History Main / NoSenseOfHumor

* ComicBook/XMen: Professor X and Magneto are frequently flanderized as no-nonsense extremists. James Macavoy's performance is the first attempt to move away from this, although one might simply assume that as he gets older, he will get more serious. Also, Ian Mc Kellen gave Magneto a deadpan, cynical sense of humor which was expanded on by Michael Fassbender.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims''

** Another artificial intelligence, SAM, in ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', also struggles with humor, mostly limited to telling very stale jokes that it looked up on the Extranet somewhere ("Why don't Thresher Maws eat clowns? Because they taste funny."). Its creator ordered it to "work on them". SAM does a bit better with sarcastic humor, though whether its doing that on purpose or just making deadpan comments that sound funny is unclear.

** And in ''The Sims 4'', as of the ''Get Famous'' expansion, famous Sims have a chance of getting the game quirk, A Serious Actor, after performing a dramatic gig. Any funny or mischievous actions performed on Sims with this quirk will fail and cause them to become angry.

** He was well-known for having the sense of humor of an underripe potato. They used to use him as a sort of barometer for the quality of their ideas; if he liked it, they were off the mark. Selzer was, in fact, the specific genesis of the cartoon "WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs", when he barged into a brainstorming session and declared, sans all provocation, that bullfights weren't funny, and there were to be no cartoons about them. They made the cartoon anyway, the argument being that Selzer had, in Creator/ChuckJones' words, "never been right about anything yet."

* Teddy Lindsey in ''Series/{{JAG}}''
-->'''Admiral Brovo''': ''Don't worry, Teddy. Junior officers get thrown to the sharks first. And lieutenant Rabb is the one who's sailing into harm's way''.
-->'''Commander Lindsey''': ''Yes, sir''.
-->'''Admiral Brovo''': ''Harm's way? Lieutenant Rabb's first name is Harm''.
-->'''Commander Lindsey''': ''Oh! Oh, yes, sir''.
-->'''Admiral Brovo''': ''You need a sense of humor, Teddy, otherwise people are gonna think you're a [[AcceptableTargets lawyer]]''.
-->'''Commander Lindsey''': ''I am a lawyer, sir''.

* At the 2005 Academy Awards, host Creator/ChrisRock joked that Creator/JudeLaw was in "every movie" released that year, remarking "Who ''is'' this guy?" and implying that Law was a low-rent Creator/TomCruise. Creator/SeanPenn later responded with dead seriousness, "In answer to our host's question, Jude Law is one of our finest young actors." After this, it became a bit of a RunningGag for people to poke fun at Penn's apparent lack of humor. ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did an entire sketch about this called "Sean Penn's Celebrity Roast", in which Penn [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely misses the point]] of the roast and acts annoyed at the comedians making fun of their fellow celebrities.

* At the 2005 Academy Awards, host Creator/ChrisRock joked that JudeLaw was in "every movie" released that year, remarking "Who ''is'' this guy?" and implying that Law was a low-rent Creator/TomCruise. Creator/SeanPenn later responded with dead seriousness, "In answer to our host's question, Jude Law is one of our finest young actors." After this, it became a bit of a RunningGag for people to poke fun at Penn's apparent lack of humor. ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did an entire sketch about this called "Sean Penn's Celebrity Roast", in which Penn [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely misses the point]] of the roast and acts annoyed at the comedians making fun of their fellow celebrities.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Stannis Baratheon, though in reality, a lot of his lines end up becoming humorous simply because of just how immaculately deadpan he delivers basically everything.
--> '''Stannis:''' ...then we ate the cats; Never liked cats, so fine. I do like dogs, good animals, loyal. But we ate them...

** Lt. Hauk thinks he has a sense of humor, but really doesn't. His attempts to be funny on the radio generate a FlatWhat from his colleagues, and piles of hate mail from the audience.

* A common misconception of Creator/AynRand is that she had no comprehension of humor, despite [[DeadpanSnarker a talent for devastatingly on-target satire]]. She was sometimes LateToThePunchline, perhaps as a result of early trauma, and part of it could have been that she was a native Russian-speaker operating in an English-speaking environment; plays on words and things like that may have just sailed right past her. She was prone to quips however and sometimes demonstrated a biting sardonic wit. For instance, whilst being pestered by a fly on a talk show, she commented "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Perhaps it's protesting]]."

** Surprisingly enough, the original version of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. In his first appearance, he was a permanently smiling psychotic gangster with ''no sense of humor whatsoever''. In his first fight with Batman, Bats is actually the one making puns, while Joker is screaming [[IllKillYou "I am going to kill you!"]]

* An {{egregious}}ly cliché [[StrawmanPolitical blanket accusation]] of detractors of BlackComedy. It will usually be coupled with some ranting about PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and a bit of ParodyRetcon sprinkled in.

''Film/BladeTrinity'': Blade considers Hannibal King a constant annoyance due to King's sense of humor. In the comic books, King is a much more serious character; in fact more serious than Blade is in the comics. King's portrayal as a nonstop joke machine in the movie could be due to casting.

* ComicBook/XMen: Professor X and Magneto are frequently flanderized as no-nonsense extremists. Patrick Stewart's performance is the first attempt to move away from this, although one might simply assume that as he gets older, he will get more serious. Also, Ian Mc Kellen gave Magneto a deadpan, cynical sense of humor which was expanded on by Michael Fassbender.

* Major Neuheim of ''PrivateSchulz'' is a PointyHairedBoss, not to mention a Nazi, who is totally lacking in warmth and anything resembling a sense of humor. However, his humorlessness is [[TheComicallySerious itself a source of comedy]].

* Chaos from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty''. Tragic example. While seeking help, she saw a comedy scene where the protagonist says he doesn't want any angeloid. That has... consequences.

* Idol Hooves in ''FanFic/TheChangelingOfTheGuard''. Having been banished from TheHive by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Chrysalis]], he travels Equestria, seeing the outside world for the first time. His first exposure to humor is met with a lot of confusion, but he eventually comes to find the concept fascinating, though he doesn't really understand [[PungeonMaster Wasta's]] jokes.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Percy Weasley "wouldn't recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby's tea cozy." He does have a bit of a harshly sarcastic moment in ''Deathly Hallows,'' though, which is remarked upon with astonishment by his siblings [[spoiler:one of whom is tragically killed seconds later]].

* A common misconception of AynRand is that she had no comprehension of humor, despite [[DeadpanSnarker a talent for devastatingly on-target satire]]. She was sometimes LateToThePunchline, perhaps as a result of early trauma, and part of it could have been that she was a native Russian-speaker operating in an English-speaking environment; plays on words and things like that may have just sailed right past her. She was prone to quips however and sometimes demonstrated a biting sardonic wit. For instance, whilst being pestered by a fly on a talk show, she commented "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Perhaps it's protesting]]."