The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor comes from self-confidence.