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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I mean they have to hit you with just the right amount of a lot of things to make you funny, but I’d put a lot of determiners far ahead of any possible correlation to trauma

critical/analytical thinking
a personality that sees ‘attention’ as a reward
strong social drive and desire to please others
communication skills

To be more ‘funny’ than ‘suicidal,’ wouldn’t the right amount of trauma always be as little trauma as possible?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Not really, I'd say it depends on the person

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Valid point. But, there are many reasons people are funny and like funny things. Sometimes I get the feel that I am laughing at something just to forget the harshness in life. Bo Burnham in "What's Funny" explains it better:

"Humor is often linked to shared experience

Like, a guy gets up and says

"Have you noticed that public restrooms have really inefficient hand-dryers?"

Oh, my god! Yes, I have!

Ha-ha-ha, really good point

They should fix that...

It's good to know that somebody finally gets me

Because my wife divorced me, which subconsciously forced me

To lose all sense of self

So, it's nice to think about hand-dryers and not that cheating whore"