In spite of other people’s tellings it is not very tough to develop into a funnier women (man). Explaining why is it that we find things amusing (from a important neurologists way of thinking), should be the first thing to achieve. Each time when we learn something we have not known earlier, the mind makes a new route leading from one brain cell to another.
That ”route” what we call a synapse and it works like this:
Imagine we think of food, and recall that the bananas are food, the brain shall estabilish a synapse (that gets harder), connecting the neural cells that acquire all of the facts we have on food, and those with the given fruit. In the future, there are good odds that when you think about food, you'll think of apples, too. You're probably thinking, what does that have to do with me getting funnier? But, it's pretty much all about it, it's actually the way humor works.
Everything starts with you hearing a plain and common story. Stand-up comedians call this a setup. Now, you're supposed to think about this story in a certain way. Your brain makes connections from this setup to a punch-line that you think will follow. But that someone, will not tell you the punch-line you had in mind, but instead a different one, and you'll laugh about it. There are chances you still have no idea what I am trying to say, so this example should be of help.
The Setup:
What is the most satisfying thing next to being shot at and missed?
The Punch-line:
An income tax refund.
How different was the punch-line you thought of? I am sure you have thought that the car is being driven by one of the three men. People usually think that way, as our brain was forced to think like that. You surely noticed that the punch-line is very different than the one you had in mind. Remember this good, because it is a basic principle of the way humor works.
A good setup is of great importance. Good comedians will always have a setup that only delivers the basic facts, so that there are many possible punch-lines you can think of. The more you think your punch-line is the most fitting one, the more will the actually punch-line make you laugh. In case you have already heard the joke, it will probably not be as funny, simply because your brain knows the punch-line, therefore it won't create any new routes.
This should be helpful if you want to make up some new funny jokes. When a man tells something that all the folk thinks about in the same way, but you figure out an unexpected way to understand it. Now, if you tell this to others, it should be funny.
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