Which of these two things are what you look for when you say you like someone with a sense of humor?

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Cute_Miss_Laura · Accepted Answer

NEITHER! Since I've been back, and we've been speaking privately, I've told you that Dylan and I broke up and I'm now a guy named Lee, and in fact we're living together "temporarily" because of the protests on campus. it's important that I preface that because Lee has the greatest sense of humor of any human being I've ever met EVER!

I met Lee in several classes in undergrad, or I should say I saw him there, I only think we spoke once in my entire undergraduate education. Fast forward to three days after Dylan and I break up. I'm upset, things had been going poorly in our relationship for quite a while before we ended it, and I was having a coffee at one of the plastic picnic tables outside the coffee truck. At the time I was reading an economics book. I believe it was called Freakonomics. When Lee saw me reading the book, he began to pretend as if he was dictating a note for a patient after a therapy session. I can't remember what he said, and I don't have the sense of humor to make it funny, but it was like "patient has deluded herself into believing that economics books can be entertaining. Patient has taken to spending her free time reading economic books "for fun”. Patient seems sad, and is in desperate need of cheering up!” It was something like that but OMG it was SO funny the way he said it, as well as the words used which are not the same as the ones I just used.

Lee has made me laugh every day since! In fact, one of my greatest joys in life right now is that Lee has made me laugh every single day that we have been together WITHOUT telling me a single joke. He is just a genuinely sweet, kind, highly intelligent, caring man who has the ability to make me laugh, and make me feel better no matter how badly my day has gone. It is his sense of humor that has gotten me through some of my darker moments, and even when I'm mad at him that sense of humor of his, along with his genuinely caring nature reminds me of why I'm with him. (He also happens to be extremely, handsome, with eyes that are a stunning shade of hazel… So that also helps!) But number one was the sense of humor… THAT was what told me "this is the guy for me”.

Laura 🤗 🥰

Rosexøxø · Accepted Answer

When they can tell funny jokes. Cause at most times when they can dish them out, they understand comedy/humor, soooooo it means they’ll be able to process and have the chance to potentially laugh at mine.

I want to know they can say something funny or something I can agree with to be funny while in conversation cause then we can communicate on a good comedic level. They’ll say something. I’ll respond. Then I say something. And then they respond. But if they’re just UNFUNNY or socially awkward then there will be tension, no laughter, no belly aches, and no smiles.

I don’t demand people laugh at my jokes. They just don’t share MY sense of humor, but my sense is more specific. We can share a general sense like people falling or something. Who knows, baking fails? And so on.

It’s both, but if I choose someone who can tell jokes they almost always know how to catch em. Only the insecure try hards are the ones who are so self absorbed they can’t even understand comedy and they just practice, say everything sarcastically, or plagiarize other comedians and such. So those ones don’t have a real sense and understanding.

For me, the ‘sense’ IS the understanding and looseness, and it means they know it so well, they can do it themselves.

DrPepper12 · Accepted Answer

Comedy is a gift and the comedians are the societal canary in the coal mine for pushing boundaries and consciousness. It apropos that you asked this today. My favorite philosopher was born today. He did comedy as a side hustle. I miss George Carlin!

RebelinSteel · Accepted Answer

It’s a bit of both, them having a sense of humour, some sarcasm and the ability to laugh at each others random funny comments or jokes

PeachyPie93 · Answer

I need both. I like it best when we have a similar sense of humour it makes for a fun time even in the hard moments. Like when everything is going bad and having the worst go at things and they just crack a joke about the situation in play and it just helps make things lighter LOL

GOLDFISH_smile · Answer

I mean we enjoy the same kind of jokes. If something funny happens we can look at each other and know what joke we are thinking in our heads. Doesn't have to be ALL the same, but at least some. I can be friends with someone who doesn't like puns as long as they do like nonsense or something yknow?

mandyfire98 · Answer

Usually someone who can make me laugh or recognizes humor in others not necessarily me

OfMiceandMen · Answer

I like to cheer her up with my sense of humor when I can and when it's appropriate. I like when she can do the same thing for me.

DishLady · Answer

Sort of both… someone who gets you and is also personable in general… so basically similar sense of humor.

electromagnetic · Answer

I guess a bit of both really. I like someone who can make jokes at random and still be funny.

zagor · Answer

For the most part, neither. Someone who can appreciate irony and laugh at the foibles of life, who can appreciate the humor in situations and stories. That, much more than anything to do with jokes.

Peter_Penetrator · Answer

I have a crude, strange, fun sense of humor. If you don’t like my humor, then l can’t be myself around you.

menina · Answer

For me it's a little bit of both. I love being around people who can make me laugh.

petitedollbabee · Answer

A bit of both but mostly them being able to make me laugh.

WhitneySnow · Answer

I picked the second one but the third one is true too

Paul09 · Answer

Opps didn't notice the third option. Humour is a must for me in a relationship. I like to make people laugh. But I also like hen people make me laugh. Laughter is so awesome.

more_than_a_guy · Answer

Humor is both, how you tell jokes and how you receive them. I want my friends and partner to be funny themselves and also like my humor when I share itm

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Both are a bit equal

Wiredone · Answer

Both actually

llorando · Answer

A bit of both equally.

msc545 · Answer

I like people that tell funny jokes.

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