Humor Snobs?

"Well now what's so funny?"

"You are, Max. Expensive but really funny."

        -The Sound of Music 

Sometimes I think our family is comprised of a group of humor snobs. We are a funny family. We laugh far too much when we get together. There are several lead humorists, several wits, and a whole group of other people to laugh at our jokes and witticisms. But Sarah and I have noticed a startling trend...

We don't laugh at things everyone else is laughing at...

Take the latest example: That Messy Mondays "7 Lies About Homeschoolers" video that has been circulating...I had no interest in watching it. Sarah watched it and laughed once. Everyone else in our circles and even not in our circles was dying of laughter. We smiled...mildly. Sometimes even Tim Hawkins over does it and we find ourselves tolerating the howls of laughter rising from the crowd....so what is up with that? We're starting to feel bad for our reluctance. You might say, "Well then, perhaps you don't have a sense of humor!"

But I would have to correct you. "Oh no, we just have an expensive sense of humor." We laugh often, but we laugh at what's really funny. When a person has real wit or real humor we are a pile of giggles. When it's original wit it's even better. And when it's original wit compiled with the knowledge of how to present the funny comment well, we die.

Not to slight anyone who liked the Messy Mondays fellow, but his video was based off of jokes and jibes I've heard since I was 4 years old. "Homeschoolers stay in their pajamas..." "Homeschoolers can't stand in lines..." we've heard it before, and it's just used up now. It's been touted among the masses of public-school neighborhood kids till you are just annoyed at their ignorance...and the fact that they think it's funny.

But it's not that we intentionally stick up our noses over "the common hoard." ;) Sarah and I actually feel bad that we don't find those sorts of things funny. It's a strange strange thing. :D

So what do we laugh at?

Randomness

Jostie Flicks

Uncle Billy's jokes in the Mitford Series

Dickens' characters

Accents (and good impressions of accents)

Wit. Real wit.

Bill Cosby

Each-other

Awkward moments

Characters (You know, those unforgettable people you meet in a store?)

Baby-laughter

Broadway songs

Misshaps

Comebacks

Witty Banter

And much much more. :)

What sorts of things do you laugh at? :)