Chapter 67 Humor also needs to master some skills

There are people who are born with a sense of humor who will always know how to make things more interesting, but there are also people who have an acquired sense of humor.Let's discuss some methods and techniques of humor in detail. Contrast is the basic device of generating humor.Contrast refers to the comparison of two (or more than two) irrelevant (or even completely opposite) things that have no historical or conventional relationship with each other to reveal their differences, that is, incongruous factors.In humor, the more obvious the difference between the two sides of the comparison, the more appropriate the timing and media selection of the comparison, the stronger the degree of dissonance caused by the comparison, and the deeper the viewer's understanding of the difference between the two sides. The humorous artistic conception is more intriguing.

Transplantation is one of the main techniques of humor, that is, to move the plot or language that appears to be very natural and harmonious in a certain occasion to another completely different occasion, so that it can be combined with the new environment beyond people's normal imagination and reasonable All kinds of expected contradictions, thus producing a humorous effect.Transplantation includes plot transplantation and language transplantation.The premise of plot transplantation is that it violates people's normal thinking logic. Reversal is one of the main technical means to form humorous conflicts, that is, to change the relationship between characters, such as origin, precedence, size, and superiority, under certain conditions, so as to create a comic scene with strong humor.Sometimes a change of word order can have the same humorous effect.The reversal of the relationship between characters can be expressed as the dislocation of father and son, husband and wife, elder and younger, male and female, master and servant, etc., forming a new relationship that is contrary to the traditional concept that people are accustomed to, which is extremely absurd and dramatic, and even humorous plot and ending.

Homophonic pun is a rhetorical format commonly used in humorous language intersection techniques, that is, using the homophonic or near-sounding conditions of words to form double meanings, so that the literal meaning and the actual meaning are inharmoniously intertwined.Homophonic puns use voice as a link to connect two irrelevant meanings, so that viewers can comprehend the speaker's sense of humor through association. Research and master some humorous skills and tricks, which will allow you to improvise when talking with people, and make humor at your fingertips, increasing the effect of conversation and communication.