Why is it so funny

There will always be unhappy times in life. At this time, if you have a humorous person around you and tell you two jokes, you will suddenly feel much better. So, why are jokes so funny? How does it make people laugh? What the hell are we laughing at?

Many jokes have an obvious feature, that is, the people in the jokes are stupid and will misunderstand an obvious situation and ridicule another arrogant person. We can gain a sense of superiority through such jokes. As early as 400 BC, Plato, an ancient Greek scholar, mentioned this theory in the Republic. "Superiority" theorists believe that laughter comes from the action of grinning, just like "the roar of the winner in the ancient jungle duel". Aristotle also supports this view. He thinks that many clowns and comedians make us laugh by creating a sense of superiority.

The joke shows that the function of superiority coincides with Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. In Freud's view, jokes are a way to vent one's mind, which can avoid making the mind excessively depressed. In other words, jokes can help us fight against those factors that make us feel uneasy. It can be seen that the life problems that make us feel intense will make us laugh. Among them, the classic is "Fu-style joke", which is what we often call "yellow joke". For example: at home at night, my husband's mobile phone is on the ground and connected to the computer host to charge.

Later, my sister-in-law called and said she wanted to ask something.

So my husband squatted on the ground and told her.

The wife lying in bed, feeling very uncomfortable, said, "Honey, when you answer the phone, can't you pull it out first?"

My sister-in-law is on the other end of the phone. Wow, she hung up.

"Oh, I'm sorry," my sister-in-law said with a smile.

Later, my husband reacted and hurried back.

Sister-in-law: "Wow, brother-in-law, what took you so long this time!" "

Seeing this, many people will feel dissatisfied, people's sexual desire has been awakened, and their inner feelings have been vented.

There is also a joke that makes people laugh with self-mockery and self-mockery. For example, when I was a child, I remember seeing a boy with delicate facial features, delicate face, pure breath and clear eyes, like an out-of-touch elf. I was excited for several days and nights, and then asked my mother who he was. My mother told me it was called a mirror.

Behind this joke is deep anxiety. When we laugh off these anxieties, we can get rid of this fear or anxiety more easily. For example, we often hear "thank my roommate for not killing".

In addition, some jokes may not have obvious emotional color. This kind of joke makes people laugh by taking advantage of the relaxed feeling of the moment when our brain suddenly realizes after high-speed operation. Like many brain teasers, we thought for a long time and suddenly thought of the answer, "Ah! I see. " This feeling of knowing a smile.

We laugh for various reasons. Laughter is a good anti-stress medicine, so no matter how bad the situation is, we should try to "smile", smile to face tomorrow and smile to face life.