How to Be Funny
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~ Victor Borge
Having a funny disposition can prove a positive way of viewing life and your place in the world. A good sense of humor has many benefits, from personal happiness to making you the life and soul of a party, to helping you see the lighter side of life and sharing your irreverent sense of challenging situations with those more seriously inclined. Being funny is recognized as an important part of job hires too – a survey of 737 CEOs found that 98 percent of them favored hiring someone with a sense of humor over someone who didn't display such a sense.[1]
Being funny is not about being flippant or frivolous – it's about being genuinely humorous and encouraging other people to have a good laugh. And while it might be a little challenging changing your outlook about the role of good humor in your life, bein
g funny is something innate, and wanting to be funnier is the first fabulous step to becoming that way! Shuck off your stern self and tickle your funny bone with the following fun steps!
Steps
1、Trust in your innate sense of humor. Being funny doesn't come in "one-size-fits-all"; what makes you funny is unique to you and the way you observe the world. Focus first on what you find funny in life and learn from your own reactions to the things that make you laugh. Trust that you do have a funny bone – as babies we laugh from 4 months of age, and all children express humor naturally from kindergarten age, using humor to entertain themselves and others, with riddles, knock knock jokes, laughing at themselves, and even using physical slapstick humor.[2] So it's already in you – you just need to bring it forth again!
Find the things that make you laugh. Search for books, movies, TV shows, photos, stories, words, poems, people, work incidents, pet follies, near catastrophes, etc., th
at you've found funny. Keep a note of them.
Do funny things and enjoy the things that make you laugh more often. Indulge in reading a comic strip, share jokes with the kids, give in to "silly things" just because they're funny, and laugh as often as you can.
2、Learn a little about what makes us laugh. Laughter is generally the desired result of anyone seeking to be funny, and usually this is because we view laughter as a sign of happiness or as a release of tension. Laughter itself is unconscious – while it is possible for us to inhibit our laughter consciously (although not always successfully!), it is very hard for us to produce laughter on demand, and doing so will usually seem "forced".[3][4] Fortunately, laughter is very contagious (we're about 30 times more likely to laugh in the presence of others),[5] and in a social context, it's easy to start laughing when others are laughing.[6] Getting people to laugh, therefore, requires genuine humor, which is definitely about more than reciting hackneyed jokes!
、What makes us laugh foremost includes feeling a sense of superiority over someone else behaving "dumber" than us, or being surprised by the incongruity of something, or by feeling a welcomed relief from an anxiety.[7] And for many of us, seeing our own frustrations reflected back at us by someone who clearly understands a familiar predicament or situation and injects levity into responding to it nearly always improves our mood!
、Keep in mind that while good joke-telling is an art form in and of itself, it is not a requisite for being funny. Not being able to remember jokes does not doom you to being humorless! Indeed, research by scientists at Washington State University has shown that a joke poorly told can be funny in its own right depending on who you tell it to; it's possible we have a tendency to find being let down by bad humor cause for amusement too![8]
、Different things make different people laugh – it's important to keep this in mind when it doesn't seem that someone is responsive to your being funny.
3、Learn the key foundations of being funny. In a nutshell, as good comedians already know, being funny boils down to good timing and taking the best advantage of the context. This is why learning long lists of jokes won't necessarily make you "funny" because you still need to grasp the levity of a situation as it's unfolding before you, within the context of those present and the precise facts of each situation. Here are some of the basic components of being funny:
be about toMisleading the mind, surprise, or cognitive incongruity: Verbal jokes use this element to the greatest level possible, trying to misdirect your attention much the same as a magic trick seeks to do.[9] Basically, this technique relies on cognitive processing errors, turning assumptions upside down, and word confusion. For example: "What happens to liars when they die?" Answer - "They lie still." This joke works because you have to interpret the joke in two ways, and the brain is temporarily confused by its inability to draw on usual experience.[10] All of this happens quickly and unconsciously, and humor becomes your brain's "graceful" way of coping with the mixed signals; if you "get" the joke, you'll be laughing.

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