Do you think we lose our sense of humour as we get older?

ViceVersa

I think mine disappeared a long time ago - along with my get-up-and-go! If anyone should find them lying around, please let me know!

Your post proves your sense of humour is alive and kicking 😊

I am afraid, I have never had much of a sense of humour. My husband likes the Goon shows. I can't see what is funny about them, the same with comedy shows.

“I left the women’s institute before I died of boredom.”
Oh no!… I also couldn’t stand the meetings but have you seen the WI Leaning Hub? They have so much to offer online, courses on painting, crochet, drawing, digital drawing, lots of interesting talks, languages, digital skills, keep fit sessions and more. Do have a look

My sister in law and I can laugh so much on the phone to each other that we have to end the call. Her husband says that was Helter wasnt it.

And my lovely late friend, much older, and I laughed so much on our long
weekly walk. It did us both so much good. I miss that so much.

I’m 80 next year and life has changed. We are all aware of things globally now and the very unhumourous Trump and his like have INFECTED life everywhere in some form or another.
On Mumsnet you are younger and more optimistic, with life revolving around DAILY trials with children and family, not a lot of time to worry about health, and world war and Politics,
That is of course a generalism, but also very true in some way. The fun involved with children who don’t behave ( Anyone remember Joyce Grenfell ‘“George don’t do that…”) and dealing with everyday life can be hilarious, if after the fact! Here we tend to get more topics regarding older people in real misery in one form or another. I still have a good sense of humour ( I think) but not a lot when in pain and am ill. There are however still humorous topics posted, and some here have a great sense of humour, tho I would add I tend to only come on when I have something to say on the subject, and that tend to be on topics that inflame contrary views I’m afraid. I have little time left and I’m not coming on here to add my penny’th to something I consider time wasting! I run a private group (of older people) on Messenger and we often have jokes and fun items to cheer us all up.

I am 89, my friend is 80 nearly 81 other friend is 78 I think, we have a hoot of a laugh, go out to lunch 2 or 3 times a week, or just coffee,, and whereever we go we get others joining in our laughter. we laugh at silly things, well considered silly by some

It's been said we laugh at things which in.some way we are a bit afraid of, or are outside our experience. This is what young adults laugh so much. I know that as I've got older I laugh far less often. Not really scared of anything, seen it all before.

fancyflowers

Society as a whole has become more 'woke' and there are many more 'professionally offended' people around.
When I think back, programmes such as 'The Benny Hill Show' and 'Till Death do us Part' were considered funny in their day. They couldn't possibly be aired now.

Just watched Good Life again. Not only funny very clever interactions

There used to be some very amusing posts on gransnet .

I guess that as we get older we get grumpier .
I regularly visit several elderly ladies and I never know what kind of mood they are going to be in .

As for me ,
I know that I'm not as happy as I used to be
I have a lot of pain and my asthma makes me tired and breathless .

I used to get into trouble for being so giggly

As I wrote this I can hear a major row between two of my neighbour's daughters .
Their parents are away with a newly married daughter and hubby .
I dread to think how the main causer of rows is going to be as she ages .
In her twenties now-
it's pot luck whether she can crack a smile and mumble a hello .
The only person,who is foul tempered like her is one of my brood .
I get shouted and sworn at regularly . I feel a nervous wreck when she's around.

It doesn't bode well for the future for both girls .

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Theweirdoagainst60

You find Lenny Henry funny????
First person I've known who does!

An absolutely fantastic actor, but funny?
No.
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It's my sense of humour that keep's me going. I am even finding passages to laugh at in VirginiaWoolf.

"Interesting" viewpoints regarding SOH in this thread! I think I laugh loudest and longest with my mother who is 92 and has a wicked SOH. The stories she tells me about her neighbours in the over fifties bungalows where she lives, I should probably write down and publish! It's not often that I leave her company smiling. The stories she tells of my objectionable BinL are good for a laugh too. My father had a great SOH, but I must admit, he suffered and died, of cancer of the oesophagus. A painful condition which robbed him of his laughter, which had always been a huge part of his personality. But my mother, well... keep on laughing Mum!

My friends and I seem to laugh more, we’re all 70+.
Often finding things funny that youngsters don’t! It helps that we have a dark sense of humour sometimes though.

Thank you everyone - I’ve really enjoyed reading all your posts.

I still enjoy watching old Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Wonderful actors, all playing great parts and so so true to this day. I have been involved in certain embassies and various civil service etc, and think they got them absolutely right, and the great Nigel Hawthornes wonderful speeches , that he did so well to remember and his facial expressions , so absolutely right. I have heard a lot of conversations between civil servants , who were surrounding their politicians with "appropriate" work to do whilst they actually just carried on their own sweet way! How I wish the great Spitting Image were around now to cheer things. But you dont forget the lovely Douglas Hurd with his icecream cone hair, and Dennis Healeys eyebrows getting bigger every time etc. I find that I go back to radio a lot and old recordings of people I enjoyed from Victor Borge to Bob Newhart and Joyce Grenfall and Maureen Lipman. Maxine Peake has gone on to do so many different things but loved the great ensemble playing of the dinnerladies of Victoria Wood. Ah there is still something to smile about most days.

i have always had a good sense of humour, dark and sarcastic, probably being scottish and from glasgow has helped, i have found that things don't bother me so much as i get older, it is a case of what will be will be, i still laugh a lot and find fun in a lot of things, i think it does you good. a few of my neighbours say that i have dirty laugh, not sure if that is a compliment...lol

I’ve always thought that I have a good sense of humour but I can honestly say, apart from ‘Would I Lie to you’, I can’t think of any other programme on television that makes me laugh. All, so called, comedy shows appear to me puerile and full of bad language. Where are the shows like Only Fools and Horses’ that we used to sit down and watch as a family? So, yes, perhaps I have lost my sense of humour as I’ve got older!

I miss the late Sir Terry Wogan, his banter with his TOGS had me in stitches every morning. Especially his reading of Janet and John books. My son and daughters share my dark sense of humour so we can laugh until the "tears run down our legs " much to the bemusement of everyone else .

I don't think we lose it. I think it can change as decades pass and how we have been brought up and what we have been affected by.

If l post something on here l always try and add a funny comment even if it is a tad sarcastic.

I agree about Mumsnet. Quite a few people who cannot take a joke or have had a sense of humour bypass.

But then again, they are from a different generation and the world has changed.

I remember growing up when the English were Internationally renowned for their sense of humour and wit

And people would compliment otherpeople with a GSOH.

Not any more
Us old dears are dying off noe and we now have TIK TOK etc

The New World Digital Court Jesters.

Off to the Chemist now to pick up me monthly prescription.

See if you have a good old laugh today Ladies.🌻😻

I’ve had one Nobs and passed the joke onto my daughter who also found it funny.

I rarely laugh out loud at supposedly funny programs but I find “Here we go” with Alison Steadman as the granny to be hilarious.
I’m reading a book about helium- I can’t put it down!!!!! Get it???

I do 😂

I think I find things funnier now as I get older . People take things far to seriously. I supposed because I have lived through some truly awful things I see absurd things funny . People take offense at the slightest thing where as I see the humour in situations.

When I was told I was born in 2020 and confirmed position in 2021 I have a hole in the side of my heart I laughed . The cardiologist asked me why I was laughing. I have had 2 minor and 3 major operations all with general anaesthetic all with a dicky heart . Last operation need 4 bags of blood.

I even laugh at myself some of the things I do or situations I find myself in. Laughing does you good . Why be miserable life is to short . Anyway most of us as we get older have got all the tee shirts as instead of moaning about things we just got on with things .

I had a great laugh this morning with an older lady that I met at a coffee morning. We had great fun inventing an imaginary cat that she could have to fool the nosy neighbours who complain about her talking to herself.