What makes things funny | Peter McGraw | TEDxBoulder

Humor ist gewaltäti.... ähh allgegenwärtig.

No Funny bone is but a cruel joke
Like an egg without the yoke
Like no fizzling in your coke
Like the smile that is broke
Humor is something to provoke

This is not a drill with the drill would have been absurdist humor

Stellar stuff !!! Real dimension with feeling how pedagogic this was.

Incongruence leads to humor.
Cocky leads to humor.
Obsessiveness leads to humor.
Irony and sarcasm lead to humor. (Incongruence and cocky)
Over-reaction leads to humor.

I make thing funny

backward logic

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I have wondered if anyone had studied the psychology of humour.

I guess this talk existed before Gen Z humor emerged

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i love tickling my sugar glider to see her bark and shake with joy!

Ur kind to tim McGraw n tug McGraw. Crystal

This explains why I laugh when terrible things happen to me.
My coping strategy is to look at myself from a distance.

I have confused alot of people...

The opening statement let me know this video was made BC (before covid) 😆

This seems to describe Rodney Dangerfield perfectly: Unexpected horrible things alledgedly happening in the past to someone you know only because you see thembut barely know them so you know hey're unlikely to be truthfully hurt?

Excellent explanation of what makes things funny. Wow. Good topic and good examples. The speaker is very deliberate and keeps it ...well....funny !!

just learned a new word from a 12 year old vid, benign

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What are you going to remember from this talk? Nothing, it's basically pointless.

I couldn't finish it. It was gonna ruin funny

Farts are always funny.. until its not just a fart, then it turns into a situation.. not a benign situation either..

What a long, solemn humorless discussion of humor.

Not the guy in the beginning starting to stand up, and upon seeing no one else stood up, sat back down. 💀

unfunny people making instructions for how other unfunny people can be funny

I can tickle myself

Just if the audience would not have laughed at his first joke !!!

Amazing. Very close to the truth. Bravo. Keep researching mr mcgraw..

He started forgetting- tripping up on- his speech at around the 10 minute mark.
Maybe he was focusing on holding in a fart..
I think he missed his chance, though. Farts will always be funny!

Excellent explanation of humor! Thank you 😄

I was hoping this was the one where the guy trolls Ted Talk.

This video beats post nut clarity

Watched it 5th time, one of the best talk

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He didn't really teach anyting? He kind of just pointed out the obvious facts about humour.

You mean "irony"?

Me with the 21st century humor:

This also explains why I laugh A LOT, because I see a lot of benign violation in a lot of situation that my friends think a malign situation. I often laugh in inapropriate times, making jokes in a funeral, making jokes when someone died to accident etc etc. The only one way to not make me look bad in public is to hold myself to not say anything when that inapropriate times occurs. Even when I want to laugh so badly, I will just try to hold my laugh because all of people will find it inapropriate. That is why I love wearing face mask, they will not know that I was gigling laughing at "inapropriate" thing that occurs.

Wow it is explained why sensitive people doesn't good at handling jokes, It is because what we see as benign violation, they see it as malign violation. That is people need to learn how to handle jokes by being open minded, learn more thing, see the world more and expand your view.

It doesn't "beg the question," it raises or leads to a question. You are at TED--supposedly a group of highly intelligent people--so what's to be gained by demonstrating you are as uneducated as the rest of the pundits on TV? What's next in your misuse of the English language, confusing when it's correct to use "less" and "fewer?" Sad. NO STANDARDS USA.

Components of successful humor: Benign violation, not hurtful to begin with, with distance, alternative meaning. Irma Bombeck said: There is a thin line between laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt

I think I understand why I don't find humor funny as often as most people do. If a person struggles to learn and consistently follow social norms, they are laughed at. When someone else intentionally makes the same mistake and receives supportive laughter, it feels like privilege, not humor.

Humour is possibly the most unifying aspect of human reality. Even things like music vary a lot culture to culture.

this is it. this is what comedy is. he literally cracked the code to humor. scientists been trying to figure this out for decades and failed but he did it

This Boulder guy is very gifted at Not Funny. I hope he is an exception among the rest of Boulder guys.

peyton manning out here doing ted talks. i respek it