Did you know the only time we laugh is when we are making fun of someone else, why is this?

Answer 1

I know exactly what you mean. It is also when I am playing pranks on somebody. Those is when I laugh the hardest.

Answer 2

That's one obvious time when it's done. It's better when we can laugh at ourselves in the same situation. Laughter is merely the alternative to grieving. It's the same disaster, the same absurdity, only we recognize it and transcend it. If you laugh at someone else's misfortune, however unsympathetically, you are acknowledging that chance has spared you the same fate.

In Robert Heinlein's science fiction novel, "Stranger in a Strange Land," the character Michael was raised on Mars by Martians, then brought to Earth as an adult. He does not understand the idea of humor until one day at the zoo he watches a monkey whose banana is stolen by a bigger monkey. The monkey turns around and hits an even smaller monkey and Michael bursts out laughing. He finally gets it, saying, "It's funny because it hurts!"

If we don't laugh, we can't heal. The darkest Shakespeare tragedy has scenes of comic relief, often of very dark humor. We laugh at Hamlet's gravediggers, pushing back the thought that Yorick merely blazes our trail.

Answer 3

Don't know where you got this idea but it's false. I laugh at a lot of things, but it's never about making fun of someone else. Have you ever watched a comedy movie? You'd laugh at what's taking place but you're not making fun of anyone. You're just enjoying a good movie. If someone tells you a joke and you laugh, are you making fun of someone or just laughing at something funny????

Answer 4

I laugh at other things besides making fun of people, all jokes aren't about making fun of people. I think people make fun of other people and laugh at them because to some people it feels good to laugh at someone else, but they can't take the heat of being laughed at.

Answer 5

Because you are really laughing at yourself, Although the other person is the target, you know that it could be you. Your laughing is just a sign of your own insensibility. A prime example is the old slapstick comedy of someone being hit in the head with a plank of wood, or the three stooges poking each othe in the eyes.

Answer 6

Feeling guilty about a bad sense of humor?
Your assumption is false. The example I have that best illustrate this is the fact that I laugh when I am very frustrated or angry or sad. But the things in this world that most amuse me are irony and word play and the humor in those does not involve people.

Answer 7

Sure do! Usually at someone else's expense. But what fun it is.
Besides it really is to make one feel better about one's pitiful life. That is the answer.

Answer 8

I know that's not true because I don't, but I know that it is a reaction because it is not happening to us and it is a nervous reaction. It is purely spontaneous and after we usually regret it after because we always commiserate with the person who has befallen some dilemma. If you don't then I'll begin to worry if I were you, because you never know when it will happen to you!

Answer 9

i also laugh when i have nothing to say so its not the only time

Answer 10

I'm not part of the "we" and I feel that people make fun of people just to make themselves feel good. It's really pathetic.