Comments on: Who enjoys humor more? conservatives or liberals?

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By: george thomas

george thomas — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:06:07 +0000

In the same vein, didn’t Winston Churchill say: “It is not true that most stupid people are Tories; what I said was that most Tories are stupid people.”?

By: jbuford39

jbuford39 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:03:03 +0000

I think the wrong question was asked and tested for. The question should have been: who is LESS likely to have a sense of humor, a lib eral or a conservative.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:58:41 +0000

I’m an independant and I didn’t find most of them funny for one reason. It’s a mean kind of funny. Funny at someone else’s expense is all too common.
The funniest one was by the moldavian about the drinking being replaced with books. It was situational and told a story rather than playing on stereotypes and labels.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:15:51 +0000

“There are no jokes about liberals, because being a liberal is no laughing matter.”

It looks like this study hit a little too close to home for some here.

Even a man of the world who has heard every joke and laughs at nothing can objectively rate these jokes and place them on a scale of 1 to 9.

There is a deep insecurity involved when someone doesn’t find these jokes funny and then worries that it questions the validity of their life.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:22:32 +0000

I’m noticing the largest difference is in the “racial” category. Liberals, I would guess, have a stronger sense of social equality, and might unconsciously inhibit themselves from finding racial jokes funny, along with jokes poking fun at gays, immigrants from various countries, and other such groups.

Is it possible that asking the participants’ their political beliefs prior to showing them the jokes caused the liberals to be primed to reject humor associated with such categories? I’m curious if the racial jokes show the same large difference if the participants are asked their political beliefs after rating the jokes.

By: es

es — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:22:57 +0000

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By: Sean Freeder

Sean Freeder — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:03:13 +0000

I think this data might be more useful if you broke it down by age, as I think that may be a much bigger factor than ideology. As someone under 25, I almost immediately identified most of those jokes as the kind I would receive in a crappy e-mail forward, complete with cheesy clip art. I have a hunch that my generation is more likely to be turned off by those jokes, and seeing as young respondents are much more likely to be liberal, it may have skewed the results. If you were to compare liberals vs. conservatives over the age of 30, I would expect the results to be much closer.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:47:27 +0000

What about the one about the guy with no sense of humor who always tells jokes, and the other hilarious guy who is genuinely enormously funny and doesn’t know any jokes?
Rating jokes highly might actually demonstrate a person’s un-funnyness.