Compliments and compliment responses (CRs) are face threatening acts which may imperil the interlocutor’s positive and negative face. CRs are particularly challenging because of the need to equipoise accepting the compliment with saving face for not sounding snippy. The use of humor in replying to a compliment can serve as a softening factor to reply to a compliment elegantly but with mirth to balance out the face loss. This inquiry assays humorous CRs in Spanish and English in order to set up cross-cultural collations.