What does it mean if someone has a droll sense of humour?

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• droll – in french means funny – so it means a funny sense of humour, it can be dry or black humour but it’s funny.

  definitely not american humour – now that’s just dull and boring and not funny at all.

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  What does it mean if someone has a droll sense of humour?

• It doesn’t mean boring lol, I think droll means boring in French or something like that but a droll sense of humour is someone with a “dry” sense of humour (see yourhumourdictionary link). A dry sense of humour someone who doesn’t really tell a joke just makes like a witty observation about a situation (follow metafilter link)

• Droll humor is an often dry, witty form of humor that elicits laughs through amusingly odd, sometimes zany behavior or speech. Due to its more subtle nature, this type of humor is not commonly used by comedians; Steven Wright is an example of one who does use it in combination with other techniques.

  “Highbrow” comedy and British comedy are often classified as having droll humor.

  Examples

  Popular comedians known for their droll humor include:

  Emo Philips

  Houses make strange noises at night like creak, groan and “Emo, I’m going to kill you.” …So I remembered what my mother told me, “Whenever you feel afraid just whistle a happy tune” … [whistling] … then I felt a hand around my throat and a voice said, “Thanks. I thought I’d never find you in the dark.”

  Steven Wright

  There’s a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.

  John Cleese (Monty Python). Known also for his physical comedy

  If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

  Mitch Hedberg

  I don’t own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone needs to get a hold of me, they just say, “Mitch,” and I say, “What?” and turn my head slightly.

  Yes Minister

  The popular British political sitcom frequently used droll humour and pun-based comedy, with other characters responding with “oh, very droll.”

• Droll (I just looked it up) means amusingly odd or whimsically comical.

  So this someone has an amusing, odd, unusual, whimsical sense of humour.

• It means they have a dry sense of humour. It’s often hard to tell if they are joking or being serious!

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  It means you have an odd/strange sense of humor, and/or that they find some humor in your sense of humor. Hope this helps.

• it means they are the daughter of a troll – ooops thats droll