It's interesting how one's sense of humor developes from childhood on. I remember watching The Three Stooges every afternoon when I was a kid, and loving it, but don't remember actually laughing out loud at them until I reached adulthood. Notice how some kids shows are appreciated much more by adults? Rocky and Bullwinkle come to mind. When I was in high school, I began to "get" humor that didn't strike my funny bone earlier. I noticed that when I started to watch The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, and became a big fan of the show. All of a sudden I was laughing at things that only a year or two earlier went over my head, or just didn't seem funny. A few things were funny to me all along - Buster Keaton, who is my all-time favorite film comedian, Chaplin, Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields. So, what makes me laugh now? Reading The Onion, watching Monty Python, the Zucker/Abrams movies: Airplane! The Naked Gun, etc., The Three Stooges (w/ Curley), Keaton of course, Fields, Marx Bros., witty humor, good slapstick that's not too broad, deadpan humor, such as Christopher Guest movies, subtle humor, Mystery Science Theatre, Jewish humor, Irish humor, just whatever strikes me as funny. Most TV situation comdies of the last twenty years don't, with a few exceptions. Anyone ever see the six - the only six - episodes of Police Squad? Incredibly funny. Too good for mainstream American sitcom tastes at that time.

-chanteyranger