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What is the best way to add to your sense of humor?
Posted in Humor by admin on March 13th, 2010
Are there certain websites you visit often – certain magazines you read that add to your sense of humor (good for conversation subjects)? Other sources you check out? Or – what do you do to improve it based on your experience. 
I have a good sense of humor – just looking for ways to take advantage of it.
Learn to laugh at yourself. There’s a ton of material there, yet most people never tap into it.
As an ice breaker, self-effacing humor is the best for putting people at ease around you. The impression is that you are honest, intelligent, and humble. In other words…interesting.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I go to a lot of recap sites, mostly for TV shows I hate and books I used to like.
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March 13th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
The first step is to be open-minded, and more importantly, to understand that others can be as funny, or better than yourself. As for good conversation subjects, the daily NEWS should provide enough ideas/material to start/maintain funny/intelligent conversations.
Above all, an entire conversation need not be fully humorous. There’s nothing more unsightly than a person who tries to force himself/herself to be funny in every statement he/she makes.
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March 13th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Based on my experience, you’re either funny or you’re not. You can learn to be funnier over time by picking up things from the people around you, but then you’re in danger of copying them. Life experience in general makes you funny. Tales of funny things that have happened to you over the years. There really is no easy way to be funny. You’ve either got it or you don’t.
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March 13th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Learn to laugh at yourself. There’s a ton of material there, yet most people never tap into it.
As an ice breaker, self-effacing humor is the best for putting people at ease around you. The impression is that you are honest, intelligent, and humble. In other words…interesting.
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March 13th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
The deadliest conversations are built around the nature of humor, so I type here only from a sense of duty.
You add to your sense of humor by adding to your awareness of what is NOT. Most humor comes of the contrast between ‘what is here and now represented’ and ‘what is not here and now represented.’
As example: "Can I use your cell phone for a minute?" Is not an inherently funny line. It might be found humorous, if that routine polite request is absurd in its context, or if the ‘use’ of the cell phone is bizarrely unexpected, or if the response is grotesque, etc. There must be a contrast between the linear understanding (with its expectations) and the understood actuality of situation (with its expectations).
The implication here is that the more you know about many and varied situations and possibilities, the more often you will find opportunity to find things funny.
Obviously, this understanding of humor overlooks ‘cannibal humor’ that simply takes delight in pain of others. But I have no intention of helping you there. If you laugh at a dog with a fish hook caught in its nose, I won’t tell you how to make that funnier. Nor will I explain how it is that I know how to make it funnier.
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