We have some humor built into our game. I mean it's a '70's Mob game. Plenty of jokes right there. Most players talk like they are from Jersey! The Crew's middle manager/mentor is a older aged Arcona with a big gut who wears track suits and I always have to do the WHOHA thing from Al Pacino for him. And we laugh as we talk about offing someone...

My Driver's landspeeder is an old looking Challenger without wheels... So we do have some built in humor to our games... Oh, yea, they also own a bar called The Dirty Tauntaun... But I can't say I sit down and go, man this will get a laugh out of everybody if this happens. Those don't happen to me. I find the funniest things come out of nowhere. Perhaps one of the best with my old group. They picked a Werbol doctor in their travels. We wasn't a fighter. Well, they got into a fire fight, and he was just kind of standing there. One of the players/characters yelled at him, "Just don't stand there! Take a shot" Well, for whatever reason, this is what I did. He reaches into his vest, pulling a small cylindrical object. He slowly raises it to about the height of his head. Instead of bringing up to one of his eye stalks, he takes his other hand and adjusts a knob on one end, then brings it to mouth and tilts his head back. He shivers, and coughs a little, then holds the container out to you asking if you want a shot?

We all rolled! From there they never expected Doc to get into a fight with them. But when the fighting broke out, he would be right there with them, always taking a shot!

"The Dank Weed?"

That beats "Shippy McShipface."

My players named their new Simiyiar-class light freighter the "Stubby One". For the life of me, I can't figure out why...

My entire group is ADD, so I've just learned to live with it. Everything they do takes about twice as long as it should with all the joking and laughing going on at the table. The point of playing, of course, is to have fun, but they do sometimes (well, a lot of times) go overboard and need reigning in. I don't purposely inject comedy into the adventures, but they seem to find humor in just about everything

@ Ogg, I would have gone with "Chubbs".

My current game is kind of like this little movie trailer. I wish it was more like this actually. But we still have a lot of fun. I have this great track from Meco that they did from Empire that really feels like a good car chase! I play that when the Duros Driver gets behind the wheel!

But I would love to either run this game, or play in it!!!

That beats "Shippy McShipface."

My players named their new Simiyiar-class light freighter the "Stubby One". For the life of me, I can't figure out why...

My entire group is ADD, so I've just learned to live with it. Everything they do takes about twice as long as it should with all the joking and laughing going on at the table. The point of playing, of course, is to have fun, but they do sometimes (well, a lot of times) go overboard and need reigning in. I don't purposely inject comedy into the adventures, but they seem to find humor in just about everything

I would cut my own throat.

We've got a running gag that whenever the hot sarcastic blue female twi'lek pilot rolls a despair her shirt tears open exposing her ample chest... of course this is due to her side story of being an unwilling holonet celebrity because her ex posted revenge porn on the holonet (a kind of how Paris Hilton got famous thing except that she's not an heiress)

I was looking over my notes for my next game and realized I'd inadvertently named somebody Commander Klank.

I was looking over my notes for my next game and realized I'd inadvertently named somebody Commander Klank.

Make him a droid-right-activist

So... I might have to change my entire game to a BlackStar Warrior campaign. That was glorious.

Anyway, I don't bring the comedy to my table. My players do that well enough on their own. The current party is:

An R5 astromech droid with a hoarding addiction, named 867-5309.

A Wookie gambler from a wealthy family, who is now deep in debt, named Furelise Caccachunk.

A Trandoshan bounty hunter named Thaddeus Sploder. 'cause he 'splodes things.

So... I might have to change my entire game to a BlackStar Warrior campaign. That was glorious.

Anyway, I don't bring the comedy to my table. My players do that well enough on their own. The current party is:

An R5 astromech droid with a hoarding addiction, named 867-5309.

A Wookie gambler from a wealthy family, who is now deep in debt, named Furelise Caccachunk.

A Trandoshan bounty hunter named Thaddeus Sploder. 'cause he 'splodes things.

Why do I get the feeling that your players are fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and it's offshoots? For some reason, that sounds like a gaming group made up of Crow T Robot, Tom Servo, and...probably Joel. Now I'm picturing you as Dr. Forrester as the GM. Holy crap I want to play in that gaming group now. Of course, the whole thing would be derailed by Tom and Crow, probably resulting in property damage and Movie Sign.

As with most of the posters so far, our game seems to be a mostly serious but occasionally humorous as well. Call me biased, but my favorite is probably my girlfriend's character, a Mon Cal doctor/archeologist who is part Dr Jones (ie Indy) and part Dr Zoidberg. "Now see here, young lady!" "Uh, doc, that's a guy..."

My main game is also a proper blend of goofing at the table, but taking the story itself seriously. The tone of the game is definitely in line with big, fun adventure films. It makes dark storylines all the more effective. When we go from laughing at a silly character moment directly to "Now, make a Fear check" the table hushes up right quick.

On the other hand, a one-shot I ran for my wife and in-laws, which I designed as a gritty Clone Wars story taking place during Order 66 on Kashyyyk, immediately nose-dived into absurdity. We had the Jedi botching all her rolls and deciding she was a drunk and the Wookiee who every encounter would take one shot with her modded bowcaster, say screw this, throw it down and leap in fists blazing.

My players all shot glares when the Gotal Separatist was a salesman named "Herg Tarlik"...

But they laughed when the NPC Gungan Jedi said, "Yousa don' need to sees her-ah stuff-a. She's-ah good..." (This was a setup... the customs inspector went back without the docs verified, and his crew called the inquisitor.)

They were none too thrilled with the Inquisitor being named Tybalt.

My players all shot glares when the Gotal Separatist was a salesman named "Herg Tarlik"...

"Somewhere out there, a T-16 is missing its seat covers."

My players all shot glares when the Gotal Separatist was a salesman named "Herg Tarlik"...

"Somewhere out there, a T-16 is missing its seat covers."

I don't get the Herg Tarlik reference? Asplain please.

My players all shot glares when the Gotal Separatist was a salesman named "Herg Tarlik"...

"Somewhere out there, a T-16 is missing its seat covers."

I don't get the Herg Tarlik reference? Asplain please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Tarlek

Herb Tarlek is a character from the 70's sitcom WKRP. He's a smarmy salesman. In one episode, Johnny makes reference to Herb's suits, saying, "Somewhere, a volkswagon is missing its seat covers." That's @Nytwyng extending a joke past where I had.

I changed the name slightly, Herb to Herg, Tarlek to Tarlik. Close enough that half the table got the reference.

Most of my NPC's of intended long-use will have referential names.

Inquisitor Tybalt is indeed named for the character from Romeo and Juliet. And, like that character, is hot-headed and egomaniacal. And good with a sword.

Oh, that guy. Been years since I watched that show. Even then I don't think I knew the characters name

Why do I get the feeling that your players are fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and it's offshoots? For some reason, that sounds like a gaming group made up of Crow T Robot, Tom Servo, and...probably Joel. Now I'm picturing you as Dr. Forrester as the GM. Holy crap I want to play in that gaming group now. Of course, the whole thing would be derailed by Tom and Crow, probably resulting in property damage and Movie Sign.

They are, but not obsessively so. In almost every group I've GM'ed for, I've been by far the biggest RPG nerd. This group consists of my old buddy with whom I played D&D in 8th Grade (the Droid), my wife, who enjoys games but could only be called the most casual of gamers (the Wookiee), and my 15-year-old son, who is even less of a tabletop gamer than my wife (enjoys it sometimes, but easily bored. He plays the Trandoshan). Last year for Father's Day, he found The Jewel of Yavin at the game shop, picked it up because he knew I liked the game, and after reading the description got very excited. We still haven't gotten to it.

Many, many years ago, this guy rolled up a thief and his name was pronounced dook-boot foo-cure, but it was spelled Duquebut Fuquer, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that when I asked to look at his character sheet I laughed long and hard, completely incapable of explaining my sudden and uncontrollable guffawing for almost ten minutes. When I finally got myself under control, even just thinking about explaining myself sent me into breathless laughter all over again.

Finally, another player took the sheet from me to see what was so funny...and he lost it, too! However, being marginally more capable of speech he said the name as we'd deciphered it, and the player quickly changed his character's name.

Many, many years ago, this guy rolled up a thief and his name was pronounced dook-boot foo-cure, but it was spelled Duquebut Fuquer, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that when I asked to look at his character sheet I laughed long and hard, completely incapable of explaining my sudden and uncontrollable guffawing for almost ten minutes. When I finally got myself under control, even just thinking about explaining myself sent me into breathless laughter all over again.

Finally, another player took the sheet from me to see what was so funny...and he lost it, too! However, being marginally more capable of speech he said the name as we'd deciphered it, and the player quickly changed his character's name.

What's wrong with being a duck butt lover? Actually that reminds me of zefrank's "The Truth About Ducks" video. Very funny, and filled with true facts! (no, really). But also NSFW, so I won't link it here. Check it out on youtube.

Actually just thought of another idea for humor that I've considered putting into a Star Wars game for lulz.

Have the players be on some remote world, no technology, purely primitive jungle/desert/etc wildlife. While they're exploring the place, have them notice something entering the atmosphere, and suddenly deploy some fabric thingy behind it, that seems to slow it down...weird. And then it lands, and this really slow and clunky droid thingy comes out, but it's incredibly primitive, and seems to only work via remote commands. Have them walk over to it as it starts to come out of it's shell, and begin to look around, and then have it stop and turn back to them, looking into the lens.

Essentially, have a NASA-esque level probe from some other species that isn't at interstellar tech level, encounter the party, and see how they react. Have the other species, suddenly lose their **** about this discovery, but are unable to do anything other than try and communicate through the rudimentary probe. Maybe the party decides to track it's trajectory and go visit the planet. Which could be fun, because screw any Prime Directive stuff!

I mean imagine what the people at NASA would do, if they got the first imagery data from a probe on a new world, and some clearly intelligent, cloth wearing, tool wielding creature (maybe a Wookie), just stuck their face in front of the camera, and started doing goofy things.

When I was running my last campaign the players were going to rob a bank on Mon Calamari. Our smuggler had rolled an insanely good roll when interfacing with the computer terminal to get some details on the bank. So he ended up accessing the bank security's schematics of the building. There was all sorts of useful info there. Then out of the blue one of the players asks:

"So what's the bank's name, anyways?"

I honestly hadn't come up with one, so I wing it and start rattling off something to the like of, " Imperial Banking System's Branch Aurek 117." However one of the other players pretends to look over the shoulder of our smuggler and says in a complete deadpan:

"It's name is Mon Cala-Money."

And since he RPed it so well and the smuggler's schematics were accurate, we rolled with it (after a good minute or so of laughing).

I'd have gone for "Mon Cala-moolah", myself...

I was looking over my notes for my next game and realized I'd inadvertently named somebody Commander Klank.

Does he know Nothing?

... wait, I'm thinking of Shultz. I assume this guy wears a monocle then.

Update on the Crew of the Penetrator, they are currently docked on Martle Station with a fake ID for the Ship.

Which is now called "Shuttle - V4G1N4". I should really stop letting my (28 year old) player name things