Wouldn’t you say the best humor is the kind you relate to? Like the moment when the girl on T.V, dancing on a table, falls off; you get that deep gut laugh because a similar embarrassing memory is emerging and it takes you back to the time when the phrase “I feel your pain” became literal. Humor is all around. Even little babies who have no concept of what humor is — let alone how to spell or function on their own — know that a fart can be funny. Humor has no hold on age, gender, race, or culture. That is why humor is a universal language. It has many forms and functions but in the end there is always a smile. Go ahead and laugh at someone on Americas Funniest Home Videos or that stand up comedian telling his somewhat parallel life
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Yes. There are lines and boundaries that some humor is known to cross. This humor may also be referred to as extreme humor. This kind of humor is out to offend as many people as possible like South Park. South Park recently aired an episode on gender identity — a pressing topic with much hype in the news — it was the show’s core mission to jab at the transgender community. Anyone can Google the word transgender: first you will see a definition of what the word transgender means, second you will see the most recent news involving the topic, third you will see websites dedicated to pressing issues facing transgender children and adults, and fourth you will see the death rates of transgender men and women, teens and adults. If you read into the death rates of the transgender community, you will find murder is at an all time high next to suicide for people dealing with gender identity — a permanent solution to their torment. When watching extreme humor, poking at issues with severe anguish and adversity behind them, I cringe. I see no common grounds for humor and torment to co-exist. I simply cannot relate to or laugh at unsettling humor like South Park. On the flip side humor can be used to bring light to uncomfortable or sensitive issues not able to be talked about in any other light, like gender identity. When we laugh, we loosen up like in the situation of watching a passionate sex scene with your parents and the awkward silence is broken with mom or dad saying, “well this is awkward.” If we can’t laugh at ourselves whom can we laugh at? Mark Twain once said, “Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” A quote well versed yet glossed over. Humor has profound effects. It can influence your day, influence your mood, and influence your actions. Best of all humor is our best friend; it closes the gaps of miss communication, forms new relationships, mends broken hearts, and simply just makes people happy. To
Yes. There are lines and boundaries that some humor is known to cross. This humor may also be referred to as extreme humor. This kind of humor is out to offend as many people as possible like South Park. South Park recently aired an episode on gender identity — a pressing topic with much hype in the news — it was the show’s core mission to jab at the transgender community. Anyone can Google the word transgender: first you will see a definition of what the word transgender means, second you will see the most recent news involving the topic, third you will see websites dedicated to pressing issues facing transgender children and adults, and fourth you will see the death rates of transgender men and women, teens and adults. If you read into the death rates of the transgender community, you will find murder is at an all time high next to suicide for people dealing with gender identity — a permanent solution to their torment. When watching extreme humor, poking at issues with severe anguish and adversity behind them, I cringe. I see no common grounds for humor and torment to co-exist. I simply cannot relate to or laugh at unsettling humor like South Park. On the flip side humor can be used to bring light to uncomfortable or sensitive issues not able to be talked about in any other light, like gender identity. When we laugh, we loosen up like in the situation of watching a passionate sex scene with your parents and the awkward silence is broken with mom or dad saying, “well this is awkward.” If we can’t laugh at ourselves whom can we laugh at? Mark Twain once said, “Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” A quote well versed yet glossed over. Humor has profound effects. It can influence your day, influence your mood, and influence your actions. Best of all humor is our best friend; it closes the gaps of miss communication, forms new relationships, mends broken hearts, and simply just makes people happy. To