History Main / NoSenseOfHumor

* Resident synthetic intelligences EDI and Legion from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. Though EDI [[CannotConveySarcasm certainly tries.]]
** By the third game, she's now a full on aversion of the trope, and is, for the most part, able to keep up with [[DeadpanSnarker Joker]], although her taste in humor leans more towards messing with people's heads.

* In ''Film/HotFuzz'' Nicholas Angel's devotion to his job above everything else has made him a first-class police officer. It's also rendered him a completely humourless, pedantic and uptight prick.

* From MercedesLackey's ''Literature/{{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 Music/TheyMightBeGiants.

* TheMarxBrothers: Groucho Marx always claimed that actress Margaret Dumont, who was always the ButtMonkey of his insults, never seemed to understand his jokes. Recent research has found out that this was simply an urban legend.

* Zane in ''Franchise/{{Ninjago}}'' is noted at trying to understand humor but seems to fail. The reason for this is that he is a RidiculouslyHumanRobot that normally has all of his emotion switched off, including humor.

* In ''TheScrewtapeLetters'', the devils' inability to understand humor is played for laughs.

* In ''[[Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat 1066 and All That]]'', Queen Victoria "remained obdurately [[RoyalWe plural]] and not amused" throughout her reign despite the best efforts of her subjects to amuse her.
* ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': Stannis Baratheon is ''perceived'' as this by the people of Westeros. The reality is that he has an ''extremely'' dry and subtle sense of humor which is lost on the average Westerosi who is accustomed to bawdy and/or toilet humor.

** As are (''ahem'') meninists. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Again, not the place]].

* No-nonsense {{Badass}} soldier Giroro of ''Manga/SgtFrog''.

** As are ''ahem'' meninists. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Again, not the place]].

-->'''Poppy''': Jokes? I don't know any jokes.

-->'''Petrok''': Funny, you can spot a tracer round flying over your head in time to duck it, but a joke...

* Castiel on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.

* In ''FushigiYuugi'', just try to name one of the Seiryu Seishi that had ''any'' sort of sense of humor, or even any funny moments. All of them are always dead serious and never find humor in any situation.
* Juubei Kakei from ''GetBackers''.

* No-nonsense {{Badass}} soldier Giroro of ''Manga/KeroroGunsou''.
* Hatori Sohma from ''FruitsBasket''.

* Apparently, this is what caused Creator/LeslieNielsen's success as a comedy actor. He would deliver the most ridiculous lines with a completely straight face because he genuinely did not get the joke he was saying.

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* Creator/AlanMoore's ''{{Promethea}}'' features a female cop [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous named]] Creator/LucilleBall in the supporting cast. She frequently has to say, "No relation" and remind people that she has No Sense Of Humor.

* Touya Akira and Touya Majin in ''HikaruNoGo''.

* Narumi from ''KarakuriCircus'' -- which proves problematic because the only way to stop his IncurableCoughOfDeath is to make him laugh.
* No-nonsense {{Badass}} soldier Giroro of ''KeroroGunsou''.

* [[NorseMythology Tyr]] in ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' is so stone-faced, he just spoke of honor talks when being told to joke, and when being told to laugh, he flat out refused and said it's not funny. And then, when given the [=SockPuppetTyr=] skin, he gets a sock puppet that likes to speak or crack jokes a lot... and [[VitriolicBestBuds he hates it]].

* Apparently, this is what caused Leslie Nielsen's success as a comedy actor. He would deliver the most ridiculous lines with a completely straight face because he genuinely did not get the joke he was saying.

* People who don't "get" ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' - a show that plays bad movies and heckles them as they play - sometimes are dealing with this. They find the riffing gets in the way of their enjoyment of the movie being played. Not everyone has this issue though - some people have a good sense of humor but it's hard for them to follow two things - the movie ''and'' the riffing.

** Also a common technique among abusers, who verbally taunt, harass, and degrade their targets and then, when feelings are hurt and/or they are called to account for their behavior, defend themselves with "You can't take a joke." In other words, they take a case of DudeNotFunny and deliberately try to turn it into this trope.

* [[http://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2012/05/30 Harold]] in ''BarneyAndClyde''. So far, that's his sole character trait.

* Any being with the disadvantage "No Sense Of Humor" in ''{{GURPS}}''.

* At the 2005 Academy Awards, host ChrisRock joked that JudeLaw was in "every movie" released that year, remarking "Who ''is'' this guy?" and implying that Law was a low-rent TomCruise. 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. ''SaturdayNightLive'' did an entire sketch about this called "Sean Penn's Celebrity Roast", in which Penn [[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely misses the point]] of the roast and acts annoyed at the comedians making fun of their fellow celebrities.

* Zane in {{Ninjago}} is noted at trying to understand humor but seems to fail.[[spoiler:The reason for this is that he is a RidiculouslyHumanRobot that normally has all of his emotion switched off, including humor.]]
* TheSimpsons: Rex Banner never laughs. When he tries to do so, in "Homer vs. the Eighth Amendment" (due to him finding the idea of a beer baron operating under his nose without getting caught "laughable"), he fails miserably.

* Princess Luna in the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic episode "Luna Eclipsed" is unable to comprehend the merriment of [[YouMeanXMas Nightmare Night]] until she learns to [[WhatIsThisFeeling have some fun]].