re: Who Or What Helped Form Your Sense Of Humor?

Age and bitterness.

I have always seen and heard the absurdities coming from those around me. Maybe because I listen to what people are saying, not anticipating what they are saying, but what they really say. So I laughed a lot to myself.

I will not forget when a friend of mine in Fifth Grade asked the teacher, "How to you spell bench, you know, b-e-n-c-h?
I burst out laughing. No one else in a class of 25 thought it was funny except for Mr. Crockett. (She was a blonde FWIW).
My late MIL said, totally serious "I never farted until I was 65." Again I laughed.

Dad
Papaw
Stooges
Marx Bros
Mad Magazine
Daffy Duck

Beavis and Butthead and Dumb and Dumber. 90s humor

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Tits.

This is the answer.

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We must all admit that this is the tits.

And I heartily agree.

OP: Consumed comedy from the three TV networks, we had a couple Cosby albums in the house (“NOAH!”….), Jerry Clower albums, but the Dr Demento Radio Show really opened up a whole new world of comedy to me.

It was weekly for maybe two hours on (I think) Sunday night on one of the three potential AOR stations in NOLA. Maybe WRNO?

My dad was a clever soul and had the ability to really deliver a joke. I got the cleverness but not the presentation gene.

Too many sources to name them all.

Mad Magazine
Three Stooges
Laurel and Hardy
Our Gang
Bugs Bunny
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Red Skelton
Beverly Hillbillies
Laugh In
Mad Libs
National Lampoon
Monty Python
English comedies
Bob Newhart
Playboy
Etc.

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Those nun’s beat us so hard over nothing

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“nothing” =/= you touching yourself

You, you, you LIBERTINE! HEDONIST!

Johnny Carson