Knock Knock…..Who’s there?...humor

When it comes to writing a successful and interesting blog, I don’t know jack. But when I thought about what I am going to write about in my blog, the first thing that came to mind is humor. I am the kind of guy who likes to include humor in everyday. Whether it is taking pictures of my professors heads and put them on dogs….or saying one liners that will make a persons’ day. I Think every person should find some type of humor or something to laugh at each day. Maybe it’s finding a funny movie you watch often. Or maybe it is just teasing your cat with a laser pointer.

A lot of people tell the same jokes or have the same sense of humor. Not everyone laughs at the same stuff. For me I find slapstick and dumb/goofy humor to be funny. For example, I love watching SpongeBob SquarePants. It is a mix of adult humor and childish goofy humor. When it comes to movies, I like the old school stuff like Caddyshack, The Naked Gun, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. It is all good stuff to me. But I also don’t like any of the current comedy films, such as Knocked Up, Superbad, 40 year old virgin, and etc. Those movies try to find humor in sex, drinking, and people getting mad at one another. I find that not to be humorous.

But that is stuff that I find funny / non-funny. But it is different when I tell jokes. I try to make every person I meet laugh, and if I don’t make them chuckle at something I have said, then I have failed. People sometimes tell me I should be a comedian…but to me I couldn’t do that. Comedians have their own ways of being funny. Carlos Mencia makes racial jokes, Dane Cook tells jokes about experience and everyday life. Then you have people like Jeff Dunham who is a ventriloquist and uses humor that way.

I don’t work that way. There was a time in the sixth grade that we were talking about weird wise sayings. For example as people say “wise as an owl”, or swift like a fox or whatever. So I was trying to make up my one and I thought up goats. As an ADHD sufferer sometimes I say before I think what I am saying. So I thought goats have horns and I said to the class “As horny as a goat.” The whole class died laughing, and the teacher just couldn’t stop crying because it was so funny. I didn’t mean it in the sexual way, I just thought that since that they have horns that it makes them “horn-y”. The funny part is that goats get a bad rap that they are horny, because of a product sold in stores like GNC called “Horny Goat Weed.”

Ever since that day I just enjoyed the wonders of making people laugh. So over the next years I spent observing and testing with trial and error to learn to be funny. Along the way I found out that, like I mentioned earlier, every person has their own since of humor. So what I do to this day is see who that person is and tailor my jokes to there since of humor. That is why I think I couldn’t be a comedian…because I don’t know what the audience would laugh at because I don’t know what kind of jokes to tell them.

To me humor adds life to your years and years to your life. I try to laugh and tell jokes every day. Because life isn’t worth living if you don’t know how to laugh!