How do I deal with my sister's style of humour?

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Just to give you a little background - we are an Australian family. My dad who is deceased, had parents who were English. I used to find his style of humour hurtful as a kid &teenager, but now realise that a lot of my self-esteem issues have come about due to my sister always "having a laugh at my expense", from the age of 10 onwards. This scenario was encouraged by my father, then as soon as my sister left our household, after paying us a visit, I used to feel very angry & resentful as a teenager. Although no longer a teenager, I realised this on Christmas day at my mother's house, with my sister being in "fine-form". My friend has stated that this is called 'banter' & has similarities to say, the late Peter Coook/Dudley Moore/Goodies/Spike Milligan style of humour. After feeling like I was being attacked personally, I joined in with a 'reply', for the first time in my life. Any ideas on how to handle this in future?
 
.English humour is fine.As the humour tends to poke fun at themselves. You don't need to retort.Only join in the fun.It's slap stick comedy
 
ignore her, once doing that you will find that it will not be a problem any more,
 
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