny.

Just part of our nature as the hunter, warriors that we were engineered after the fall of man to be.



APZR -> RE: crude humor (6/22/2008 3:17:02 PM)

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ORIGINAL: buckifn
jokes along with most others are having a laugh at the expense of other's misfortunes.


That's all jokes. A joke is funny because it has just a little element of truth... a glimpse into ironic and misplaced human behavior. Even the simple ones like:
"How do you keep a turkey in suspense?
I'll tell you tomorrow."
[sm=biggrin.gif]



ajlewis -> RE: crude humor (6/23/2008 7:39:10 PM)

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I can think of a man in about every group that finds crude humor funny
The thing I find troubling is that it seems to "work" for those guys. Some girls seem to love it and think its "cute".



APZR -> RE: crude humor (6/23/2008 10:47:05 PM)

Quick, some body pull my finger. [sm=icon_smile_sing.gif]



DaveW -> RE: crude humor (7/15/2008 12:56:25 PM)

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ORIGINAL: BlackCapnHarlock

since the 3 Stooges days men have found, physical and crude humor funny.
Shakespeare had some pretty ribald humor in his plays 400 years ago, so the 3 stooges are historically fairly recent.



NoShow -> RE: crude humor (7/15/2008 1:51:16 PM)

I've learned over the years that it's not gender specific. I've known many a females that laughed harder than I ever did, at crude humor.



terryjohn -> RE: crude humor (7/18/2008 4:05:00 PM)

I guess crudness has to be defined as just things we would rather as individuals not want to talk about or hear and in that case some are very situational. Hence, context does to a large extent determine the appropriateness of what is said and how it will be recieved. So you can only make jokes about our country, religion, gender, politics and ethnicity, if you are in fact one of us. You could say people who work in a sewage plant would have jokes that the rest of us would not find funny. In fact a friend told me once that while living in a poor country he once saw men cleaning a blocked sewer with their hands, and although it would disgust us, they had according to him so much fun throwing the contents of the blockage at each other.

Crudness and appropriateness are a choice and more appropriate for very, very specific groups or more appriate in some contexts than others. Unfortunately, when you broadcast such, you can not just target those individuals who would find them acceptable. I then think much of humour is simply saying that which is not predictable or unexpected.

I remember many years ago having lunch with my stepfather on the farm, and we invited a young shearer in to have lunch with us and during lunch the young man let out a string of bad language while sharing his views on politics. When this happened I looked at my elderly religious stepfather for some sort of guidance on how to take this and all I saw was the laughter in his eyes for the boy's inappropriateness so I too had to laugh.

Crudness is also culturally defined for once in Asia I saw a childrens program on TV where the children were learning the farting song and this was a government TV station.

In the end, we are only instructed to speak and behave as if Christ were present in us.



19ramman85 -> RE: crude humor (7/18/2008 5:13:26 PM)

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ORIGINAL: slimon11

Professed Christians, older grandpa types, teens...I can think of a man in about every group that finds crude humor funny. I am talking like Adam Sandler type humor. What's the appeal?


As someone from both sides of the fence ................ I haven't a clue!

And I know you were being nice, but Adam Sandler? ...... he couldn't hold a candle to most of the crude jokesters out there!

but I have found it rather intruegin, though - is how can I find some Christian humor ...... funny, and some, well- non Christian humor funny.
Now- if you could explain - That[/I] one.


-charles



OneJohn410 -> RE: crude humor (7/20/2008 4:10:23 PM)

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ORIGINAL: slimon11

Professed Christians, older grandpa types, teens...I can think of a man in about every group that finds crude humor funny. I am talking like Adam Sandler type humor. What's the appeal?


Hi Slimon11,
Crude humor is most likely the least heard type of humor in everyday life. I'll admit it, Adam Sandler is not my next door neighbor, so I don't get to hear how he lives a day-to-day life. What I do know of Adam is from his movies- I've never seen nor heard him in stand-up, or doing any kind of improv. That type of humor is planned to strike people as being funny, and maybe bring them back for a second showing of the movie, or a later purchasing of the DVD. It's a career. It's 'staged' to make money. I don't consider Adam Sandler to be a continuously crudely humorous guy, and I don't know how much of what he delivers is actually his. That goes for everyone on that genre of humor, which is usually a shock-response type humor.

The appeal of crude humor- I don't know. The appeal of any kind of humor is likely that there is not much of it in day-to-day living. Too much of it, and someone is going to take offense and try to get it to stop. Now, if you or I lived in a home where there was lots of crude humor, then more of a ho-hum attitude might be had at the cinema of a crude-humor movie. If you or I tried to stay away from that kind, and unexpectedly experienced it, then it's not something heard every day (no regrets here), and since it can match what we see on the screen- it's all manufactured to be funny to the masses. The appeal is that if it can be done well to those who like it, it means a desireable income and 'success' at what is done... more income for future performances, etc.

That's my two cents,
OneJohn410



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