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They say all humor has a bit of meanness in it. Others say humor helps cope with pain.
It's a natural given for humor to differ from one culture to another ... and it's logical to conclude that something funny in Bahia (Brazil) may differ from what's funny in Lagos.
Americans don't always find British humor ..funny.
And as the education system here in The States has purposely declined over the past 30 years, so has the quality and brilliance of black American humor. (Too many younger comedians think all they have to do is get on stage and sink deep into the gutter and they'll be "funny.")
(Richard Pryor may have been able to do it successfully make, but he was brilliant and he was doing social commentary that pulled the veil off race, sex, politics, and just about everything else. These "also-rans" don't have the sophistication to duplicate what he did.)
In a way it bothers me that younger, far less talented African Americans are exporting their gutter (trauma?) humor to stages in African nations.
Some things are universally funny amongst everyone on the planet ... but other things seem more specific.
How have black people in other countries throughout the Diaspora feel about styles of humor?
They say all humor has a bit of meanness in it. Others say humor helps cope with pain.
It's a natural given for humor to differ from one culture to another ... and it's logical to conclude that something funny in Bahia (Brazil) may differ from what's funny in Lagos.
Americans don't always find British humor ..funny.
And as the education system here in The States has purposely declined over the past 30 years, so has the quality and brilliance of black American humor. (Too many younger comedians think all they have to do is get on stage and sink deep into the gutter and they'll be "funny.")
(Richard Pryor may have been able to do it successfully make, but he was brilliant and he was doing social commentary that pulled the veil off race, sex, politics, and just about everything else. These "also-rans" don't have the sophistication to duplicate what he did.)
In a way it bothers me that younger, far less talented African Americans are exporting their gutter (trauma?) humor to stages in African nations.
Some things are universally funny amongst everyone on the planet ... but other things seem more specific.
How have black people in other countries throughout the Diaspora feel about styles of humor?
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He pokes fun at all different races, cultures, countries, etc 
