True or False: The More Intelligent A Person Is, The Harder It Is To Humor Them/Make Them Laugh

[Ray D’Angelo Harris]

Let's use highest level Education and critical thinking abilities as our baseline for "intelligence" in this thread.

Intelligent people(highly educated, critical thinkers) are MORE likely to laugh at a funny movie or joke because they "get it" and are able to comprehend the humor/punchline or whatever, better/faster than average intelligence people?

Or....

Intelligent people(highly educated, critical thinkers) are LESS likely to laugh at a funny movie or joke, also because they "get it", but it's dull to them. The wit behind it isn't sharp enough to cut through their intelligence and hit their "that was funny" button.

Is a person of average intelligence more likely to be ROFL at a funny movie/joke, or less likely because they often won't be able to comprehend the humor in it quick enough to trigger a laugh?

I know Education and critical thinking aren't the end all/be all measures of human intelligence, I'm just using it as a baseline for the sake of the thread.

 

[Gunz&Butta]

I think highly intelligent people appreciate a different kind of comedy and humor.
Shows like Martin might not really impress as much as Dave Chappelle or George Carlin performance.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

lack emotional intelligence, nerd brehs

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

depends on the humor
for example I never really liked the Scary Movie franchise, felt too juvenile even when I was a teenager

but I also never got into Seinfeld
but I love Curb your enthusiasm and it's always sunny

Smart people are better at black comedy/gallows humor for sure.

 

[doublecheese]

I think its the opposite, smarter people are usually more humorous in my experience. Dumb people are extremely literal and its harder to joke w/ them.

 

[The Guru]

I think how seriously you take yourself plays a role more than intelligence.

 

[jay83]

I think its the opposite, smarter people are usually more humorous in my experience. Dumb people are extremely literal and its harder to joke w/ them.

Dumb people you have to spell it out for them. But it takes a skill to be able to reach both to be honest.

 

[cyndaquil]

Dumb people dont understand jokes to even laugh at em.

 

[UpAndComing]

It's the exact opposite. An intelligent person can see different nuances of a joke that they can laugh at

A dumb person at times are clueless to see a joke when it's obvious right in front of them

 

[Novembruh]

its a sine wave.

smart people are more likely to laugh at the same dumb shyt idiots laugh at than pseudo-highbrow comedy.

 

[Knowledge]

You ever knew someone who was really dumb and every time a joke was said within a group everyone would laugh but that one person would like like “huh” “wha..” I don’t get it. Yeah

 

[Ray D’Angelo Harris]

I think its the opposite, smarter people are usually more humorous in my experience. Dumb people are extremely literal and its harder to joke w/ them.

And they're always mad

 

[Diddly Drogba]

True that's why I never laugh

 

[010101]

AHA*

 

[Ray D’Angelo Harris]

True that's why I never laugh