avatarKylie Craft

Summary

The article discusses the author's perspective on humor, particularly their pride in being exceptionally funny, their disdain for premature laughter, and a rivalry with Brenda, a less funny member of their humor group.

Abstract

The author presents a humorous account of their journey to cure premature laughter, which they consider more offensive than its counterpart, premature ejaculation. They claim membership in an exclusive group of thirty-six individuals with an advanced sense of humor, of which they are the president and founder. The narrative includes a rivalry with Brenda, who is described as less funny and more passive-aggressive. The author takes pride in their level 10 funny and 10.5 aggressive status, emphasizing their intolerance for fake or premature laughs. They liken those without a sense of humor to a weaker species and criticize the act of enabling unfunny people with pity laughs. The article concludes with the author's preference for silence over insincere laughter and a plea to refrain from laughing at jokes that aren't genuinely funny.

Opinions

  • The author believes they are part of an elite group of exceptionally funny individuals.
  • They express a strong dislike for premature laughter, considering it highly offensive.
  • The author has an ongoing rivalry with Brenda, who they view as less funny and more passive-aggressive.
  • They pride themselves on their high level of humor and aggressiveness.
  • The author equates a lack of humor with being a weaker species and suggests those without humor mimic others to avoid being ostracized.
  • They advocate for authenticity in reactions to humor, preferring genuine silence to false laughter.
  • The author implies that enabling unfunny people with pity laughs is detrimental to the quality of humor in the world.

Humor

My Daunting Journey To Cure Premature Laughter

It is more offensive than its well-known counterpart, premature ejaculation

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There are literally millions of people in the world that think they are funny when they are not. They are enabled by the pity laugh. There are also thousands of people who are kind of funny in a weird way. Then there are thirty-six of us who are really funny. We have super-advanced, almost supernaturally advanced if you will, senses of humor and we can detect sarcasm up to 18 miles away by scent alone. It is an extremely elite club that I am proud to be not only a member of but also the president and founder of.

The least funny person of our elite members-only group is a gal named Brenda. We have an almost imperceptible, but really visible, rivalry with each other. I think she’s really jealous of the fact that not only am I funny, but I’m not really fucking dumb either. She keeps on saying that I have an issue with her Birkenstocks and I don’t. I do not give a shit what kind of shoes she wears or who she sleeps with at night. At the end of the day, it really boils down to the fact that she is a level two funny and a level nine passive-aggressive. Her afflictions are numerous and her laugh is atrocious. But, beyond that, she’s a great person.

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I, myself, take pride in the fact that I am a level 10 funny and also level 10.5 aggressive. No, I didn’t spell that twice. I’m so aggressive, they gave me an extra half-point above the limit. To put it in a perspective that you peasants can understand, it would be kind of like having an A-type personality but much harder than that.

There is nothing more offensive to me than when someone either fake laughs or laughs earlier than your punch line. They are placating you. Or they’re trying to hide the fact that they are one of the 10% of the population born with no sense of humor. Most of those people all live in Ohio by the way. Much like chimpanzees can mimic humans, those born without a sense of humor learn to mimic those that do. This is so they aren’t killed off since they are technically a weaker species, being born without humor. They wouldn’t know funny if it came up and hit them in the face.

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Like all great comedic geniuses, I would rather hear the sweet, sweet sound of silence than the grating guffaw of a fake laugh.

So you might not be in the majority, who KNOWS this affliction is worse than premature ejaculation, but I am.

Don’t laugh at a joke if you do not find it funny. You are just instigating more bad jokes. Isn’t the world bad enough as it is?

Kylie finds herself funny and is a mixture of sarcasm, White Zinfandel, attitude and love. In addition to humoring herself, she also is a Real Estate Agent and a Property Manager. She lives in Georgia with her huge, loud family. She has made almost all of the bad decisions.

Humor
Funny
Satire
Comedy
Humour
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