Hungary is not even Balkan, it's Central Europe though they sometimes entertain the idea of having been Balkanized (not a positive statement). When a Hungarian says Hungaray has become Balkan it's always a joke, meaning things are getting chaotic, corrupt, haphazard, wild.

Hungarians have a very absurd sense of humor, dark humor, lots of double entendre, puns, political humor and a lot of Askenazi Jewish humor. And by lot I mean Budapest used to be a center of Ashkenazi Jewish culture, and Jewish actors, directors, journalists, comedians. Which is obviously more Central European than Balkan.

Szekelys in Transylvania are known among Hungarians to have the weirdest sense of humor, dry, deadpan delivery, panface witty, not the knee slapping kind of hilarious, but very smart. Szekely jokes often contain some profound wisdom. But since Romanians don't understand the Hungarian language their humor doesn't come across as remarkable.

The problem is that since the Hungarian language is not related to any other of its neighbors nobody understands their jokes. Like who other than Hungrians would understand a Hungarian double entendre or a pun? Hungary was considered the happiest prison cell in Soviet occupied Eastern Europe.

Hungarian culture and comedy is much closer to Ashkenazi Jewish, Viennese-Austrian and Czech culture than to Balkan.