The Power of Humor
New Years Eve 2014/15 Live Charlottesville, VA
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.