Skip to main content

What's So Funny?

    Humor- defined as something that creates amusement and induces laughter. However, something that you find funny may not be found as funny to someone else. Therefore, the circling question is, what do you find funny? What is your sense of humor?

    Personally when asked this question, I could not give you one answer. But after thinking on this question, I came up with the fact that I tend to laugh or even make jokes about things that aren't always "appropriate" or sensitive towards other's feelings. With this being true, I would say that I define my humor as "warped" or even a bit of dark humor. However, at the same time, I could also find myself laughing at something so simple, such as a video of a kid tripping and falling. So, why do we laugh? And why does something that could make me laugh so hard til I cry, not make someone else laugh at all? I am not saying that this a definite answer, but I do believe that a lot of your humor and what you find funny, stems from your family or who you surrounded yourself with. For example, whenever my family and I go somewhere, we purposely make sure that my mom and I are separated in order to make sure that we don't laugh or be disruptive in times when we need to be more respectful. Overall, I do not think there is one answer to what makes us laugh, however, as of where our humor comes, there are definitely some elements that play a role. But these elements differ for everyone so these questions remain open-ended with infinite possible answers. 

Is Humor in Advertising Effective? | Point Park University Online

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What's So Great About Poetry?

Poetry- the unit that most students dread to learn about in their English class. But why is poetry so disliked among high school students? A few of these reasons, and that I can attest for personally, are that poetry is seen as old, it can be quite difficult to understand/interpret, and we just fail to see the point of it. However, after interpreting some poems in class, my perspective began to shift (only slightly not significantly though). While I am still not the biggest fan of poetry, I am beginning to see a different side to it.  Yes, poetry is all of the negative things that I stated above (at least in my opinion) but once poetry is understood, the lesson becomes that much clearer and applicable. Understanding and correctly interpreting poetry is not only a beneficial skill to have but it also opens your eyes to a deeper understanding to things that are important in terms of culture, history, and etc. For example, poetry has effectively been used to advocate and teach about i...
Post a Comment
Read more

Everlasting Mistakes: America Never Seems to Learn

America is essentially naive. We take what we want and we take what we have for granted. If something is going to propel our status up, whether it's for wealth, our social lives, or just out of selfishness, we don't seem to even hesitate to act. As we observe in Raymo's piece, the act of selfishness and naiveté is what drives their decisions, and eventually, will lead to their own death. The piece takes place in 1987, which is only around 25 years from when we learned how harmful cigarettes actually were. Just like in Raymo's piece when the six-year-old girl "rubbed the glowing dust on her body" not knowing that the "beautiful dust" would "damage her living cells" (Raymo 212) and kill her, our society did something quite similar and acted out of same naiveté. We did the same thing with tobacco and cigarettes and blindly rushed into using them because "they were cool" and "the new thing". Then once it was already too late...
2 comments
Read more

"How Are You?" (I don't actually care though)

When we talk to people, we always seem to start our conversations with phrases such as, "how are you?" or "what's been going on with you lately?". But what is the purpose to asking these questions if the responses that we get back essentially don't mean anything to us? What are we getting from one-word answers like "good", "I'm fine", or just "yeah"? By nature, we ask these questions without actually caring about what the person answers back to us. However, I actually believe that these questions are of crucial use to us. For example, when your parents force you to meet someone like their "high school friend" and all you have to do is be polite, these questions are quite handy. You're able to fill awkward time and be polite at the same time. While it might seem cold-hearted to think this way, in reality, everyone does it. On the other hand, I'm sure there are some people who are asking these questions to ...
2 comments
Read more