The value of humor

Humor is important. With humans doomed to work a good chunk of their lives and a large chunk of the rest of the time sleeping, good humor is hard to find/run into and so it really helps quality of life to be able to be clever and come up with jokes/references that make people smile.

Not many people can do that. It's a gift/talent. It's not even as simple as coming up with something objective. It's knowing where you are, who you're talking to, whether the moment is appropriate. I make my wife laugh a lot and this is one of the key elements that draw us to each other. I always tell her about the scene in "who framed Roger Rabbit" where the detective asks Jessica Rabbit what she saw in Roger. She said "He makes me laugh". It was retardedly simple.

You can't buy humor. You're lucky if you run into it and if you find it somewhere you have to take advantage while it's there. Movies are short and TV shows run out, but funny people really just constantly keep coming with funny shit because their personality stays the same.

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I think I learn a lot more from a presentation that's partly funny or otherwise interesting than just full of important things.

>>18698468
Here's one I've got for you: my girlfriend uses humor as a defense mechanism against trauma.

She was sexually abused as a child, but she found when she became able to joke about it (horrible edgy inappropriate jokes, but ones she found genuinely funny all the same) it helped her cope with the trauma. It minimized the damage a little because she could laugh at it. And she's exactly the same today. We've been dealing with a miscarriage in the last month or so. She's still pretty broken up about it, but I know she's on the mend because she made a "be nice to me I'm miscarrying" joke by sheer instinct to one of her colleagues. I thought it was hilarious because I'm kinda fucked up too, but the colleague not so much.

But there you go, that's an important way some people use humor, as therapy.

>>18698584
I'm with this anon here. Ive done a little research into comedy and it always comes back to a therapeutic way of dealing with issues. Whether that's everyday things everyone goes through for relatability or dark humor to cleanse the minds of us who've been through the ringer but can come out the other end laughing. Comedians are also moral detectives, it shows us how blurry and malleable morality can be and what ohr boundaries as people are.