RE: Could exposure to comedy affect your sense of humor?
January 19, 2019 at 9:53 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2019 at 10:50 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(January 19, 2019 at 8:17 am)Der/die AtheistIn Wrote: I like watching comedies, and I observed that I'm sort of finding them less funny. It depends on the show or movie.
I've noticed that it's become harder to laugh hysterically at comedies. There are times when I see really ridiculous stuff and only chuckling and wondering why I'm not laughing my ass of.
Not unlike the Spanish Inquisition, comedy relies heavily on one thing - the element of surprise. Surprise and fear... Two things: surprise and fear. And ruthless efficiency... Three... I'll come in again.
Most jokes are only funny the first time you hear/see them, afterwards your brain becomes "wise" to them. I don't know what kinds of comedies you have been watching, but considering your young age, I presume they weren't necessarily of the most sophisticated kind. A lot of teen comedies (comedy in general, really) just repeat the same jokes and gags, over and over, because most film-makers and TV producers don't have much talent, or high opinions of their audience's intelligence. And they're not exactly wrong... You're meant to grow out of those movies and shows, though a worryingly large percentage of people seem to have trouble doing that.
I'd suggest looking for different kinds of comedies. It may take a while until you define your taste in entertainment and it will change over time, because things do become boring. Except music - nothing will ever have the emotional impact of music you'll listen to in your mid- to late- teens. So use those years wisely.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
