How do jokes come about?

Worry so much every day, it's enough to watch jokes. We encounter some annoying things more or less every day, but some people are good at solving them, while others are not so good at solving them. When we are unhappy, we all have our own favorite ways to deal with it. Some people choose positive ways, such as running, listening to music, dancing and singing, while others choose negative ways, such as drinking, smoking or playing games with some friends. In addition to the positive and negative ways, I think there should be a neutral way to deal with it, such as watching jokes and letting your pressure release in laughter, which is also a better way to relieve pressure. In fact, whether we are happy or not, jokes are always welcome. After all, laughing is ten years old. Although we often read some jokes, I think few people think about how they come into being and what kind of logic there is between jokes. The theme I want to share with you today is "the basic formula of jokes".

Duanzi = bedding+luggage. Generally speaking, a joke consists of two parts. We usually call the first half bedding, and the second half luggage. Among them, paving the way is to establish the first idea, and its purpose is to guide us to direction A; The burden is to reveal the second idea, and its purpose is to lead us in another direction, so that we have a sense of surprise and laughter. What needs to be noted here is that the first half of the preparation does not need to be funny. We just need to state a fact, the more serious the better. The funny part lies in the burden of the second half. For example, Zhang Wei said on a TV program that everyone should love small animals because they are very delicious. The first half of this sentence "everyone should love small animals" is the foreshadowing. Seeing this sentence, most of us will think that everyone should protect small animals because of environmental protection. As a star, it is right to advocate the protection of small animals, so most people will think in this direction, which is the first direction A of this sentence. The second half of this sentence "because they are delicious" is a kind of burden, which turns these small animals into food and leads us to direction B. In this way, a sense of surprise and humor is produced.

The obvious is easy to be found, while the hidden is often easy to be ignored. In fact, there is a hidden thing in the basic formula of the paragraph. If we want to write a paragraph well, or make the logic of the paragraph clear, we must find it. As we all know, as long as we complete the turn between bedding and luggage, we will have a sense of surprise. Then how can we turn around perfectly? This is the second knowledge point to share today-connectives. The conjunctions mentioned here are tacit knowledge hidden in the basic formulas of paragraphs. What is a conjunction? Conjunction contains three main points: first, it is a conceptual word; Second, it must be able to make two explanations; Third, its position is in the foreshadowing part. There is a joke written like this: playing mobile phone in class will really lead to a decline in grades, which I have a deep understanding of. I didn't teach them much because I played with my mobile phone all the time last semester. In this joke, "playing mobile phone in class" is a conjunction. Seeing this sentence, most people first think of students playing mobile phones in class, which is the mindset given to us by the whole social context. But in the second half of the joke, the topic of playing mobile phones was changed to teachers, which led to a decline in grades, and this joke was formed.

Finally, briefly talk about the third knowledge point in the formula: misleading reinforcement. What is misleading reinforcement? Is to add a short sentence between bedding and luggage. The function of this short sentence is to make the people who are watching jokes more dead-set to believe in the misleading in the bedding, with the aim of blinding them and leaving them completely unprepared. "I have a deep understanding of this" in the joke of playing mobile phone in class just now is misleading and reinforcing. Finally, it should be noted that misleading reinforcement is only a plus item, not a mandatory option. Not all paragraphs have misleading reinforcement, but if there is one paragraph, it will be better to shake off the baggage behind.