Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor helps people open up.
When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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