227 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Jul \ on: Parent’s Corner: Belly Laughter mostly_harmless
My daughter's become obsessed with trying to make people laugh. She's quite a bit funnier when she's not trying, though.
ime being funny requires an awkward period of obvious intent to learn how to hide intent and the impact of intent - and to deepen intuition about humor.
When I was grocery bagger, in addition to bagging, I had to talk people into letting me take their groceries to their car. It was boring and my mind needs a task, so I'd play a game where I tried to make each of them laugh. In the end what I learned is that humor largely comes from consistently exploring something deeply. Everything beyond what's assumed is surprising (often benignly threatening) and incongruent merely at a factual level which is 9/10s of humor. The other 10th is emphasis/delivery if I'm not missing other things.
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@k00b learning to humor
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Trust you to turn it into an explicit Science
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You‘re funnier when you don‘t try to be funny
That’s what people told me in school. I might never mentally recovered from this.
It’s hard to not try to be funny when you like to make people laugh.
Maybe it’s an expectation thing: I shouldn’t hope that they laugh but just say stuff because I think it’s funny 🤔
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FWIW, I think you're funny when you're trying to be funny.
lol, I think you try hard at everything you do
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Do you ever humour her by fake laughing?
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No. She gets enough genuine laughs that I don't feel the need.
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