I was sitting at work a few minutes ago, and i was thinking about humor.  what is humor? how does it work? am i funny?  I am quickly getting to the point where i dont think i am…. yet.

I have really come to the conclusion that humor, in its purest form, is looking at the world from a slightly different perspective.  One that is different and unique to the person who is viewing it, but not so unique that it is completely  foreign to anyone else.  a good joke teller makes us see the world he does, it is the relating, the ability to make us “get it” that makes them funny.  Lenny Bruce is the perfect example of this being successfully and unsuccessfully implamented.  Bruce’s early work had a quality that was universal, but when he took to standing and reading his court transcripts, well, he thought it was funny, but he couldn’t get anyone else to.

But am i funny?  i hope so.  i doubt it, but i hope so.  i think that i might need to temper myself some, my view is slightly harsh.  i see lunacy, but seldom look at it as funny, and i think that that last step needs to be taken.  i often feel like the low man on the totem pole, like a Rodney Dangerfield standing and wondering why i “get no respect,” i think it may be time to laugh at it, instead of being angered by it.  It will be an interesting experiment.

As for communicating my unique world view to you, well i should figure out how to be funny first.