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It's a secret method practiced by the great masters through the ages, like Jim Carrey and Robin Williams, called crushing depression.

Just think up the dumbest thing you can think of and then write it

About halfway through Vol III of Capital, Marx drops the secret of always being funny but you have to read literally everything that comes before that point to get it

I don't think anyone said it yet but I think the real answer is that we don't punch down. So much humor is just making fun of someone different or less fortunate than you, and we basically totally avoid that by...just not doing it. It leads to a different brand of more absurdist and or observational humor but (at least to me) it's more funny because it's something that pretty much everyone could laugh at. Comedy is a social thing and when comedy isn't leaving anyone out of the joke it's funnier. I think at least.

Also

hellworld + revolutionary optimism =

I don't know about anything funny. But 9/11 was a national tragedy.

I read theory

Humor comes from honesty.

I'm gay

It's the spirit of pigpoopballs, it gives us strength

Coping mechanism.

And we cope ALOT here.

But Doctor, I am Pagliacci

I dunno everyone here is weird.

It’s really easy actually, all you have to do is say beanis and material conditions.

I don't think I'm that funny, but when I'm at my funniest I'm just channeling Northernlion and Brace Belden.

i may be many things, but no one has ever claimed that i am FUNNY, how dare u

It’s mostly contempt for myself… my resentment of the general public helps too.

trauma

Usually I just talk to myself until I'm able to sift something funny out of the logorrhea. Only I find it funny though because most people don't understand the context of my inner thoughts. Constant distraction through self entertainment is a good way to keep all those negative thoughts away.

Chase off everybody that doesn't agree we're hilarious.

It's the only kind of autistic rizz I've got to work with.

Emotes... emotes for miles and miles...

Listen to cumtown, that's unironically where 70% of this site's humor comes from.

I’m not funny. I just have a keen sense of observation and understand the pulse of the group. I suppose that’s a form of comedy, but I prefer people who are organically funny

I literally practiced all my life trying to be funny now that I think about it. If I wanted to distill it down, I think about a nervous man playing piano on stage. If it helps, imagine his girlfriend walking out of the theater. He sees it and becomes so distraught that he stops playing and gives into his nerves. I aspire to be the person in the audience who shouts "finish the song!" I think there's a lot of fun to be had in the small details of situations with a really big emotional center. When they're talking about that time their girlfriend walked out of their piano performance, you can ask what song they were playing. Then, upon consideration of the song, go "yeah, I would have walked out too, yawn."

Stavvy, the loser from cumtown, does a masterful job of teasing out small details from audience members to get them to paint a picture of what's going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hst2nYhedcY

Kommunism is when no potato chip

my theory is that one of humor's main uses is as a way to compartmentalize things like horror and sorrow, and if you spend a lot of time becoming acutely aware of how much misery there is out there your sense of humor gets a lot of practice to compensate

EDIT: long way to say we are a little twisted around here, a bunch of jokers even, clowns who find the prospect of doing crime...humorous

Hypercritical masses of cynicism, jadedness, and