Jokes: laugh or cry

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

When I hear the word "humor", I instantly remember the well-known symbol of the theater - a couple of masks: one laughs, the other cries. It would seem that they are complete opposites. But for some reason in life very often a happy face turns into a grimace of suffering.

This transition is facilitated by humor, which, if we turn to theory, is a kind of comic and has a kind, "laughing" character. Other types of comic - irony, satire, sarcasm - are much more violent in nature. But in life we are accustomed to using the kind word "humor" to denote even that which has an evil content.

Most of us have been the object of jokes at least once in our lives, but if such jokes were of a very unkind nature, what did you hear in response to your just claims? "Who's to blame that you don't understand humor …" And you start thinking: maybe I really don't understand? By the way, Cleo has already written about such a "cocktail": a woman and a joke, let's once again talk in more detail about what is "funny" for us.

Sense of humor: the rich, the happy

Since all kinds of comic are summarized in speech by the word "humor", let's figure it out. Every person has a sense of humor as well as, say, a sense of style.

• A sense of humor can be given by nature and does not need to be developed.
• It may be, but it should be slightly corrected (it is elementary to think what you are saying, so that you would not be painfully ashamed of what was said out of place).
• It may simply be absent, but it can be artificially created (in a simplified form: a couple of homemade preparations - jokes, aphorisms).

If a person knows how to joke, does it at the right place and on time, then he, as they say, is the soul of the company. Therefore, everyone loves to show their humorous gift, but only jokes are not always successful.

Who's kidding here?

• People with a healthy sense of humor are able to maintain a conversation, appreciate a good joke, and say something witty in response.
• Jokers - "hee-hee" and "ha-ha" and are pouring in, as if from a cornucopia. They laugh at everything they see: at themselves, those around them, this very funny world. All this is due to an extraordinary way of thinking.
• Funny people are the same jokers, only their manifestations of a sense of humor are often more harsh. Often their "gags" come from a desire to amuse the crowd. The feelings of the intended victim are not taken into account, which distinguishes them from cheerful and kind jokers.
• Wits - oh, these are intellectuals who rarely speak out, but very aptly. They do not seek to offend a specific person, but want to flaunt the vice embodied in this or that person.
• Ulcers ridicule everyone and everything. As a rule, these are offended people, for whom such "humor" is a kind of screen, protection from attacks, or, conversely, a challenge to society.

What are these jokes?

It's no secret that every person is individual and vulnerable enough. What seems ridiculous to one person can greatly offend another, and it is almost impossible to guess how they will react to your statement. You need to have a huge talent to joke tactfully and to the point. If you are not sure that you have such talent, you should adhere to a simple rule: never choose someone's appearance or character as the object of cheerful attacks.

Otherwise you can:

- be branded as an ulcer or even an envious person;

- severely hurt the feelings of another person, without even knowing about it. Each of us already has enough ill-wishers, and it is not worth replenishing their army;

- turn into a gossip. Your bad joke can be interpreted as a real fact and carried on in a perverted form.

Again, jokes can be of different quality.

Jokes-pranks - as on April 1st. On April Fools' Day, you have no right to be offended by them. Although, of course, they can say this …

Gossip jokes are when you know that your neighbor Masha is terribly jealous, and calmly inform her that her husband has been chirping with long-legged Lyudka from the eighth floor for forty minutes. Just shout after the fleeing Masha that it was a joke, otherwise it will be bad for everyone.

Jokes-insults - when you really want to offend a person, they tell him frank rudeness or vulgarity, and then add with a grin that this is, they say, a joke. The best defense is jokes-witticisms - well-aimed, perhaps ironic remarks, bright, colorful, unexpected and containing a deep thought.

Label jokes - when a person's flaw is noticed and reminded of it at every opportunity. Or they constantly remember some awkward situation.

This often happens to the stars: who of them has not been in the shoes of "the most badly dressed star"! From Britney Spears to Paris Hilton. They have to put up with such labels and even find benefits for their careers in them.

But back to our beloved. If in this way spiteful critics constantly joke at you, then you should not encourage their creativity. It is best to either ignore such attacks, or respond briefly, succinctly and caustically. It goes without saying, without rudeness and personalization.

If suddenly such jokes stuck to you in your favorite company, then think carefully if they offend you.

So that humor is in place

Of course, a good sense of humor is based on the ability to kindly laugh at something and to amuse others. But it is even more important to be able to laugh at yourself. What are your jokes worth if any awkward situation causes a feeling of shame, awkwardness, or, even worse, aggression? Just smile and say, "Who doesn't happen to?"

It seems that a sense of humor is such a vital thing that there is never too much. But there are times when humor is inappropriate. For example, when we are sad, we need a person who, first of all, is able to listen, and then, if not give advice, then at least be sad with us. Often, a sympathetic silence can be much more supportive than a party given in your honor.

Having a good sense of humor is almost like having a treasure. But, like treasure, they need to be able to properly dispose of. So that your jokes are aimed at creation, and not at destruction. So that they help you, and not quarrel with others. Then you will laugh only out of joy, and not out of powerlessness or anger.