What’s something that once you turn 30 is no longer considered funny?
April 14, 2026
So I have a dark and wicked sense of humour. It could be darker but it isn’t the lightest
I laugh a lot about hypothetical prank ideas, as well as farts and when people fall over. Is that sort of thing still acceptable in 30’s?
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Farts become less funny when you worry you just shit yourself.
Honestly, my sense of humor hasn’t changed a ton… just some more perspective.
For me:
Seeing other people get hurt.
Exploitative pranks.
Some of the “viral” pranks we see online just make me feel sad/defeated now
My wife and i fart at each other all the time. We’re 40+. It’s funny every time
Farts will never stop being funny.
As I’ve grown up, I don’t like humor that involves punching down. I also find pranks that the victim doesn’t also find funny to suck.
Just depends on the change in culture. Used to be hip joking about racial and sexual stereotypes in the 90s. Now people literally crucify you over it lol. Well, unless you’re making fun of white people, then it’s okay.
Dead baby jokes were funny as an “edgy” teen. Once you have kids or lost a baby or seen actual child abuse it is very quickly unfunny.
There’s no universal truth, but as I’ve matured I have found that things like these aren’t funny anymore.
– overly edgy SA/mental illness/violence/dead baby etc based jokes. comes across as edgelordy and try-hard, punching down at people who are having a tough go of it. I assume the person making those jokes is either secretly vile or deeply hates themselves.
– constant sarcasm / self-deprecating / substance abuse humor. again, i assume this person is trying and failing to cover up self loathing. I used to have friends who joked about how nasty and trashy they were. That might be kind of funny in your 20s when you’re in your ‘goblin era’, but in your 30s? thats just someone who doesn’t care for themselves.
– constant sex jokes / body humor jokes. like… we get it.
– jokes about others appearance (specifically height, weight, skin condition, etc). If it’s not something that can be fixed in 10 seconds, it doesn’t need to be commented on. I might poke fun when a friend wears a loud-ass hawaiian shirt, but i’m not going to laugh at them gaining a few lbs.
– generally mean 2000s era humor. it’s all just glorified bullying, and always at the expense of someone else. when I see someone constantly punching down, I’m not laughing. I’m acknowledging how small and insignificant that person must feel to need to tear others down like that.
It’s not age but the type of people.
I have a 54 year old friend who is skateboarding with me. I’m 31. He’s an amazing dude, well spoken, very high in openness like me.
When we meet it turns into both dark humor and idiotic poo poo jokes, crass idiocy or being silly like children in general.
There are people where jokes in general are viewed as sign of immaturity, except the absolute vanilla, boring ones that are so polite you want to shoot yourself.
It’s really the crowd, it has nothing to do with maturity. After all it’s not like we actually believe what we say, it’s 90% a ping-pong joke match
I guess just general mean-spiritedness, I’ve lived long enough and met enough people to realize how hard life is and how you never know what somebody else is dealing with. Being mean for no reason is just…shitty, I was a huge edge lord in highschool though and didn’t care at all.
After having friends with miscarriages and a couple with stillborns, the dead baby jokes don’t hit the same as they used to.
Getting ridiculously fucked on on alcohol/drugs to the point of losing control and ruining your body/social reputation.
Going to the bars after 7pm. I want to be at home, have a beer, and be in bed at 930
-Telling people how drunk you got at a party/event.
-All those stupid fucking youtubers who “prank” people in stores by getting in their face and shit
-anything with a dead baby/child
Mind you, these are what i personally noticed isnt funny anymore and in no way do i judge people on what they think is funny. Its subjective
People being out of control drinking or doing drugs even if it seems like it’s all fun. Enough bad things have happened over the years. Nobody wants to have to babysit someone else anymore. People don’t want to deal with the liability. Or sometimes the “party” friend is now a certified alcoholic and most people are tired of them always being wasted
Eddie Murphy
I used to think he was hilarious. Now I have no idea why.
Farts are never not funny.
A good poop joke endures forever
Farting and falling over will never not be funny
Edgy jokes.
Bullying masked as humor. Period.
I used to have darker humour, but once death started being present in my life, losing a few friends and family members, cynicism started to become my enemy.
Also falling becomes considerably more dangerous as you age. I get it, but once you start seeing people breaking a hip or a tendon from a bad fall, it stops being funny very quickly
Farts will never not be funny. If they stop being funny to you then you need serious help
I think that a lot of those dark humor things are still funny, but I think the “Overton window” shrinks a bit. I don’t like seeing people get seriously injured (mentally or physically), and I don’t like a lot of the fake or overly contrived pranks you see online. I don’t like a lot of the mean spirited pranks.
Additionally, I think context is also important. I might consider something hilarious if I’m out with a group of friends but might be much more reserved if I were with my wife, kids, or other extended family. Aka “drunk guy pukes and shits himself outside of bar” is not something I’m watching in front of family, but will quietly giggle at in my group text with college and high school buddies.
The cartoon Baby Blues. Easy to laugh about babies and parenthood when it’s not you. Years later, I’m reading it and there’s a comic about going to Costco and buying the massive box of diapers. Now, that’s not funny, that’s Tuesday.
IMO your mama jokes.
STIs, Addiction and Terminal Illness.
The “Dumb Husband/Dad” stereotype in commercials and even tv shows/movies.
That may have worked for the Boomer generation because sure, a lot of them were dumb husbands & dads, but every younger generation has more & more young men being plugged-in, supportive, caring, and intelligent husbands/dads, and they’re doing it by choice.
Jumping out and scaring someone gets less and less funny as you get older.
I don’t have any heart issues but that shit feels more and more risky.
I think that, basically, bothering/involving random people in any of your pranks/jokes is, generally, in poor taste. If it’s a prank where the joke isn’t ‘on’ the random person then it *can* be ok… but, generally, I feel like we should just leave people alone to get on with their day.
40 years old – I hate seeing people in genuine distress. I see it a lot in the work I do and it never gets easier to digest. I hate it.
I will almost pee myself laughing at old Jackass episodes or any of the movies. Steve-o signed up to be in genuine distress and I think that’s hysterical.
Living with your parents
Fart jokes and most sit-coms.
Most “dark” humor i see now is people just being assholes then hiding behind “jokes”. If the joke is to piss off people first then be funny to others its not good comedy.
Crass humor has lost its appeal to me. The Boys tv show is a great example, plenty if people find that stuff funny but to me its lazy because its always just obscene and grotesque for the sake of it.
I guess as I get older I just appreciate more structured comedy. Build up and punchline. Something that took thought to come up with and deliver. Everything else just seems so cheap and lazy. Plus people doing it views and clout over actual comedy value.
It’s not matter of age. Farts are funny at any age if that’s your thing. Laughing at people injuring themselves or nasty pranks? You’re an asshole no matter how old.
A “wicked sense of humor” isn’t humor, it’s wickedness. And dark humor has nothing to do with wicked humor.
Dipping girls’ pigtails in the inkwell generally loses its humor.
Falling down. People go from laughing at you to worrying about you
Farts are never not funny.
Being a “Dad” and blaming them on the pets/kids is one of life’s great pleasures.
100% ageless.
Being needlessly rude. Jokes about death, cancer specifically.
The people just floating through life with no knowledge of what’s going on in the economy of with policy.
Doing drugs or alcohol too frequently.
Driving like an insane person
Fighting. It’s acceptable in your teens, tolerated in your 20s, and will ruin your life in your 30s.
Apathy. Apathetic people are just kind of pathetic from a put together adult point of view.
Sensitivity. There are huge problems in the world, a joke about men, women, gays, race jokes, as long as their intention is a laugh and not harm or hurt, they’re funny. It’s better to laugh about our differences and make them a joke, otherwise they’re serious and can be used by others to separate groups and take advantage of one. Kinda hard to be racist when everyone’s race is made fun of. Saying this as an ethnically Jewish person who is also bi.
Setting raccoons on fire.
jk
Seriously, getting drunk and doing stupid human tricks lost its allure well before 30.
Fart jokes and things like that are pretty much done for me by 30.
I also don’t enjoy seeing people fail and get embarrassed. A lot of TV comedy seems to be about someone doing something really dumb and the rest of us laughing at them. I don’t care for that.
When people trip and the fall. I used to find that very funny when I was younger it was me and my friends. It’s no longer funny because all it takes is one bad fall your life is different.
Dead baby jokes just don’t hit the same. Probably because you’ve experienced losing a baby or have had a close friend lose a baby.
42 comments
Farts become less funny when you worry you just shit yourself.
Honestly, my sense of humor hasn’t changed a ton… just some more perspective.
For me:
Seeing other people get hurt.
Exploitative pranks.
Some of the “viral” pranks we see online just make me feel sad/defeated now
My wife and i fart at each other all the time. We’re 40+. It’s funny every time
Farts will never stop being funny.
As I’ve grown up, I don’t like humor that involves punching down. I also find pranks that the victim doesn’t also find funny to suck.
Just depends on the change in culture. Used to be hip joking about racial and sexual stereotypes in the 90s. Now people literally crucify you over it lol. Well, unless you’re making fun of white people, then it’s okay.
Dead baby jokes were funny as an “edgy” teen. Once you have kids or lost a baby or seen actual child abuse it is very quickly unfunny.
There’s no universal truth, but as I’ve matured I have found that things like these aren’t funny anymore.
– overly edgy SA/mental illness/violence/dead baby etc based jokes. comes across as edgelordy and try-hard, punching down at people who are having a tough go of it. I assume the person making those jokes is either secretly vile or deeply hates themselves.
– constant sarcasm / self-deprecating / substance abuse humor. again, i assume this person is trying and failing to cover up self loathing. I used to have friends who joked about how nasty and trashy they were. That might be kind of funny in your 20s when you’re in your ‘goblin era’, but in your 30s? thats just someone who doesn’t care for themselves.
– constant sex jokes / body humor jokes. like… we get it.
– jokes about others appearance (specifically height, weight, skin condition, etc). If it’s not something that can be fixed in 10 seconds, it doesn’t need to be commented on. I might poke fun when a friend wears a loud-ass hawaiian shirt, but i’m not going to laugh at them gaining a few lbs.
– generally mean 2000s era humor. it’s all just glorified bullying, and always at the expense of someone else. when I see someone constantly punching down, I’m not laughing. I’m acknowledging how small and insignificant that person must feel to need to tear others down like that.
It’s not age but the type of people.
I have a 54 year old friend who is skateboarding with me. I’m 31. He’s an amazing dude, well spoken, very high in openness like me.
When we meet it turns into both dark humor and idiotic poo poo jokes, crass idiocy or being silly like children in general.
There are people where jokes in general are viewed as sign of immaturity, except the absolute vanilla, boring ones that are so polite you want to shoot yourself.
It’s really the crowd, it has nothing to do with maturity. After all it’s not like we actually believe what we say, it’s 90% a ping-pong joke match
I guess just general mean-spiritedness, I’ve lived long enough and met enough people to realize how hard life is and how you never know what somebody else is dealing with. Being mean for no reason is just…shitty, I was a huge edge lord in highschool though and didn’t care at all.
After having friends with miscarriages and a couple with stillborns, the dead baby jokes don’t hit the same as they used to.
Getting ridiculously fucked on on alcohol/drugs to the point of losing control and ruining your body/social reputation.
Going to the bars after 7pm. I want to be at home, have a beer, and be in bed at 930
-Telling people how drunk you got at a party/event.
-All those stupid fucking youtubers who “prank” people in stores by getting in their face and shit
-anything with a dead baby/child
Mind you, these are what i personally noticed isnt funny anymore and in no way do i judge people on what they think is funny. Its subjective
People being out of control drinking or doing drugs even if it seems like it’s all fun. Enough bad things have happened over the years. Nobody wants to have to babysit someone else anymore. People don’t want to deal with the liability. Or sometimes the “party” friend is now a certified alcoholic and most people are tired of them always being wasted
Eddie Murphy
I used to think he was hilarious. Now I have no idea why.
Farts are never not funny.
A good poop joke endures forever
Farting and falling over will never not be funny
Edgy jokes.
Bullying masked as humor. Period.
I used to have darker humour, but once death started being present in my life, losing a few friends and family members, cynicism started to become my enemy.
Also falling becomes considerably more dangerous as you age. I get it, but once you start seeing people breaking a hip or a tendon from a bad fall, it stops being funny very quickly
Farts will never not be funny. If they stop being funny to you then you need serious help
I think that a lot of those dark humor things are still funny, but I think the “Overton window” shrinks a bit. I don’t like seeing people get seriously injured (mentally or physically), and I don’t like a lot of the fake or overly contrived pranks you see online. I don’t like a lot of the mean spirited pranks.
Additionally, I think context is also important. I might consider something hilarious if I’m out with a group of friends but might be much more reserved if I were with my wife, kids, or other extended family. Aka “drunk guy pukes and shits himself outside of bar” is not something I’m watching in front of family, but will quietly giggle at in my group text with college and high school buddies.
The cartoon Baby Blues. Easy to laugh about babies and parenthood when it’s not you. Years later, I’m reading it and there’s a comic about going to Costco and buying the massive box of diapers. Now, that’s not funny, that’s Tuesday.
IMO your mama jokes.
STIs, Addiction and Terminal Illness.
The “Dumb Husband/Dad” stereotype in commercials and even tv shows/movies.
That may have worked for the Boomer generation because sure, a lot of them were dumb husbands & dads, but every younger generation has more & more young men being plugged-in, supportive, caring, and intelligent husbands/dads, and they’re doing it by choice.
Jumping out and scaring someone gets less and less funny as you get older.
I don’t have any heart issues but that shit feels more and more risky.
I think that, basically, bothering/involving random people in any of your pranks/jokes is, generally, in poor taste. If it’s a prank where the joke isn’t ‘on’ the random person then it *can* be ok… but, generally, I feel like we should just leave people alone to get on with their day.
40 years old – I hate seeing people in genuine distress. I see it a lot in the work I do and it never gets easier to digest. I hate it.
I will almost pee myself laughing at old Jackass episodes or any of the movies. Steve-o signed up to be in genuine distress and I think that’s hysterical.
Living with your parents
Fart jokes and most sit-coms.
Most “dark” humor i see now is people just being assholes then hiding behind “jokes”. If the joke is to piss off people first then be funny to others its not good comedy.
Crass humor has lost its appeal to me. The Boys tv show is a great example, plenty if people find that stuff funny but to me its lazy because its always just obscene and grotesque for the sake of it.
I guess as I get older I just appreciate more structured comedy. Build up and punchline. Something that took thought to come up with and deliver. Everything else just seems so cheap and lazy. Plus people doing it views and clout over actual comedy value.
It’s not matter of age. Farts are funny at any age if that’s your thing. Laughing at people injuring themselves or nasty pranks? You’re an asshole no matter how old.
A “wicked sense of humor” isn’t humor, it’s wickedness. And dark humor has nothing to do with wicked humor.
Dipping girls’ pigtails in the inkwell generally loses its humor.
Falling down. People go from laughing at you to worrying about you
Farts are never not funny.
Being a “Dad” and blaming them on the pets/kids is one of life’s great pleasures.
100% ageless.
Being needlessly rude. Jokes about death, cancer specifically.
The people just floating through life with no knowledge of what’s going on in the economy of with policy.
Doing drugs or alcohol too frequently.
Driving like an insane person
Fighting. It’s acceptable in your teens, tolerated in your 20s, and will ruin your life in your 30s.
Apathy. Apathetic people are just kind of pathetic from a put together adult point of view.
Sensitivity. There are huge problems in the world, a joke about men, women, gays, race jokes, as long as their intention is a laugh and not harm or hurt, they’re funny. It’s better to laugh about our differences and make them a joke, otherwise they’re serious and can be used by others to separate groups and take advantage of one. Kinda hard to be racist when everyone’s race is made fun of. Saying this as an ethnically Jewish person who is also bi.
Setting raccoons on fire.
jk
Seriously, getting drunk and doing stupid human tricks lost its allure well before 30.
Fart jokes and things like that are pretty much done for me by 30.
I also don’t enjoy seeing people fail and get embarrassed. A lot of TV comedy seems to be about someone doing something really dumb and the rest of us laughing at them. I don’t care for that.
When people trip and the fall. I used to find that very funny when I was younger it was me and my friends. It’s no longer funny because all it takes is one bad fall your life is different.
Dead baby jokes just don’t hit the same. Probably because you’ve experienced losing a baby or have had a close friend lose a baby.