Humor, An Extensive Language Of Amusement Through Humor

Writers are constantly looking for new ways to convey their messages. Even if a piece isn’t serious, creative delivery is vital to captivating a modern audience. Humor isn’t just about becoming the next Tina Fey or Stephen Colbert. Adding comedic elements to writing can set an argument apart--in both negative and positive ways. Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it definitely can help convey an argument. While the goal may be to improve an argument or message, it can sometimes be a disadvantage as well, especially when discussing education.

A Humorous Galaxy Ever since the infancy of written language, man has been making jokes to humor one another. The first joke ever written, crafted by an ancient Sumerian dating all the way back to 1900 BC, shows that even the oldest ancestors of mankind thought that potty jokes were pretty neat. Douglas Adams, in his book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, uses his advanced sense of humor to create plenty of opportunities to appreciate humor in the written form. This fictional adventure follows Arthur Dent after he is saved by his alien friend, Ford Prefect, from the destruction of Earth. With the help of humor and sarcasm, Adams portrays his views of society and provides readers the opportunity to realize some of the small flaws that we

No belief or idea is as important to me as humor. To quote Henry Drummond from Inherit the Wind, “When you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.” Having humor is having perspective, and in doing so allows people to find truth and nuance in an otherwise black-and-white situation. Humor allows me to personally detach from a scenario and analyze it from a bird’s eye view, giving me the edge to understand what others cannot. Apart from seeking truth from humor and identifying the absurd, humor brings people together, whether it be in times of conflict or indifference. Humor is why shows like Last Week Tonight and The Daily Show thrive in times of political divisiveness, poking fun at the absurdities in politics and getting

David Sedaris is a popular comedic autobiographer who delivers intelligent and slightly embellished satirical content inspired from his memoirs and personal experiences. Sedaris’s short story “Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities”, is a magnificent mastery of his humorous writing style. The story is about David’s experience of him and his sisters being forced to take music lessons because of their father’s maniacal obsession to start a family jazz band. David eventually finds himself taking guitar lessons with the unique individual, Mr. Mancini, a midget. David and his teacher have a unique dialogue and references towards his guitar, which makes David feel like an outsider and uncomfortable, keeping secret “screwball” thoughts to himself. His guitar teacher’s disdain for him coupled with lack passion and interest ended his brief uninterested flings with the guitar regardless of how his father felt. People will honor an individual’s interest if the person means that much to them, however, there is always an end to the humor if the interest is not reciprocated. Sometimes an obliged imposition can create situations that make the imposed feel like an outsider in their own way. Personal interest and identity may not be the standard or acceptable in the positions they were forced into therefore, as a response, a superficial persona is created to camouflage true feelings. If the passion for a subject is nonexistent to someone,

Norman Cousins said, “Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions" (Moss 1). Humor is studied by many researchers in sociology, psychology, art, literature, and medicine. When people wonder whether humor aids in areas other than health, a treasure trove of possible benefits to the learning or educational community is opened up. Humor can be used as a tool to promote learning.Research speaks to the many benefits of humor in healing, to its benefits in the classroom or boardroom, from reducing stress of students or employees, to boosting self-esteem and feelings of camaraderie. Additionally, studies show that those who use humor to convey a message are often more favorably perceived. Humor helps deliver the presenter's message to

How do comedians use comedy in order to display a universal truth? Comedy lightens the mood and allows the listener to think better about the Universal truths. But just what is a so called universal truth? A Universal truth is a truth that cannot be disputed or argued against, but what is the biggest Universal truth? Death... There is nothing more certain that death, Or is there? When people die we have no idea where they go or if they even exist. In fact death is probably the biggest dispute among humans and by this logic, what is life? If we think like this then all throughout our life we are confused since we are confused about death. so the biggest universal truth is not death but in fact it is confusion. Confusion is an emotion we feel

In the sketch Office Homophobe, Latrelle, a close-minded and blatant homosexual, accused his officemate of homophobic for complaining about his preference in sexual music, word, and picture. He continuously accusing him of homophobic based on stereotype. However, he learned that his coworker is also homosexual when his office mate's boyfriend Gavin shows up at work. In Henri Bergson’s theory, inelastic character, mind, and body is an obstruction to “living well” that needs laughter as a correction (6). In this sketch, the close-mindedness of Latrelle demonstrates his inability to live “well,” and his co-workers homosexuality is its correction.

According to Barton “The relief theory is the view that humorous laughter is a manifestation of the release of nervous, excitement or emotional tension.”(91) In other words a writer uses the relief theory to break the tension one has created in their writing. When Sedaris went into the elevator and was in there alone with little boy he said: “We were alone now, and something unpleasant entered my mind. Sometimes when I’m in a tight situation, I’ll feel the need to touch somebody’s head”. This is an example of the relief theory because Sedaris was saying something serious. When he says something unpleasant entered my mind” we can infer that he did wanted to do something that he shouldn’t to the little boy. Then when he says “I feel the need to touch someone’s head” he broke that tension. This is effective because the tension that he has created to the readers is that he is thinking about doing something bad to the little boy. To release the tension he had created he then says that he needs to touch his head. This relates to the argument because people think that all homosexuals want to do is touch little boys, I’m sure that it crossed all of the readers minds when they first read the lines in which he says something unpleasant entered his mind. To even make it more clear that he is not a pedipphile he talks about his problem about touching. Not knowing that

Humour and satire are two concepts that are both wide ranging and diverse, from dark, to light hearted, with each producing a different effect. Humour in the main, is something that is used to please the audience, its function is to invoke laughter amongst its audience. Satire is used to create a comical critical view of the subject at hand, this can range from a light hearted comical way, to a judgemental way, with each style giving the text a different meaning, however this does not mean that satire cannot be humorous, which can evident in the use of parody and irony within texts. Within literature both concepts play an important role to how the text is viewed, humour can include word play, grammatical jokes, to even inside jokes with the author and reader, and with satire, including that of irony and parody, with each style and type delivering humour in its own unique way. These differing styles of humour can be found in a variety of forms including Jasper Forde’s The Eyre Affair (2001), with its silly atmosphere, word play and grammar jokes, and the use of light hearted satire and parody to brighten up the text, and Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989), where there is a more serious atmosphere, with a more critical, satirical eye on history and characters, as well as using irony to achieve its comical effect, and the position of the world. Each text is humorous and satirical in its own right, and with each author using different techniques to

Debbie, I completely agree with your views on the usage of humor in motivational appeals. Humor is an amazing way to make something negative or even painful to talk about much lighter and easier to stomach. Unfortunately, on the opposite end of the spectrum we have pity and guilt. These types of motivational response aren't the most dignifying way of appealing but are definitely an effective means of doing

This double standard is one that depicts women as a withdrawn object to be sexually desired by men, but also one that is prone to negative labeling like “slut” or “whore” (Jackson & Cram, 2003). What they conclude and suggest, however, is that this double standard that women are held to can be disrupted and reduced through women joining forces to notice and discourage against these double standards in action (Jackson & Cram, 2003). “Female comedians, historically, have had to adopt a limited range of personae to intervene in this world, either embodying aggressive models of the “bitch” or “bawd,” or more passive “reporter” or whiner” roles (Gilbert).” Men feat women’s humor for much of the same reason that they fear women’s sexual freedom- because they encourage women’s aggression and promiscuity and thus disrupt the social order; that therefore men desire to control women’s humor just as they desire to control women’s sexuality – to wit, in the public

In academic writing for this semester had the primary focus to identify and explain humor theories. In class, we would have power point that introduced new humor theories and go in depth about how each literary term would go back to humor. When writing, I not only keep the prompt in my mind, but also humor theory. The progress I have made with my reading skills in terms of identifying main idea, major support, and minor support is by separating them a part. For example, when identify a main idea, it is usually the first or last sentence of a paragraph as well as the author giving supporting information to the main idea. This also gives the reader the knowledge of where the major support sentences are since it sheds light upon the main idea.

Humor is found across the world to make people happier, but humor can also contain some deeper meanings. Whether it's in a skit, film, or even cartoon, humorists quite often hint at more mature topics. Serious topics are easier to talk about when they are surrounded by humor.

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The concept humor refers to the state of funniness and for people to be humorous they should find a particular action or state of affairs funny. Social life, gender, age, race, educational level, political attitudes, and mood of an individual influence humor. This terminology can be subjective as well as objective. In this respect, the definition of what constitutes humor is unlimited (Clark 20-23). According to Aristotle, humor is handy in political moderation, for it makes one’s character moderate. Humor can remind us of what is important in life, it makes one laugh at what looks funnily odd. In this respect, the laughter is mocking. Furthermore, one gets to learn about what invokes emotions and amusement. In life, anything that brings joy to the heart counts a lot to human survival. “In Goscinny's scenario, the Gauls learn about Caesar's praise when they notice that the Romans in the camps near their village are happy and light-hearted because they are grateful to return alive from their campaigns against the Belgae” (Vines 1228-1229)