“One should learn to smile through adversity, laugh to relieve tension, joke with subordinates at work, and so on. With a sense of humor people will enjoy better bodily and psychological health, relationships will run more smoothly and business will be more productive. In this image, humor offers many important possibilities for making the world a positively better place.” (Billigs) I’m sure that when each of us thinks of malicious laughter, we think of the mean cheerleaders in movies, the jocks that haze freshmen and then laugh about it, and a friend making fun of their other friends just to try to fit in; all of these instances do exist, but is it fair to place humor and laughter as the key component of these awful parts of adolescence? “The argument connects humor with discipline and, hence, with power.…