THINKTIP: HUMOUR
Posted on July 9th, 2009 by MichaelHUMOUR: Ask the question:
What is quite funny about this?
Humour involves the appreciation of oddness.
In humour there is the willingness to enjoy seeing the OTHER SIDE of things, the willingness to see fresh points of view, to see them and appreciate them without necessarily feeling the need to adopt them as one’s own.
Humour includes flexibility in the way we can look at information, the humour of creativity, and the humour of insight. Humour means seeing things in a different way. Appreciating the value of differences.
There’s the humour of wisdom, the humour of balance and tolerance, the humour of plurality. The enjoyment of surprise, chance and variety. The good mood, the sound of laughter, good humour and good health.
July 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Humour means seeing things in a different way. Appreciating the value of differences.
July 10th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I ponder what I once read or heard that comedy is not actually as funny deep down as it seems to be on the surface. Comedians tend to express their own anxieties, tensions, struggles, anger or hostility in trying to gain the acceptance of their audience. Laughter can express a sense of powerlessness or survivor’s guilt. Freud is cited as connecting humor to a release of nervous energy, to an expression of sexual desire or to self-ridicule. A 1975 study by Samuel Janus found that comedians are frequently haunted by early lives characterized by suffering, isolation and feelings of deprivation. Humor gives a form of protest against their lives, their families, their pain.
July 10th, 2009 at 1:43 am
humour indeed is what makes us different from other animal species on this planet.
July 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
One of the greatest gifts for being human is our sense of humour. Being able to laugh at our own human predicament even in our darkest hours makes us special animals on this planet. It would be a very much harder world to live in if we did not have this ability!!