I've been called many things.......

[KevinP73]

but what the hell is a "dry sense of humor"? Is ther a "wet sense of humor"? and if so what does it sound like?

[NineOhOne]

Think British comedy...

A very good sense of humour/fun where the humour is not immediately obvious at first and is usually used by someone who appears to be serious at the same time. It requires some work from the listener. Only a part of the joke is presented and the rest, you have to surmise. The challenge is to "get it" in the way it was intended.

It is sense of humor mainly relying upon sarcasm, timing, and wit. Can easily come across as seeming smart-assed, *****y, or just plain difficult. People in the possession of such generally don't laugh at other's witticisms, even if they think they're funny. Dry, like a fine wine, and easy going but not everyone appreciates them. It is also known by other names like deadpan - a form of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or facial expression, usually speaking in a monotonous manner.

[audiman08]

I would say the opposite of a dry sense of humor would be slapstick or goofy humor, like these guys..

[HardDrive]

Sanjay and Tanjay save up their money, and come into New Delhi for a big night on the town. They want to impress the ladies, so they decide to rent a car in the hopes of looking like players.

They go to the car rental agency, and the man informs them that they don't have nearly enough money to rent a car. Sanjay and Tanjay are distraught. The man takes pity on them, and offers to rent them a camel. The boys explain that they don't know how to ride a camel. The man says, "Nothing to worry about. This camel is trained for city life. Just tell it where to go. It stops at red lights, and goes on green. Easy". They agree and set out for the night club district of New Delhi.

About an hour later, they return, without the camel.

"Where is my camel?!" the rental agent exclaims.

"Well", says Sanjay, "We came to a redlight, and a man shouted 'Hey, look at the two a55h0les on that camel!' We got off to take a look, and the light turned green."

[ben parrish]

Leslie Nielsen= Dry sense of humor

[fintstone]

Usually that means...what you say is more caustic (or odd) than funny or...they are not sure when you are making a joke or are serious.

[Dueller]

Think of your wit as cerebral humor....as opposed to palsy.

[tabs]

But never smart...

[KevinP73]

Originally Posted by tabs

But never smart...

I've been called "smart ass" I figure that's half way there.

[GH85Carrera]

I am called a smart ass all the time. I never did figure out if "smart ass" was a insult or compliment. I like to think I am smart all over.

[Tobra]

better a smart ass than a dumb ass

[BeyGon]

I was called a Jackass the other day, not by rwebb here, but I haven't heard that since I was in grade school, so I said, "now look dick breath" and he got offended. huh.

[Heel n Toe]

Steven Wright is a purveyor of dry humor... check him out on YouTube if you don't know who he is. Extreme monotone, deadpan delivery.
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I was going 70 miles an hour and got stopped by a cop who said, "Do you know the speed limit is 55 miles per hour?" "Yes, officer, but I wasn't going to be out that long."

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

My mechanic told me he couldn't fix my brakes, so he made my horn louder.

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... when I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I have a switch in my apartment... it doesn't do anything. Every once in a while, I turn it on and off and on and off and on and off. One day I got a call... it was from a woman in France. She said "Cut it out."

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, "Hey, the sign says you're open 24-hours." He said, "Yea, but not in a row."

I was born by C-section ... but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read."

I had to get a new shadow. My old one wasn't doing what I was doing anymore.

My house is on the median strip of a highway. You don't really notice, except I have to leave the driveway doing 60 MPH.

For a while I didn't have a car... I had a helicopter... no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running.

I had a dream that all the victims of The Pill came back... boy, were they mad!

My girlfriend and I went on a picnic. I don't know how she did it, but she got poison ivy on the brain. When it itched, the only way she could scratch it was to think about sandpaper.

[Heel n Toe]

I replaced the headlights on my car with strobe lights. Now it looks like I'm the only one moving.

One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building and turned it and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here." Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and ran outside and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.

I hooked up the accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

You know how it feels when you're leaning back in a chair and you lean too far back and you almost fall over backwards, but then you catch yourself at the last second? I feel like that all the time.

[Gogar]

Here's some dry English humour.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-politics-religion/515056-ricky-gervais-creationism.html

[futuresoptions]

Here's some dry German humor...

[71T Targa]

At lunch my friend told me he made some wood duck houses over the weekend.


I asked 'What else would you make them out of?'

[cwiert]

Mitch Hedberg was my favorite. One of my favorite Hedberg jokes...

"It takes forever to cook a baked potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes, I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one. By the time it's done, who knows?"

[Laneco]

Originally Posted by futuresoptions

Here's some dry German humor...

okay THAT was funny!

angela

[Heel n Toe]

One more from Steven Wright... we used the we/us version of this on our answering machine for awhile with predicable results...

"Hello, this is the answering machine in my car. I'm home now, so I can't take your call, but if you'll leave your name and number, I'll call you when I leave."