http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2009/thinktip-humour-4/ Escape - Search - Think Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2009/thinktip-humour-4/#comment-67027 Karl Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:51:28 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1222#comment-67027 Humour means seeing things in a different way. Appreciating the value of differences. Humour means seeing things in a different way. Appreciating the value of differences.

]]> http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2009/thinktip-humour-4/#comment-66999 Neville Dean Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:17:45 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1222#comment-66999 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. 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.

]]> http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2009/thinktip-humour-4/#comment-66983 Ruk Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:43:56 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1222#comment-66983 humour indeed is what makes us different from other animal species on this planet. humour indeed is what makes us different from other animal species on this planet.

]]> http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2009/thinktip-humour-4/#comment-66978 Patricia Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:06:35 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1222#comment-66978 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!! 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!!

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