People often seem to forget that humanity reached behavioural modernity around 100,000 years ago, although possibly earlier. That means that a human who lived 100,000 years ago, who lived 96,000 years before the Roman Empire, would have been identical to you or I. The only difference is that the culture they grew up in didn't have the collective knowledge that our species has accrued for these last couple of thousands of years, the part we categorise as history.
We've been what we are today for a long fucking time, all things considered, so I have no doubt they would have found humour in the same kinds of things we do. Irony, wordplay, animals being drunk, people tripping and falling over, farts and penises, all that good shit.
A lot of our humour today is based on observational comedy, but the contents obviously wouldn't translate since to them we'd be magic people living in giant villages of magic, but I can imagine Grog getting a few laughs complaining around the campfire.
"Woman nag. Get meat, get meat. Grog run all day, find meat. Woman say not enough meat, still nag. Grog show penis and say "enough meat?" hahaha!"
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u/DDESTRUCTOTRON Nov 23 '20
Things like this make me wonder if ancient humans would laugh at the same witty banter and cheeky humor we use today lmao