Laughter

She can smile ear to ear, find a way to make pigs fly, and make money grow on trees. She can strike a conversation with anyone and cleverly pass down her wisdom. My neighbor Velva takes me on a journey through her stories and life experiences. With her stories, I learn her life coping skills, and I learn how they improve my life. So, who is Velva? Velva Dell Brown is the five foot seven and 76-year-old woman that has shaped my life. She is my next-door neighbor, friend, and teacher. She’s no…

The Effects of Stereotypical Humor Through The Disciplines of Media and Culture Many people tend to use humor as a positive communication skill to make us laugh. Humor has long been used as a tool to navigate and promote stereotype through the form of media and popular culture with reference to current affairs. Humor can also be used to help people cope with the offensiveness of being stereotype. By defenition stereotype is known as a generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and…

Sense of humor is defined as the ability to perceive humor or appreciate a joke, in contrast styles of humor are defined as the style in which one chooses to tell a joke. Humor is a concept with various dimensions, which can portray different types of psychological traits. The Humor Styles Questionnaire is a self-report measure that assesses four dimensions relating to individual differences in uses of humor. These are: affiliate, self enhancing, aggressive, and self defeating humor. The humor…

A smile, an abstract art, is utilized by many, but also not understood by many. The corner of our eyes crinkling, the corners of our mouth curling upward, resulting in a broad, bright smile. In America’s society of men and women, we have smiled at one another to show appreciation, to express happiness, or to display a wry countenance. Whether our smile is meant to be genuine or disingenuous, we choose to smile for a multitude of reasons. To which this idea establishes that everyone’s purpose of…

The commodity in my life, is my sense of humor. I'm the type of guy who would make jokes and snarky comments to get a laugh out of my friends. I have wielded this unusual weapon, for years and it helped establish my identity, and improved my life. Without my comedy, I would have no friends, no social life, and I would have never been in a relationship. An example I can give, on how I used my comedy to win a situation is during a training session as a Venture Scout. I took the training session…

When I categorize the memorable moments I have in theatre I find they rarely have to do with the moments on stage despite the fact that I an actor. The moments that make me laugh uncontrollably, want to scream and punch a wall, sob into my pillow all happen in interactions with audience members after a performance. My most memorable moment in theatre all surrounds a little boy who never told me his name. I was working at Florida Studio Theatre (FST) as an Acting Apprentice. We were getting…

1. The show I watched was Friends, and I enjoyed every minute of it. The two characters who played communication task roles where Ross and Rachel. Ross plays the role of opinion giver because he starts giving Phoebe relationship advice before she goes on her date. Rachel is an Elaborator because she tries to work out what time everyone should get together for Phoebes birthday dinner party. Ross’s role affected the group communication by Phoebe telling him he is a little bit of a drama queen and…

The clock strikes 8:00 and my family turns to me expectantly, probably with a hint of exasperation. It’s that time of day again a time they had dubbed “the 8:00 freak out”. As if on cue I burst out laughing uncontrollably, my spaced out teeth gaily showing and my unruly golden curls bouncing up and down with my gracefully spastic movements. I look into the eyes of my familial spectators and, unable to help themselves, they began to laugh as well. Why are you laughing?, I ask innocently, and my…

"I swear I saw a different person up there" Theo comments when I walk past him. "My acting worked, yay!" I say cheerfully turning to him before rolling my eyes and turning back around to sit down. So I could watch the rest of the interviews. Roland chuckles and gets ready to go onto the stage. "Let's bring out, the male tribute of district 10, Roland Friedgo!" Roland moved onto the stage. He really was into character, you could tell he was embarrassed by the way he held himself. He was…

I couldn’t remember the last time I had seen the sky, in all its blue and expansive glory. All I knew were the red-brown bricks of the ceiling that swooped mere inches above my head and the cold wooden planks beneath my bare feet. Sometimes I still ask myself how I got here, how I became a shell of a woman locked behind closed doors. But I don’t know the answer. “Bertha?” A voice, muffled by the thick oak door, interrupted my thinking. It was a bit depressing that the highlight of my day was a…