History Main / NoSenseOfHumor

** And we german people think the english people have no humor or at least this special "English Humor"...

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** And we german think, the english people have no humor, or at least this specail "English Humor"...

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->'''Geordi:''' Data... I made that joke ''seven years'' ago.
->'''Data:''' [[LateToThePunchline I know! I just got it!]]
-->--''StarTrekGenerations''

!!Examples:

[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Light from ''DeathNote'' lacks any sort of sense of humor.
** Although he does make a [[CannotConveySarcasm "joke"]] about wanting to trade away half his life for shinigami wings.

* Creed Diskenth of ''{{Blackcat}}''
* Narumi from ''KarakuriCircus'' - which proves problematic because the only way to stop his IncurableCoughOfDeath is to make him laugh.

* Mikael from ''TenshiNiNarumon'' [[spoiler:...if we're not counting the last three or four episodes that is -- although in those episodes it's not what one would call 'a healthy sense of humor' either.]]

[[AC:ComicBooks]]

* Surprisingly enough, the original version of TheJoker falls under this trope. 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 [[{{ptitledoyhdqmn}} "I am going to kill you!"]]
** {{Batman}} himself sometimes falls under this trope, DependingOnTheWriter.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* In {{No Country For Old Men}}, according to Carson Wells the big problem with Anton Chighurh isn't that he is batshit insane, but that he lacks a sense of humor.
* The various {{Terminator}}s exhibit this behavior, being emotionless robots.
* Colonel O'Neil of ''{{Stargate}}''. Used for a joke in the [[{{StargateSG-1}} television series]] (see below).

* In {{Highlander}}, Kurgan accuses nuns of being this.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' novels, Granny Weatherwax understands humor on a conceptual level, but has absolutely no sense of humor and has no understanding of how or why jokes work.

* [[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.

* From MercedesLackey's ''[=SERRATed Edge=]'' novels, Unseleighe psychics have absolutely No Sense Of Humor, along with little comprehension of allegory and the imaginations of bricks. In one novel, they were driven insane trying to comprehend the lyrics of TheyMightBeGiants.
* From ''{{Animorphs}}'' - Andalites. All of them besides Ax.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* [[StarTrek Vulcans]] are renown for having NoSenseOfHumor, though many of them are {{Deadpan Snarker}}s instead.

* Castiel on ''{{Supernatural}}''
* Lampshaded on ''{{Criminal Minds}}'': Reid (falsely) calls Aaron Hotchner a narcissist as clue to where he is taken hostage. While figuring this out, Hotch asks the team what they consider his greatest folly. Spontanous answer by Prentiss: "You have no sense of humor!"
** Actually something of a subversion. Hotch does have a sense of humour; it's just so dry the Sahara looks like a swamp by comparison, and at this point Prentiss hasn't caught on to it yet.

* Sam the American Eagle from ''TheMuppetShow''.

* In early episodes of ''MorkAndMindy'', Mork identifies people making InUniverse jokes by saying "Oh, humor - Ar-Ar!" And almost as often he does that when people aren't joking.

* From ''[[{{ptitlelrjkuefg}} Les Guignols de l'info]]'', Eva Joly, a French-Norwegian ecologist and former judge.

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[[AC:VideoGames]]
* This is a trait you can give your sims in ''TheSims 3''. It causes them to respond badly to being told jokes.

[[AC:WebComics]]
* The warship AI Tag from ''SchlockMercenary'' was originally created with no sense of humor, but has tried to learn it to better understand his opponents.

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[[AC:WesternAnimation]]

[[AC:RealLife]]

* A great number of editors have on {{Wikipedia}} have {{no sense of humor}} and will remove even the subtlest, driest joke just because.

** Sounds like Ed Seltzer. 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 (he was, in fact, the specific genesis of the cartoon "Bully For Bugs", 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).

** Not exactly. A sense of humour and what’s funny or not is acquired; aspies, not being sso naturally keen on social interaction, can often develop a rather dark sense of humour, as they do not have the same inhibitions against it. This ‘aspies don’t have a sense of humour’ stereotype can get really annoying and quite [[FacePalm facepalm-inducing]], especially when Wikipedia cites it as one of the reasons some say Einstein was probably ''not'' an aspie (and he WAS OneOfUs, [[JustAddBitch bitches]]).

* Lampshaded on ''{{Criminal Minds}}'': Reid (falsely) calls Aaron Hotchner a narcissist as clue to where he is taken hostage. While figuring this out, Hotch asks the team, what they consider his greates folly. Spontanous answer by Prentiss: "You have no sense of humor!"

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** In ''[[{{Discworld}}/MakingMoney Making Money]]'', the head clerk Malvolio Bent has "no sense of humour whatsoever. It has been proven by phrenology." It becomes more apparent when one considers [[spoiler:his background as the child of a clown, being laughed out of the arena during his first performance (which failed), fleeing from the circus and vowing never to laugh again]].

** In ''{{Discworld}}/MakingMoney'', the head clerk Malvolio Bent has "no sense of humour whatsoever. It has been proven by phrenology." It becomes more apparent when one considers [[spoiler:his background as the child of a clown, being laughed out of the arena during his first performance (which failed), fleeing from the circus and vowing never to laugh again]].

** In ''MakingMoney'', the head clerk Malvolio Bent has "no sense of humour whatsoever. It has been proven by phrenology." It becomes more apparent when one considers [[spoiler:his background as the child of a clown, being laughed out of the arena during his first performance (which failed), fleeing from the circus and vowing never to laugh again]].

* A frequent side effect of [[AspergerSyndrome Asperger's]] is the inability to understand humour, as well as DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm, due to their being LiteralMinded. This can be subverted by Aspies themselves, who can [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove learn to understand humour]] just as well as any other emotion.

* An '''''egregiously''''' cliché blanket accusation of defenders of DeadBabyComedy. It will usually be coupled with some ranting about PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and a bit of ParodyRetcon sprinkled in.
* Germans are often stereotyped as having NoSenseOfHumor. In reality, GermanHumour is a bit more complicated.

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A subtrope of NoSocialSkills. May overlap with EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor, DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm, and StopHavingFunGuys. Also see LateToThePunchline, DontExplainTheJoke and CannotTellAJoke.