Do Personality Types Have Different Styles Of Humor? | 10 Min Type Advice | S02:E06

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  • Cindy
  • May 6, 2022 at 5:32 pm

  I am an INFJ. My preferred humor is dry, clever wit. I don’t find physical/slapstick humor funny at all. My husband is an INTP. He has a similar preference to me in what he finds funny. We both love referential humor, as Antonia referred to it. We both like Monty Python. We both like Parks and Rec, though Ron Swanson is generally our favorite in that… again, kind of back to the more dry sense of humor. I find it interesting that Joel referred to his INFJ mother as liking “Beth Moore” kind of humor. I too was brought up in a similar culture and am an INFJ. While that style of humor is familiar to me and can maybe elicit a smile, I don’t find it truly funny. Generational, maybe? I am probably in the same age range as Joel and Antonia, so his mom would probably be roughly the same age as mine, and she, who I think was an ISTJ, found that kind of humor hilarious. My dad, probably an ENTP, was an amazing joke teller, and his humor tended more toward the dry, clever side.

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  • Bobby Young
  • May 6, 2022 at 1:17 pm

  Maybe this is equally about what certain types DON’T find funny.

  For example: I have noticed that ENFJ and INFJ types don’t seem to find humor in clips where people get hurt (getting racked by a bike, face planting against the ground, etc.) or jokes made at someone’s expense (pointing out flaws/insecurities of a person or group other than one’s own self or own group). Perhaps it is because this diametriaclly opposes nature of the Driver/Co-polot functions of Harmony & Perspectives. Being that these types tend to easily relate with others, whilst also understanding that in the moment, someone is suffering, the humor is over-ridden.

  However, the same types would likely find humor in jokes that poke fun at absurd situations which portend to disharmony or logical pattern recognitions leading to a punchline.

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  • Julie
  • May 6, 2022 at 2:33 am

  INFJ here – I have a very dry sense of humor, and love imagined scenarios that take things too far and get absurd (such as the movies don’t look up or the spy who dumped me). I also love goofy humor like the classic sitcoms- new girl, friends, parks and rec, the office

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  • Erin
  • April 15, 2022 at 2:31 pm

  I have been wondering about this humor question for some time. Thanks, INTJ, for asking it!

  My thoughts leaned more toward the functions that aren’t in our “car,” and that therefore might catch us by surprise (in that reversal-of-expectations way that creates humor).

  For me, an INFJ, I find randomness very funny: something that just comes out of left field and makes no sense. For my husband, an ESFJ, what’s funny is an imagined scenario taken to and beyond its logical conclusion.

  This is a sample size of 2, which I recognize. But to me, my humor sounds pretty Ne, and his sounds pretty Ni.

  I think it’s just too hard to look at what shows someone finds funny. Which bits in particular do they find funny? It might be different jokes for different folks! I loved Kung Pow, the comedy movie, when I was younger, and still recall lines often, but it wasn’t the absurdity that I found funny (like Antonia might, generally speaking). For me it was the bonkers translation jokes and photoshopped-in whales going down waterfalls. That kills me.

  Anyway, thanks again! This was a fun one.