All things? Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. Jerry and George, sitting in the coffee shop discussing Superman:
Jerry: "I think Superman probably has a very good sense of humor."
George: "I never heard him say anything really funny."
Jerry: "But it's common sense. He's got super strength, super speed, I'm sure he's got super humor."
George: " You would think that, but either you're born with a sense of
humor or you're not. It's not going to change even if you go
from the red sun of Krypton all the way to the yellow sun of
Earth."
Jerry: "Why? Why would that one area of his mind not be affected by the yellow sun of the Earth?"
<head in hands> Lord, I can't believe I'm giving this a straight answer....
Ok, 1st, I'm limiting my answer to the Earth-1, Silver-Age, Pre-Crisis, Superman. I think John Byrne's Superman is a super-stiff. That aside, there is quite a bit of textual proof that Superman has a Super-Sense of Humor. Think back to the Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane and the Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen comics. Every issue or three of LL, and less frequently in JO, one of the title characters would do something dumb (touch an alien artifact that S-Man expressly warned them not to touch, drink a mystery liquid because it *might* make them super, stow away on an interplanetary rocket etc.) Superman would invariably chuckle and say something like "It'll be funny to teach them a lesson." The lesson would invariably involve public humiliation. (A typical example: Lois tries to trap Clark Kent into exposing his id. Superman gets annoyed and arranges with Batman to let Lois "discover" that Wayne is Superman. Lois falls in love with Bruce once she thinks he's Superman and accepts Bruce's proposal. Jump forward a few weeks. Lois is walking down the aisle with Bruce. All her friends and family are there. News cameras are broadcasting the wedding world-wide. Superman walks in. Lois is stunned. Superman tells Lois that Bruce gave a million to charity to impersonate Superman for a day. Lois, humiliated in front of the entire world, backs out of the wedding. Then EVERYONE laughs at Superman's trick.) Personally, I think this is cruel, but in the world of the comics, vaguely cruel pranks (the word invariably used to describe this) are considered the height of humor. This sort of thing happens all the time. You and I may not think it funny, but in the context of the story, the characters do. (From this, we deduce that the apex of humor on Earth-1 must be to pull chairs out from under little old ladies and put plastic dog poop on the dinner table.)
Steve (who's now trying to remember if Superman ever used his heat vision to give people Super-Hotfeet, as a prank.)
It was from "The Stock Tip" (season 1, first aired 6/21/90). George
gets a tip on a stock and talks Jerry into buying in. The stock goes
down, Jerry bails out and loses a few grand, George stick with it and
cleans up at the end. The Superman conversation was just filler, and
not integral to the plot although it did help enforce the "Superman is
Jerry's favorite super hero" motif that ruins throughout the show.
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Well of course he does. We just don't get it. If Superman ran or flew somewhere, could you follow him? Of course not. So when he tells jokes, why would you expect to follow his jokes. 8-)
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Which reminds me of a story.<
A couple of guys are drinking at one of those revolving roof-top
bars.<
One guys says to the other, ``You know, buddy, this is an amazing
bar. The updrafts here are incredible.''<
Second guy: ``What are you talking about.''<
First guy: ``Let me show you''<
he goes to one of the big glass windows, slides it open, then steps
out.<
He drops out of sight, then a moment later, he slowly floats back up
to window level and steps back in the bar.<
The second guy can't believe it: ``That's amazing. I've got to try
it.''<
He steps out the window and plummets 30 stories to his death.<
Bartender says, ``Superman, you sure are a mean drunk.''<
mind that wasn't affected, like Jerry said. It only affected his physical
properties, not mental. He also doesn't have a super ego, or a super
sense of logic. He is super moral, but that may be due to his upbringing
instead of his trip through the sun.
"Early to rise, early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead." ---Yakko Warner