Thread 213427367

Is it true that they don't understand sarcasm?

>>213427367 (OP)
Not necessarily in the same way an English speaker would but they do use it sometimes.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of comedy. There’s a reason why British comedy is shit and unfunny.

>>213427416
>Sarcasm is the lowest form of comedy.
Lower than physical comedy and toilet humor?

>>213427416
Sarcasm isn't comedic. It's often used to make an indirect point, or to express disinterest or rebuking. Nobody laughs at sarcasm.
Puns are the actual lowest form of humor. Everyone else agrees.

>>213427367 (OP)
Sarcasm is not funny. It's a coward way to show who you really are

>>213427448
Slapstick is cool it's like the only humor that doesn't need translation

>>213427448
Yeah. It just shows those comedians are lazy and not willing to put in the work. Japanese styles of comedy will never be allowed in your country because of muh human rights, decency or whatever.

>>213427416
peak japanese “comedy” is literally just watching a guy trip over a table or doing le silly voice

>>213427367 (OP)
with the exception of askenazim, non anglos in general can't into humor

>>213427367 (OP)
>Is it true that they don't understand sarcasm?
What compel you to believe that?

>>213427416
True British comedy sucks but Jap humor is no better. Jap humor is just getting hit in the balls while failing to say tongue twisters as a reaction cam is in the top right corner.

>>213427416
>jap talking about comedy
lmaooooooo
Your comedy fucking sucks. Literally the equivalent of American fart jokes in the 90s but you're stuck on stupid shit (tripping stuff, "pranks", omg Le pantsu followed by a slap by the girl)

black people understand sarcasm?

Each country has each type of jokes other people don't get it, but you guys really love to talk about American jokes, British jokes and Japanese jokes because these are the only jokes globally consumed.
You guys don't even know what Indian jokes, Indonesian jokes, or Chilean jokes obviously because their humour are too irrelevant.

>>213427628
>Indian jokes
genuinely well-thought out kino. i’m sure someone on here has one of those insane indian comedy webms
>Indonesian jokes
just sex jokes innit
>Chilean jokes
very sexist or racist jokes

>>213427367 (OP)
I like it, but yep, sarcasm is not the mainstream here imo as long as I observe sns like yahoo comments

>>213427367 (OP)
Yes, same with Americans.

>>213427416
pinnacle of comedy is puns

>>213427367 (OP)
It's too hard for eastern asian to comprehend it

>>213427518
You just don't understand the Japanese high comedy that dares to insert old gags, unfunny reactions, and cliches to get laughs during the subtle developments that lead up to it, unless you grew up in Japan.

Japanese have low verbal IQ due to confucious culture labeling argument as a taboo (as it disrupts social harmony). That means they're great at making Toyotas and Switch games but not very good at creative writing or comedy.

Meanwhile the Jews are verbal IQ masters: they're the ones in Hollywood after all.

>>213427661
>genuinely well-thought out kino. i’m sure someone on here has one of those insane indian comedy webms

I hate to admit this but they do understand Western culture a shit ton better than any other Asian. For example, the timmy cope makes me think of Timmy Turner from Fairly Odd Parents and that's exactly the image they want to project in that meme.

>>213427367 (OP)
if you want to understand japanese humor you need to watch japanese comedy shows
a lot of it is just
>slapstick
>haha gay people funni
>[incomprehensible wordplay] because I can't actually speak japanese and it doesn't translate well, but somehow it's the funniest shit ever to the japanese audience

>>213427367 (OP)
>sarcasm
We say It's usually
For example

"Your head is very light"

It's funny right?

>>213430726
see this is exactly what I'm talking about
it's probably funny in Japanese but for the rest of us that sentence doesn't make any sense

>>213430723
I've found a few youtube channels in Japanese that I find absolutely hilarious and I don't understand why that format doesn't exist in the west. They don't use slapstick or use random people as the butt of their joke. Just overall funny comedy sketches with rapid speech and fast progression of a bizarre and awkward situtation without relying entirely on one joke and a comedically timed punchline.

>>213430771
Maybe you get mad,
You need to dive into the water for take off the mad
(`∇`)HAHAHA

>>213432331
I didn't get this at all so I laughed because of that

>>213427367 (OP)
I don't think it's true. There are multiple terms for sarcasm in Japanese.

くそ丁寧, for when someone is excessively polite to show their displeasure, is a type of sarcasm I see quite often. It's a little like how in the west, if someone tells you something that's so obvious you feel insulted by it, you might say, "Wow, thank you for taking the time to tell me! I had no idea!"

>>213432622
この度は貴重なお話をお聞かせいただき、誠にありがとうございます。おかげさまで、私の理解が深まり、大変感謝しております。今後とも何卒よろしくお願い申し上げます

>>213432826
Y-you too.

>>213432331
LOOL very good ^^

>>213427449
it can be funny though, just watch top gear. and during an exercise a girl behind me was giggling when i said "i would have 100% solved this myself"
but why nips can't into it with their culture of passive aggression, i don't really understand. they're not that different in concept

>>213427367 (OP)
I don't understand sarcasm
However, this is because I'm autistic, not because I'm Japanese.

>>213429074
mogs tranime

>>213427367 (OP)
I did once see a reupload of this in Japanese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
The author of whom believed it a real interview with a politician, I thought that was funny.

>>213433685
I could have thought that was real, and I don't even have the language barrier as an excuse.

>>213433503
All japanese seem autistic

>>213434127
They seem normal to me.

>>213434160
Same, but that's because I am also autistic

>>213434179
Me too (￣▽￣;)

>>213427367 (OP)
>>213427518
Americans always speak like a spam bot.
Are you even a real human being?

>>213427449
Puns and wordplay are the highest form of comedy.
The lowest form of comedy is repetition. That shit that stand up comedians like kevin heart use as a formula. That thing where you establish something mildly amusing early in the set only to bring it up a couple of more times but particularly at the end again so that the audience's brains go "i remember that" and then you get automatic laughs. It's not even comedy, it's manipulation.

>>213434382
>Puns and wordplay are the highest form of comedy.
Japanese are masters at this. We can now establish Japan as master of comedy.

>>213434382
amy schumer overly using the word "pussy" is imo the lowest of the low
>pussy
>am i funny yet

>>213434430
it's something that doesn't translate at all so i'm clueless. that being said, apparently they also use a lot of slapstick and juvenile garbage for kids because dark humour is taboo and apparently sarcasm they don't get
PSG and grand blue can be somewhat funny but again, it's slapstick
i got my info from youtube anime and /wsg/ so take my hot takes with a grain of salt

>>213427367 (OP)
yes. Just the other day I posted a sarcastic comment on X on a video about gaijin misbehaving by praising multiculturalism for Japan and they started attacking me because they truly believed I meant it.

>>213436143
Sarcasm works poorly across cultures because it's harder to know what is within the norm what tone makes for good sarcasm.

>>213430560
You might be into something here. Japanese language indeed have sarcasm, but perhaps it is considered too spicy for comedy. Sarcasm might be more used to insult or taunt.

>>213427367 (OP)
They do and use it to make snarky comments. It's usually:
>sarcastic comment + emoji with wholesome smile and slight blush