The Irish sense of humour

Balanadan

Let's not kid ourselves, it's far from the best in the world. I can't count the number of times I've been in the company of Paddy and Mick, or John and Mary, only for one of them the crack a joke and both burst out laughing when it's not remotely funny.

What can we do to improve this situation, if anything?

It goes a long way to explain why there's so many **** professional Irish comedians.

DrumSteve

How do you get to carnagie hall?

D Trent

Are you working hard .......or hardly working aaaaa hahaha

No sugar for me - I'm sweet enough ...laugh out loud

Sure if my aunt had a pair o balls wouldn't she be my uncle eh? 😂😂

pleas advice

DrumSteve wrote: »

How do you get to carnagie hall?

get those feckin Crunchies out of the car

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It's ok, I have my bike outside.

NOVA MCMXCIV

You know, the funny thing is.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

NOVA MCMXCIV wrote: »

You know, the funny thing is.

Your face is familiar.

BuboBubo

Those Gilly and Rob cards, and Hairy Baby t shirts kind of sum up the Irish sense of humour for me. Mildly amusing rather than hilariously funny.

BuboBubo

Chaim Beautiful Specialization wrote: »

It's ok, I have my bike outside.

No horse outside?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

BuboBubo wrote: »

No horse outside?

Not when there's a radio.

ArchXStanton

I beg to differ,I've met some funny funny b*stards in this country

tigerboon

No Fr Ted quotes yet

fryup

our humour is based on slaggin, gettin a dig in, putting others in their place

its to do with our devious mischievous nature dating back to our peasant ancestry

Father Hernandez

Balanadan wrote: »

Let's not kid ourselves, it's far from the best in the world. I can't count the number of times I've been in the company of Paddy and Mick, or John and Mary, only for one of them the crack a joke and both burst out laughing when it's not remotely funny.

What can we do to improve this situation, if anything?

It goes a long way to explain why there's so many **** professional Irish comedians.

Ahh... down with this sort of thing

Giraffe Box

fryup wrote: »

our humour is based on slaggin, gettin a dig in, putting others in their place

its to do with our devious mischievous nature dating back to our peasant ancestry

...whatever it is, it's not very funny.

shakeitoff

Irish humour is more based on being as mad as a hatter than actual funny quips, anecdotes, observations or however else you can be funny. This thread came up like a month ago basically, all my friends who are funny are gas men but they are just funny because they slag nonstop and have no boundaries, they aren't witty or anything.

Noveight

I don’t think a sense of “national identity” works in this case. There’s nearly 5 million of us and given how subjective humour is I don’t believe you can really come to a conclusion as to what the Irish sense of humour is.

Although we can all agree Alison Spittle is useless, thankfully.

TheValeyard

Our humour is fcuking awesome. How else could ya survive living on this island!

TheValeyard

Noveight wrote: »

Although we can all agree Alison Spittle is useless, thankfully.

She makes the rest of them seem like God's amongst men with the humour.

trashcan

tigerboon wrote: »

No Fr Ted quotes yet

Is our sense of humour small, or far away ?

tigerboon

trashcan wrote: »

Is our sense of humour small, or far away ?

Depends on your perspective......

fryup

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Our humour is fcuking awesome. How else could ya survive living on this island!

prozac ?

Balanadan

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Our humour is fcuking awesome. How else could ya survive living on this island!

Journey abroad frequently?

blinding

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Our humour is fcuking awesome. How else could ya survive living on this island!

Ya certainly need a sense of humour with Irish weather:eek:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Balanadan wrote: »

Journey abroad frequently?

There's hardly a country I haven't visited and not many beat the Irish for a sense of humour. But, like many things in life, a sense of humour isn't a national trait nor is it a measure of a country. You'll find people with or without a good sense of humour in most countries.

Yer Da sells Avon

blinding wrote: »

Ya certainly need a sense of humour with Irish weather:eek:

God, it's lovely out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bqnVnmXzw

blinding

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

God, it's lovely out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bqnVnmXzw

Great day Alright .

Esel

Chaim Beautiful Specialization wrote: »

Your face is familiar.

I think I knew your mother.

Pinch Flat

This thread is great craic. Laughing me ar$e off here.

SEPT 23 1989

There is a beautiful darkness to our humour that you won't find in many other places

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^

thats what we like to think, in other countries it would be classed as rude

RiderOnTheStorm

Tourist: Hey barman! How about some of that Irish wit?
Barman: Certainly sir, dry or sparkling?

blinding

Are we more happy go lucky that great wits .

We do a good bit of slagging and most of us are able to take it . We do know that it is abject failure to rise to the bait .

Carry

There is a difference between a sense of humour and the ability to tell jokes.

A sense of humour means not to take anything and mostly yourself too seriously and to see the funny side in everything untoward and in life's daily shíte.
I think the Irish are great with that kind of humour.

As for telling or inventing jokes, well... Paddy goes into a bar... yawn...

shakeitoff

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

There is a beautiful darkness to our humour that you won't find in many other places

People say this and what they really mean is compared to mainstream American comedies like the Big Bang Theory. What's so 'beautifully dark'about Irish humour? The Savage Eye is the best example of Irish humour btw, it's very on the nose but brilliantly self-deprecating. I think that's how our comedy differs from the Brits, ours is more slapstick and banal while there's is much more subtle.

SEPT 23 1989

shakeitoff wrote: »

People say this and what they really mean is compared to mainstream American comedies like the Big Bang Theory. What's so 'beautifully dark'about Irish humour? The Savage Eye is the best example of Irish humour btw, it's very on the nose but brilliantly self-deprecating. I think that's how our comedy differs from the Brits, ours is more slapstick and banal while there's is much more subtle.

Other way around that's why our comedians do so well over there

British comedy is very good we go a little bit better

McSavage is a genius not a popular opinion around here but it's true

The Savage Eye is a masterpiece

tigerboon

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

McSavage is a genius not a popular opinion around here but it's true

The Savage Eye is a masterpiece

Seen him in that little upstairs venue in Dublin a while back. Very good!

blinding

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Other way around that's why our comedians do so well over there

British comedy is very good we go a little bit better

McSavage is a genius not a popular opinion around here but it's true

The Savage Eye is a masterpiece

The Savage eye is a rip off of British comedy with an Irish Slant .

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^

but its still funny

anyway all comedy is a rip off of some other act, e.g. python > the goons

blinding

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^

but its still funny

anyway all comedy is a rip off of some other act, e.g. python > the goons

True enough , if you make a good enough job of it then a lot of people don’t notice .

I would say some of Dylan Moran's stuff is a derivation of Billy Connolly's stuff .

Do it well enough after a good period and ya might get away with it .

Little Britain was just a clever way of using Bernard Manning stuff but telling it from an angle of Bernard's Victims so that you could not be criticised . But it was still just Bernard Manning type material .

trashcan

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

McSavage is a genius not a popular opinion around here but it's true

The Savage Eye is a masterpiece

Jesus, no. Just no. As funny as a bad dose of diahorea, and seems like a total dick to boot.

Agricola

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

McSavage is a genius not a popular opinion around here but it's true

The Savage Eye is a masterpiece

Agree. The single greatest ingredient with McSavage is he doesn't give a fúck. He mercilessly rips into all the sacred cows in Irish society and you can tell hes doing it, not just to make a few quid, but because a lot of it really does boil his piss. Comedians with an axe to grind are usually a cut above the rest. I'm actually surprised RTE gave him the time of day such is their preference for safe establishment types.

Franz Von Peppercorn

D Trent wrote: »

Sure if my aunt had a pair o balls wouldn't she be my uncle eh? 😂😂

Transphobic.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Carry wrote: »

There is a difference between a sense of humour and the ability to tell jokes.

A sense of humour means not to take anything and mostly yourself too seriously and to see the funny side in everything untoward and in life's daily shíte.
I think the Irish are great with that kind of humour.

As for telling or inventing jokes, well... Paddy goes into a bar... yawn...

That’s right. We do have a sense of humour. I’ve met very few genuinely witty Irish people, though.

No Lee Macks are we.

fryup

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

No Lee Macks are we.

thank goodness for that, too shouty that guy

Graces7

the real joke is the Irish have no sense of humour, or fun.

Poor Uncle Tom

Graces7 wrote: »

the real joke is the Irish have no sense of humour, or fun.

Shur begorragh we don't, hehe haha hoho, we don't, who has time for that ****e with all the begrudgery and misery to contend with?

SirChenjin

Graces7 wrote: »

the real joke is the Irish have no sense of humour, or fun.

Thankfully, I know lots of people with a great sense of humour and fun. And they are Irish, as am I. Maybe it's a case of your sense of humour not being the same as ours?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

SirChenjin wrote: »

Thankfully, I know lots of people with a great sense of humour and fun. And they are Irish, as am I. Maybe it's a case of your sense of humour not being the same as ours?

Agreed. It's absurd to suggest that any nationality, as an unit, has no sense of humour. Styles and incidences of humour depend on sociological factors and differ from person to person. Thankfully humour seems to be a basic human instinct that looks set to last.

erica74

Balanadan wrote: »

What can we do to improve this situation, if anything?

Why do we need to improve the situation? It's not that serious, is it?

fryup

Graces7 wrote: »

the real joke is the Irish have no sense of humour, or fun.

are you irish?