The Science Of Being Funny

some people are what you would describe as funny humorous or overall completely stupid but why is it that things like naive stupidity overe exaggeration and unexpected twists give you a mini seizure why does it happen anytime theovon communicates and how can you make it happen to other people well there are four big things step one know what's funny at the humor research lab a few dudes came up with something called the benign violation Theory this theory states that humor occurs when and only when three things happen there is a violation the situation is benign both

these things happen at the same time thank you Eminem also what sort of poshi language is benign and is it German no it's Latin and it means kind or not harmful cool so if something is funny it is an unharmful or benign violation what is a violation in this context it's anything that threatens the way you believe the world should be or threatens the norm violations have many fonts including physical identity cultural communication logical and moral let me give you an example if I were to come up to you on the street and start punching

you in the stomach you probably won't laugh and may even be upset this is a pure physical violation find instead were to start tickling you that would be even weirder and still a pure violation because you don't know me but if a friend tries to tickle you odds are you're going to slip a giggle even if me and your friend have the same exact tickling technique you almost certainly won't find mine amusing but with your friend you know you are safe and the environment is benign and therefore you squeal like a little girl other things

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so how can you make a violation benign in a joke for example one way is to not be strongly committed to the violated Norm this is a slippery slope and can be overdone for example if I were to say wouldn't it be funny if before every joke everything would be too benign and the jokes wouldn't be as funny because the threat is an absolute zero a better method is subtle sarcasm you can tell the violation isn't going to happen but also no one ever outright said it wouldn't another method is to make the violation psychologically

distant so jokes about the Titanic today could be funny because the tragedy is very very distant and also because there was definitely room on that door this is why people might say I can joke about it now now a while after some bad incident like a breakup because while the violation obviously still happened it was a while ago and it doesn't feel as real you can also apply this to things that are going to happen in the future or things that are happening now on other parts of the world and the final method to make

a violation benign is if there's some alternative explanation that somehow makes the violation okay this explains tickling because it's a mock attack still an attack but not a dangerous one but not in violation step two know your victim you may be thinking bro you're talking about humor luggage the same every time but the jokes I make with the boys won't work on my mom and that's true humor is subjective this is because everyone has different perspectives or opinions on what is benign and what is a violation so before you try that orphan joke on beatric

feel it out get to know her first she seems like the type give it a shot and when the joke flops run to your room slam the door and play some War Thunder step three good joke qualities if you ask a comedian what makes a joke good they're likely going to tell you three things first brevity is the soul of wit AKA get to the point no one wants to hear you ramble everyone wants to hear the punch line second be specific saying so I told the old grandma dot dot dot isn't as funny as

saying so I told beatric dot dot dot notice too how this specific one took up less words you don't have to sacrifice brevity for specificity get creative third the rule of three if you're listing things with the plan to list something drastically different at the end to be funny list three of them two normal ones to make a pattern and one at the end to break it you're establishing what's benign yourself and then making the violation step four make bad jokes if your goal is to become a more funny person this is the most important

step of the whole video and you will 100% fail without it let's talk about neuroplasticity when you're learning pretty much anything there are two results failure and success in order for neuroplasticity to activate in your brain it needs to have a reason this is why ultimately making bad jokes will make you funnier it's because you failed and because of that failure your brain is really open to making new neural connections releasing a few specific neural chemicals or in other words increasing plasticity so when you're with your friends and you throw out five bad jokes before

one lands because you previously threw out the five bad jokes your brain is incredibly keen on subconsciously noting what worked with your success and what didn't with your failures then technically the actual Improvement happens later during sleep if you just make a good joke at the start your brain doesn't note anything it doesn't particularly take into account what just worked those neurochemicals aren't released with that joke meaning your brain is not in a state of plasticity after all it has no reason to be that's why making bad jokes is vital and with that said allow

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