What is Humor?

Question

to you?

I had to write a thesis on this topic years ago in college.
Was curious what other people would say.
Clowns welcome.

Answer 1

Self supervised madness.

Answer 2

Whatever makes people laugh, which I think breaks down to three basic types; physical comedy, cleverness/word play, and surprise/twist. I've probably missed a category. Maybe, in this day and age, foul/disgusting should have its own category.

Many times, when in the midst of the daily grind, a quick pun will break the tension and get big laughs. At the pace many of us live, the long joke is losing its place in oral history and has moved to the internet - where is usually told quite poorly. And some jokes require visuals, so we've lost that as jokes get e-mailed to a hundred billion inboxes.

Answer 3

The sixth sense.

A kind of craving that is fulfilled by a combination of conventional and/or unconventional ideas.

What happens when you have to let out emotion, and you aren't sure what you feel, or maybe you are, but you are full of multiple feelings and ideas.

And the appreciation of that in others

Answer 4

when you look at life in a positive way, when you think that life is not as serious as everyone makes it seem. Hope that helps:)

Everyone sense of humor is different and it depends how they were raised, i think that it is something you learn from your parents, mine are really layed back and laugh at anything and now so do i.

Answer 5

When something pleases your ego in a subtle way that does not suggest your ego being elevated, but rather, your spirit being recreated.
When there's something that implies the existance of the humored's self.
It's simply the humored's complicated way of saying "me, myself and I"

Answer 6

Humor is a relative term pertaining individually to each persons perception of what amuses them.

Answer 7

humor to me is seeing something in way that wasn't thought of before.

you watch stand up comics tell a story and they talk about everyday things but not in the way the regular guy would do it.

Answer 8

ok i will give you an example of humor. it is called a joke. a girl wants to go to the movies but it costs 10 dollars. she asks her dad for the money and he says ill give you the 10 bucks if you suck my d ick. she says no way dad, thats wrong. and she leaves. a few minutes later she asks her dad again, and he says yes i will give you the money, if you suck my d.ick. well this girl wants to go to the movies really bad. so she agrees to whatever he wants. she gets down on her knees and puts her mouth over his co.ck. and then she jerks her head back really fast, and she says gross dad, youre di.ck tastes like s.hit. and he says yeah, youre brother wanted to go see the movies too.

Answer 9

Stating the truth in non-judgmental, impersonal form...It is funny because there is another perceived end,opposite polarities, who actually laugh at themselves also uncapable to judge.

Answer 10

There are many types of humor....dry, sarcastic, goofy, absurd, meloncholy, dark, slapstick, ....basically anything that evokes amusement.

Answer 11

when the president busch junior said that zurich is in Germany
( it's not the most funny, the most funny is that the american people say , "yes it's true " ).