What Makes Us Laugh and Why We Do It?

We love to laugh at our daily lives and ourselves. If you can relate to your audience through your humor, you have captured it.

A room full of single people will laugh at jokes about dating, sex, the opposite gender, their worst dates. Stories about what it is like to eat alone or go stag to an affair like a wedding and about the blind dates that their married friends have set up for them will get a laugh

A room full of married people will laugh at jokes about wives and husbands and kids and car pools and balancing home life and work life. They will laugh about home repairs and cooking fiascos. They too will laugh about sex or lack of it.

Just watch television shows like "The Tonight Show" or "Saturday Night Live"; their best material is ripped from the headlines. These shows make light of even the most serious of events like the terrorist attack on 911. We laugh because humor helps us cope with the hard stuff.

If you look at stand up comics, many of them make jokes about themselves. If you have a fat comedian, he will talk about his weight etc. Some comedians have started their careers as a way of dealing with their physical disabilities.

I personally would love to be a stand up comic. I have even made up a couple of jokes to start my routine. Since I have eight kids and I am often asked why I have so many; the jokes surround birth control pills. Here is how I would start my routine:

I am often asked why I have so many children and I reply, "I was just following my mother's advice; she always told me that I should keep trying until I got something right. Well it took me eight tries before I got those little white pills out of that little round box.

You know the people who created the birth control pill container really took the truth in advertising laws seriously. It says on the box "child proof". I know that is right. Every time I could not get those little white pills out of the box, I had another child to prove it.

I find these two jokes funny because having and raising eight kids was serious work and because I really get offended by people who sit in judgment of me because I don't fit the 2 kid per family ideal.

The things that we find the funniest are the things that touch our lives the most.

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