The, the once Facebook naysayer, is now a Facebook regular and regularly spends happy hours scrolling through and chortling at all the jokes that he finds funny.
It’s always nice to see a person laugh but let’s face it these jokes really only warrant a nod and a polite smile – and then only a few of them.
But no, my husband passes these un-funny jokes and cartoons onto his friends and, worse still, to me.
Just to put you in the picture: This is a man who likes The Three Stooges ie, finding comedy in one silly man awkwardly missing another silly man’s head with a bat or something. My husband will laugh with great gusto at these antics. But when I hit him with something I too find funny, his comeback is predictable. “Is it as funny as Seinfeld?” he will say.
In just a few words, he manages to slay Seinfeld and any American born comedy, most particularly shows that don’t involve bats and near misses.
Because the difference between us is that I don’t think I can ever find two men poking each other with bats remotely funny. And I can watch a Seinfeld episode and find parts of it quite funny (especially the episode about the soup kitchen).
It would be an understatement to say that we don’t share the same sense of humour.
And yet, despite his full acknowledgement that anyone who finds Seinfeld funny is missing something essential when it comes to humour, he persists in sending me seniors comics or strange pictures of people playing baseball.
He thrusts the pictures under my nose at regular intervals during the day. I have to scramble to find my glasses to read the repartee. I read it on cue and return his device. The polite person living inside me wishes she could pretend to be amused, perhaps letting a little giggle escape from the hand-covered mouth, but I can’t fake things.
The other reason for the glasses is to potentially find something I must have missed on first glance– something to warrant the keen comedic appreciation of my delighted husband.
The whole thing reeks of a comic sketch right there.
Perhaps the Stooge and Seinfeld show might provide its own fodder for a crazy cartoon on Facebook. Shove that in front of our eyes and let’s see which one of us finds it funny.
