Once I was in a bar in L.A. filled with Japanese businessmen. I recieved a couple of half dollars at the counter as change so on an impulse I stuck both of them into my eyes like monocles and screamed: "BANZAI!!!" Immediately the Japanese were rolling on the floor in laughter.....And why they laughed so much at such a silly routine I don't know but this is why I said they have the strangest sense of humor.
PJ... YOU are running around with half dollars stuck in your eyes yelling BANSAI and you think THEY have as strange sense of humor...LOL.
PJ... YOU are running around with half dollars stuck in your eyes yelling BANSAI and you think THEY have as strange sense of humor...LOL. It was sort of an experiment to see just how far you can go with them. Actually you can do most anything slapstick in front of Japanese businessmen and they will laugh like hell at it. And the strange thing is they are incredibly formal (always wear business suits even when on vacation) and serious with each other.
Try cracking eggs on your forehead. I am sure this will make them go into convulsions.
Muslim Arabs have practically no sense of humor. They laugh at ceremonial castrations, cross-amputations and female circumcisions, but little else. Certainly, a soldier trapped in a minefield is worth a few laughs. So too is a pre-pubescent dressed to kill. Oh yes, an occasional donkey whipping may raise a smile, and I remember that I once saw a magician (gully-gully man) raise a grunt in the audience.
The story is told in Benghazi of a Libyan who was new to the United States and was taken to a New York comedy club shortly after he arrived in America: The sound of boisterous laughter nearly gave him a heart attack. The sound was utterly foreign to him. I could go on....