Funny Meaning Of Humor

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With everything we do there is a potential for a humorous joke and a good laugh. Slamming face first into a glass sliding door, falling into a pit during high school, or tripping in front of your crush is something we have all experienced and can relate to. Humans by nature tend to gravitate to the more positive side of life and between the choice to laugh or to cry we will almost always choose to laugh. Humor is something that comes naturally and is subtle; it is not forced. Humor is based off of real life situations that are not extremely over-exaggerated. It touches you by being relatable, knowing these scenarios are possible and can happen to you as well. From everyday life, humor is born. Entertainment that employs slapstick

Similarly, in The Office, Dwight Shrute, a very serious paper salesman and beat farmer, constantly trying to become manager and get his co-worker Jim Halpert, another paper salesman, fired, and Angela Martin, a stuck up blonde woman who -spoiler alert- is his secret lover and becomes his wife in the last season, goes to ask Toby Flenderson, a human resources representative, questions about gay men. Dwight, with Angela by his side, asks “Where are gay men 's vaginas?” Toby shakes his head and tells Dwight that they do not in fact have vaginas. Dwight then proceeds asks “When two gay men have sex how do they know whose penis will open up to accept the other person 's penis?” This is extremely humorous because it is common knowledge that neither of these things happen and to think someone believes this is even possible is too funny not to laugh at. Although this would be considered low brow humor as well, the subtleness of the joke and the timing make it more humorous than grotesque; The joke is not over amplified and made into a big situation and the casualness of it is what makes the scene so uncomfortable therefore easy to laugh at. The viewer can empathize with Toby and share that same level of awkward and uneasiness portrayed in the scene; The discomfort on Toby’s

These three scenarios are all possibilities for real world problems. Humor is not extremely obvious, in your face, tripping and slamming into a door while a laugh track from the early 1990’ plays in the background, reminding you when you are or are not supposed to laugh, it is not a movie with someone stepping on a rake while the sound producer adds in a “BOINGGG” noise in the background, trying oh so hard to make the audience laugh, and lastly it is not someone stuck on the toilet with extreme stomach problems make a ridiculous amount of noise and movement as if they were giving birth to baby missiles. Real humor is not