“Like smell or taste, humor is a sense and different people are going to think different things are funny,” says Alison Dagnes, author of the just-published book A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor. “When you throw politics into the mix, our opinions and our biases will affect the way the jokes land.”
But what if you don’t throw politics in the mix? Below are six relatively nonpolitical jokes told by six very politically outspoken comedians — three liberal and three conservative.
Presumably, their jokes are tailored to appeal to conservative or liberal sensibilities. So if you think some are funny and others are not, perhaps your sense of humor has a certain political bent, right? (Or left.)
Read the jokes below and click Funny or Unfunny. You will discover who told the joke and where. At the end of the quiz, you will find out where your sense of humor falls in the spectrum.
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