Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor helps people open up.
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.
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.
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.