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The Power of Humor Thinking
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The Power of Humor Part 2
Comedy without the Comedian
Here the camera turns to the audience. As with the listener below, the brain on comedy takes the body and soul for a ride that is palpable, electric.
Humor can bring out our best...
Thinking
Humor helps us think. Humor has been defined as a faculty that recognizes and expresses incongruity in a character or situation. The video illustrates how observational comedy can be communicated by the speaker and its affect on the body when it is experienced by a listener. The recognition and expression of incongruity in this joke unfolds in 3 steps: (1) Reducing the problem to one line; (2) Stretching out the incongruity better exposing what about it doesn't make sense and (3) "Solving the problem" even if the resolution makes less sense than the initial incongruity. My thanks to attendees at the taping for being and becoming open to incongruity.
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StrandUp and Funny Presentations
The Power of Humor
caring
Emotional contagion -- laughing not at but with.
Applied to comedy, it's the theory that we laugh not so much at the joke as with the feeling generated in a room filled with other laughing beings, the brain bones connected to the heart bones. In the video below, the first laugh pops in the brain ("just about enough"); the second -- after the joke's subject and object look at one another -- issues from the heart.
Video credit: I thank attendees at a recent show in Virginia for their assistance.
When fear becomes love a sound is made... laughter
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