Monday, November 24, 2008

What is so funny?



K, how many of you laughed also at this vid? k honestly, i also find it a little funny, but i now want to know why..k, it kinda happened during camp, where we were..er.."teaching" a boy on problem solving skills..his methods of solving the situation we put him in was rather hilarious..today when i was watching the planet's funniest animals on animal planet, i saw something like the vid above..it was a girl blowing bubbles and a dog was eating them..the girl was laughing, and can say she is about 3-5 years old..

so why do we find such things funny? i would guess that it is because we are intelectual beings, and what amuses us are things that we consider down right stupid or uninteligent, that when someone or something does it, it kinda shows us the inteligence level of that person..as in the vid above, which person in their right mind will eat bubbles or soap suds?..so why do we laugh? well, a conclusion (you can say a theory, and it is something that im thinking of myself..if it is an actual theory, then this is purely coincidental) that i can draw up is that when people or animals do stupid things, it makes us feel good cuz it shows us something or someone who is less inteligent than us..haha,yea it is a very freudian conclusion..but yea, i remember when i was in ben's house, watching this add for worlds most amazing videos, where a motorcyclist just rams into a truck, and ben just burst out laughing..i mean, yea it was sooo stupid of d guy..

anyway, on a side note, i think that shows like america's funniest home vids and whacked out sports are viewed more than shows like the planets funniest animals..k, i would like to "hypothesize" that the more inteligent the being is, the funnier the event will be..so shows that have humans acting stupid should be considered more funny than shows with animals..however, it is not that just for me to say that without mentioning those ppl who just hate these shows..i would say that these ppl have very high levels of empathy, where they empathize the the subject on the screen or infront of them..haha..to be more psychological, maybe these ppl have high levels of being phlegmatic where they want everyone around them to be pleased with them..

k, i understand humour actually depends on individuals, like i can write a joke now, and some will find it funny and some dont..n everything i wrote here is just from my thoughts..pls DO NOT qoute me, because it is not supported by any research wat-so-ever..haha, just finished all my reports for coll, so i was still kinda in the mood to keep analyzing and writting..so yea, these is KINDA like the stuff we write in our psych reports just that we have to back it up with past research and it has to be WAAAAY more lengthy..if u were wondering what are my reports are like..haha..

Cheers

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