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This is exactly the point. Dr. Strangelove isn't a laugh out loud comedy. It is a dark, subversive, giggling sort of funny. If the reason that you think you "didn't get it" is because you weren't rolling on the floor, then maybe you really did get it.

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This post really hits it on the head. One of the great things about this movie is that they weren't trying (for the most part) to cram a LOL joke in every minute. The humor comes from the difficult problems these characters are put into and their earnest reactions to them.