Nervous laughter

sunlight, creating a brilliant glow. We walked closer and began to climb up the steep, muddy ledge that hung over the side of the river. My feet slipped and squished in the mud, which caused me to lose my balance. However, thanks to Mengare’s steady hand, I didn’t collapse into the thick, black mud. However, my lack of balance made Mengare howl with laughter. This only worsened my case, because her laughter was making me laugh, which made me slip more. I imagine that we looked quite silly up…

awkward. Like when Cam and Mitchell’s daughter Lily says, “My friend Aldo’s parents are Italian, so he is Italian. And you and daddy are gay. So I am gay.” Statements like this remind me of the funny yet innocent ways my siblings come to conclusions. For example, when I asked my first grade sister what ethnicity she is she replied with, “Peach!” I have always known; if you ask my siblings a question, expect a funny reply. They always pack a good laugh when you listen to their radical ideas;…

Ignorant New World Why do people laugh? Is it an effect from a witty joke, a nervous tic, or perhaps a humorous accident? Whatever the reason is, laughter is a contagious and social occurrence. In the book, Brave New World, there are many circumstances where laughter takes place. However, the people in the book are not necessarily aware of what they are laughing about. It is not that they are replacing thinking with laughter, instead, they do not have the ability to comprehend what they are…

According to the Collins dictionary, a joke ‘is something that is said or done to make you laugh, for example a funny story’(***). According to Long and Graesser in the Wit and Humor in Discourse Processing, a joke is a type of humour, which is intentionally performed or narrated with the purpose of reaching the humours outcome, that is laughter(1988: p. 37). Unlike wit, that often recounts and relates to the previous happenings, jokes contain all the information needed to be able to understand…

become a more confident, successful individual, while Biff is cleaning the McFly family’s cars. Contextualizing the shot from 1:49:03 to 1:49:09, Marty is seeing this new Biff for the first time, while George making sure that Biff doesn’t “con” him and puts two coats of wax on the car. As the shot begins, Biff is in the middle ground in an extreme long shot; the camera seems to be elevated above where Biff stands, at maybe a normal shoulder level. After being yelled at, Biff comes around from…

Courtney managed to say as her whole body was paralyzed, “I don’t remember where everything is.” “I’m taking that bubble bath,” Beverly stated, she grabbed her suitcase and directed towards the wooden staircase. Billie took her coat off and tossed the keys to Courtney, she picked up her suitcase following Beverly upstairs. She stopped at the first step to say, “Don’t wreck my car, okay?” she laughed but then noticed Courtney’s face losing pigment. “What’s wrong? You seem kind of scared,…

No matter how well you paint a smile on a clown, you can never cover the true emotions under their mask. As much as we hate to admit it, humor has moved away from its actual purpose. Instead of using jokes purely for the entertainment of ourselves and others, we are using humor to hide and hurt. You see examples of this behavior everywhere, from self-deprecation to the election of our new president. Just how much of what say is “humor” is actually considered humorous? Just what have we morphed…

Where is my heart? I couldn’t help but feel small while resting in the clouds. Depositing all my trust in the machinery I sat in made my stomach sink, and I couldn’t help but feel the slightest bit nervous. Then it appeared, the country I had no idea I would fall in love with eight days later. Port-au –Prince, Haiti laid directly below me; complete destruction enveloped my vision. Four years earlier, following the earthquake that devastated Haiti, seeing it remain in ruins, made my heart sink.…

self-deprecating humor. People respond with laughter, and it passes for a nice joke, but there is true pain hiding behind the joker's smile. This can become offensive if someone other than that one person speaks about an insecurity they have. The side effect being, possibly, depression which could lead to self-harm. It is important to note that Cyrano’s character is displayed as a well-known poet and cadet who is commonly in trouble. He is also effortless to speak to, however while speaking to…

scared to say no. I came intp the next class and stood at the front confident and ready to read my paper. I began reading and at first one or two of the students laughed but as I kept reading the mood changed and it became dead silent. They thought that I seriously wanted to change these rules. In the silence I began to feel less and less confident in my paper. My cheeks began to burn and I broke out into a nervous sweat. I continued to read my paper to the group of students who now thought that…