Laugh or Stay Serious? How Do You Act at a Comedy Show?

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The discussion revolves around participants' behaviors and attitudes towards laughter in comedy shows and online interactions. It explores the social dynamics of humor, seriousness, and personal reactions in both live and virtual settings.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express a tendency to remain serious at comedy shows, suggesting that laughter may undermine their concentration or perceived seriousness.
  • Others describe ironic laughter or scoffing as a way to critique the quality of comedy, indicating a desire to elevate comedic standards.
  • A few participants mention their personal experiences of observing others' reactions, noting instances of laughter that seem incongruous with the atmosphere.
  • There are humorous reflections on the nature of laughter online, with some questioning whether it holds the same significance as laughter in person.
  • Some participants highlight a selective approach to laughter, only responding to genuinely funny moments to avoid encouraging mediocre humor from friends.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants exhibit a range of perspectives on laughter, with no clear consensus on whether to laugh or remain serious in comedic contexts. Multiple competing views remain regarding the appropriateness and implications of laughter.

Contextual Notes

Some statements reflect personal assumptions about social norms and expectations in comedy settings, which may not be universally applicable. The discussion includes varying interpretations of humor and seriousness.

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Do you laugh if you go watch a comedy show in a theater especially if you sit at the front ? Or you just sit there motionless for people to consider you "serious" outside ?. :smile:

On the net, you are serious too ?
 
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I go to comedy movies and sit somewhere in the middle.

All through the movie, I'll make scoffing noises, and whenever someone laughs, I'll say (as loud as I can) things like:

"Oh yeah, that was real 'funny'" "Wow I couldn't see that one coming a mile away"

The outcome is the inevitable advancement of level of writing in the American Comedic Movie genre. I feel I am doing a service for the other patrons in the theater. The ushers never see my point.

And we are all so very serious here on the intrawebs.
 
I go to comedy shows to do some math. Sometimes I'm in the front and other times I'm hidden in the corner. I don't laugh because that ruins my serious level of concentration.
 
I went to a comedy show where no one laughed. It was about the time that I decided not to quit my day job.
 
I have a big mirror by my computer, so I never laugh when I'm online because I might see myself.
 
Is laughing on the Interwebs the same sound as one hand clapping?
 
JasonRox said:
I go to comedy shows to do some math. Sometimes I'm in the front and other times I'm hidden in the corner. I don't laugh because that ruins my serious level of concentration.

Galois, you're alive??
 
I shush people who laugh in theaters :devil:. I mean really, such childishness.
 
Interwebs! Aarrrgghh!
 
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The last time i had a good laugh was listening to Jasper Carrot or was it Blaster Bates.
 
  • #11
I'm laughing at all of you right now.
 
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Evo said:
Interwebs! Aarrrgghh!

I'm laughing because I got Evo. :smile:
 
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GeorginaS said:
Is laughing on the Interwebs the same sound as one hand clapping?

No, totally different - more like the top half of a tree falling in the forest.
 
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lisab said:
No, totally different - more like the top half of a tree falling in the forest.

I'd laugh if I wasn't trying to be serious on the outside. :rolleyes:
 
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I laugh ironically.
 
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Sometimes I see a woman right in the midst of the front seat laughing her stomache out, but her lips do not move, her belly looks like trembling, I doubt she is afraid of her cosmetics powder used to cover her face, so thick that she is scared it will fall off out of it to let seen the wrinkles. Don't know how her husband would feel at night.
A fat man with a yellow Tshirt sat nearby don't make a single move :smile:. Although the show makes me laugh my brain out, yeah yeah so good !
 
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I laugh, even when its not funny.
 
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My friends think that they are really funny so I have come to the point that I only laugh aloud if something is genuinely funny so as to keep people from believing that their mildly amusing quips are comedy genius. I also think it is funny to stare at someone straight faced just after they have made a joke.
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TheStatutoryApe said:
My friends think that they are really funny so I have come to the point that I only laugh aloud if something is genuinely funny so as to keep people from believing that their mildly amusing quips are comedy genius. I also think it is funny to stare at someone straight faced just after they have made a joke.
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Then point to your chest and say, "I'm laughing. In here."
 
  • #20
:cool: They don't quite laugh before the camera because they want to show they are matured, experienced for the joke to them is so much usual.
I am so socially high ranked! Here VIP :cool:
 

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