I'm not fond of the idea, but at the same time, playing the victim like you are here doesn't exactly do much for comment quality.
Like comedy anywhere else, really.
HN has thankfully opened up a little in regards to light humour; that part of my profile was written quite a while ago.
Slashdot had the ultimate solution for our different tastes: you could configure a comment type (informative/funny/etc) modifier/threshold. You could say you wanted to see more funny replies and I could say I did not want to see them. It was a tiny bit complicated initially but I think the big impediment to adoption at other sites was the clunky UI. There is not a simple/unobtrusive way to display so many feedback options for each an every comment.