Josh Abrams
The Psychology of Jokes
If your reading this then you either consider yourself to be a funny person or have been told that you are a funny person by large amounts of people throughout your life. So then you have most likely at one point in your life been put into the situation where your forced/expected to be funny and a majority of the time you end up not being. This is due to the unrealistically high expectations people have of us, the funnies. The funnies being the people known to be frequently witty and/or comedic by others. It sucks to be put on the spot suddenly and be expected to entertain. But we have all been in that situation where someone has said something along the lines of, “hey! your funny, make me laugh.” and then we try to come up with something on the spot and no one laughs and we all feel ashamed. Its a crappy situation to be in because most of the time the person demanding that you be funny is someone whos is known to be douchey and then when you fail as you are expected to, your reputation as a funny person is at risk. Unfortunately, their is no way out of these situations where we can make both parties happy, especially since the other person is hoping we fail. So I think the next time we, the funnies, are put into situations like these we should just crap in our hands and throw it at them, not unlike a monkey.
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