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Most funny or humorless characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "funny" to "humorless". This page lists the 25 characters whose average ratings were the farthest to either side. Because the scale is bipolar, it is reversable. For example, a rating of 1/100 for "funny" is the same as 100/100 for "humorless". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most funny characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.329Shawn Spencer (Psych)
296.734Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
396.587Fleabag (Fleabag)
496.318Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
596.0311Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
695.715Cosmo Brown (Singin' in the Rain)
795.4325Hoban Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
894.524Neil Fak (The Bear)
994.518Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
1094.4381George Weasley (Harry Potter)
1194.3343Donkey (Shrek)
1294.3254Mushu (Mulan)
1394.234Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1494.222Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1594.229Eric Effiong (Sex Education)
1694.2112Genie (Aladdin)
1794.237Jesper Fahey (Shadow and Bone)
1893.8121Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
1993.6241Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2093.6318Troy Barnes (Community)
2193.655Christopher Turk (Scrubs)
2293.4464Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
2393.488Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
2493.31459Pumbaa (The Lion King)
2593.340Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)

Most humorless characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.633Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
295.7525Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
395.323Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
492.2327Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
591.613Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
691.4391Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
791.334Javert (Les Misérables)
891.1164Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
990.619Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1090.318Cahir (The Witcher)
1190.223Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1289.957Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1389.9228Stannis Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
1489.723Shin Hati (Ahsoka)
1589.5287Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
1689.375Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
1788.930Lieutenant Schrank (West Side Story)
1888.826Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina)
1988.7191Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
2088.49Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
2188.140Cho Sang-woo (Squid Game)
2288.014PI Gabriel Cordova (Ginny & Georgia)
2387.7111the Alien (Alien)
2487.684Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
2587.5283Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones)

Similar features

The survey has 525 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with funny<--->humorless when aggregated at the character level.

  1. playful (not serious) (r=0.8)
  2. 😜 (not 🤐) (r=0.78)
  3. comedic (not dramatic) (r=0.76)
  4. goofy (not unfrivolous) (r=0.75)
  5. loose (not tight) (r=0.71)
  6. easy (not uptight) (r=0.7)
  7. bubbly (not flat) (r=0.7)
  8. prankster (not anti-prank) (r=0.69)
  9. 😀 (not 😭) (r=0.68)
  10. lenient (not strict) (r=0.68)

Notes

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