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

Grandfather, Uncles, Father...all story tellers and all quick witted...get them altogether and in their cups and the shite a 8 year old boy would hear would make sailors of 30 years blush. My grandfather and one uncle were wannabe gangsters....ran a pay day car lot and a floating poker game in Atlanta and the Anniston Alabama area. Grandfather also owned a bar near the steel mill in Atlanta (Atlantic Station now). I spent many hours in that bar, at that car lot and car auctions and working those card games when I was a kid....the men in all those places either great storytellers or a story in and of themselves. My great grandmother lived in mid town and her neighbor upstairs was a pretty notorious pimp in Atlanta....I also spent a lot of time with her, him and his stable. I hung out on the corner with his stable many nights. The shite those women would tell about men is the funniest shite one can imagine...and their timing was IMMACULATE....I ain't ever been one to think women aren't funny cause those whores were the funniest people I ever met in my life....it was like having 7-8 Richard Pryor's on one street corner.

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Richard Pryor (That N* is Crazy)

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That record did more for race relations in the United States than every politician and civil rights activist combined....

Adolph Hitler.

Most people think he was just a great painter.

But his humor was always well executed.

Sam Kennison
George Carin
Eddie Murphy
Richard Pryor

It is 100% what is wrong with me

The ability to step back from life and objectively observe- - it came naturally as a coping mechanism

Life. Just seeing the funny sides of situations.

WWII documentaries and practicing sheltering from nuclear war under my Live Oak Elementary desk when I was 7 years old.

Lots and lots of trauma, lol

I think genetics and how you were reared.
Some folks (In Laws)are always serious others are joking constantly.