Chapter 68 The reason is not crooked, the humor is not coming

Contradiction, ingenuity, accident, abnormality, failure, and disorder are the inevitable attributes of humor, just as: if the reason is not crooked, humor cannot come. Humor doesn't come out of the mediocre and the pale, but out of the unexpected, outrageously wonderful.The famous humorist Norman Holland believes: "The greatest characteristic of humor is incongruity." This is very reasonable. A business owner wants to ask a bishop to do an advertisement for him.But he didn't fully explain what he said, he just asked him to preach. Business owners first bid $100,000. The bishop just shook his head without speaking.

"300,000." The business owner tripled the price at once.The bishop still shook his head in silence. "500,000!" The bishop shook his head even more. At this time, a clergyman stepped forward and said to the bishop in a low voice: "My lord bishop, 500,000 yuan can do a lot of things! Why don't you want to?" The Bishop replied, "Do you know what he wanted me to say after the sermon? He told me not to say 'Amen' but to say 'Coke'." The demands of business owners are outrageous. How can a bishop substitute commercial advertisements for serious teachings?It is this incongruity that generates the humor.

Singularity can also generate humor.Novel and unexpected expressions can give people an unexpected feeling, which makes people feel more abrupt, and humor is also produced from this. There are 3 friends living together on the 45th floor of a skyscraper.One night the elevator broke down, and they didn't want to move to another place, so they climbed the stairs together.To combat fatigue, one of them kept telling jokes.After finally climbing to the 43rd floor, everyone was already exhausted, so they decided to take a rest.The one who had been talking said to the other, "Now it's your turn, Peter. Tell a longer story with an interesting plot and a sad ending."

So Peter said: "The story is not long, but it is very sad, because I left the room key in the lobby on the first floor." The ending of this story is unexpected, so the humor is born spontaneously. The way of thinking of human beings is generally constant. If you don't follow the rules and blindly abnormal, you will have a sense of incongruity.A sense of incongruity can produce jokes, and anomalies can produce humor. It is the purpose of humor to speak the language that others can't think of and express the meaning that others can't think of.