The Gift of Humour

Comedians exist for a reason, to make people laugh, and they are needed because we never have enough laughs to go around, people are sooooo serious these days.

You would think that humour is expensive, but it is the cheapest thing around. It just needs oxygen to fuel it.

I now have a Jackass in my car, it’s been two years now, you may have seen a picture of it, it travels with me as well, to different countries. You see, the Jackass reminds me to be humorous; we all have a Jackass around us in some form or other. Mine happens to be inert.

Without humour what is the fun in that? Humour comes in many forms, speech, body language ( Mr. Bean), drawings, sounds, sight, smell, and even touch. Within these categories are sub categories such as dry humour, dark humour, wry humour, pumpernickel humour and so on…..

There is humour within all our senses. For instance, with smell, have you ever smelled something funny? I have many times, and the smell made me laugh, like when someone farted and it actually did not smell bad. I say: “I say, funny smell that is!” (English joke.)

Why do we say that something smells funny when it doesn’t?

Humour is a healing tool as well, which you can use to try to take someone out of depression. Cancer patients come to mind as well.

I have a friend (let’s call her Julie) who every time we meet, I cannot help grinning from ear to ear laughing with her as we talk, punning words together by saying things like: “Aren’t we having a pun time now Hulie!”

Silliness and humour are contagious, and can be transmitted from person to person through gestures, speech and touch, you don’t even have to be a compatible match, but just open minded to receive the vibes and embrace the laughter and good will.

We hide behind our invented façade of ourselves hoping that humour is not directed at us, because there is such a thing as bad humour and who wants that directed at them at their expense.

Bad humour can be cruelty and can destroy a person’s self-esteem in a flash. Bullies create bad humour in order to punish you down to a lower level than them, so that they can feel superior. Bad humour is usually ill-conceived and is created on the spot without thinking and when left unchecked can take on a life of its own.

Wry humour is sarcasm, which can be used positively or negatively.

How many types of humour are there? Too many to mention, BUT, the one humour that I think needs to be mentioned is a good sense of humour. When we have a good sense of humour, we are evoking our feelings outward towards the universe, and if it is a general sense of humour, everyone benefits.

Humour has a short word at the end of it (our) so for me that means that everyone should benefit from the humour without being the butt of jokes at anyone’s expense.

Believe it or not, dating web sites like eHarmony use algorithms to analyse humour to better pair up a couple. For what better judge of compatibility than like-minded humour. Imagine putting two people together who have opposite senses of humour. A practical Joker, conjoined with a witty humourist would not be my coupled preference.

A guy meets a sex worker in a bar.

She says: “This is your lucky night. I’ve got a special game for you. I’ll do absolutely anything you want for $300 as long as you can say it in three words.”

The guy replies, “Hey, sure, why not?”

He pulls his wallet out of his pocket and lays $300 on the bar, and says slowly.

“Paint…my…house.”

Observational humour runs rampant today in society. I actually use observational humour when I drive, and send the finger messages out.

Sign language humour works best for me behind the wheel of a car. It doesn’t work on a blind person, but it does if someone is deaf.

Just sayin’.