Saturday, April 26, 2008

The essence of Funny

Something I never really bothered to think about until the other day. I received this link which had a list of some incredibly hilarious stuff, and some not so funny. It occurred to me then to question what was it that made those things so humorous!

Would your preference of humour depend on:

1) Genetics aka your parents (blame everything on them)
- Not too sure about this one. My parents still laugh at Chinese serials while I cringe.

2) Your childhood peers
- Coupled with the fact that it's these years where you develop the foundation of your psyche, it's probably an era where you feel even more inclined to be socially accepted. Through conditioning, you'd find funny what your closest buddies then find funny too.

3) The type of entertainment you had available
- Growing up with cable and MTV WILL have an effect on you. And we wonder why Americans bother filming Scary Movie 452.

4) The amount of sunshine you had
- Well with photosynthe... nah.

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