How do you introduce yourself in a humorous way?

Play Humor at will —— Methods and skills to realize humor

First of all, feel humor with your heart.

Here, the focus is to explore the specific methods and skills to achieve humor.

Before discussing, it should be pointed out that humor is not just laughter. As mentioned above, it is the main difference between humor and funny. There are funny elements in the shell of humor, but it is much more elegant, meaningful and witty than the funny in the bones; Sometimes irony permeates into the bones of humor, but the shell is much warmer, wider and more lovely than irony. Therefore, the realization of humor has its unique skills and methods.

1. The premise of creating humor

The premise of creating humor is the unity of expression and content, the coordination of humor creation and humor understanding, and the principle of letting nature take its course.

The form and content of humor

Humor is characterized by humor, smartness and humor. The content of humor is rational, which contains self-evident and unforgettable philosophy. This is the so-called endless words, endless meaning.

American philosopher Parker said: "Forgiving others is a kind of humor ... comedy is either stinging or gentle." The purpose of satire is preaching and influence, while the purpose of humor is aesthetics and meditation. " The so-called "meditation" is the pursuit and exploration of humorous content and the reflection on the nature of the revealed problems.

In 1930s, Yu Dafu and his friends went to a restaurant for dinner. When paying the bill, he took out the money from the sole of his shoe and gave it to his boss. His friend was very surprised and asked, "Why did you hide the money in your shoes?" Yu Dafu raised his money and said, "This thing oppressed me before, and now I will oppress it."

From a formal point of view, artifacts are childlike, but if you ask why, you will find something worth thinking about.

Why is the unity of form and content the premise of creating humor? Obviously, if we blindly pursue the form of amusement and teasing, humor will be vulgar, and at most it will only make people laugh like funny, and it has no greater value. On the other hand, abandoning the necessary forms of expression and presenting only a naked core is a kind of dry humor, but there is no humor at all.

Rossini, a famous Italian writer, heard that some millionaires were going to build a statue for him in France and asked, "How much are they going to spend?" "I heard that there are 10 million francs." "Ten million francs?" Rossini sighed and said, "If they are willing to give me 500 francs, I will stand on the pedestal of that statue myself!" " ! "

This humorous sketch takes the form of contrast, which embodies thought-provoking content; Through sharp contrast, we can see how much people are worth in a society where money is everything. The humor of this sketch is inseparable from the unity of its form and content.

Many scholars at home and abroad like to classify humor as an aesthetic comedy, so having a sense of humor is also an aesthetic view. It is the same as the ability of observation, memory, understanding and generalization, and it is also the psychological quality of individuals. How to evaluate this special ability of humor? The key lies in the ability to understand and create humor.

In the realization of humor, why is the coordination of humor creation and understanding a necessary prerequisite? Because this special ability directly affects the effect of humor. Humor, as an individual psychological feature, determines and affects the occurrence, development and outcome of the whole humorous process, whether it is the subject of humor creation or the object of humor feeling. In terms of humorous feelings, why do some people fully understand, while others are indifferent like "casting pearls before swine"? Obviously, in addition to cultural literacy, region, nationality and other factors, individual differences in sense of humor are one of the main reasons.

As early as hundreds of years ago, Gharles DarWin pointed out that facial activities can strengthen emotional feelings. In previous experimental studies, subjects were usually asked to smile and then understand their sense of humor. This method is subjective. However, Shtraukh, a psychologist at the University of Munich, has proved through experiments that if you smile intentionally when listening to jokes or watching humorous movies, you can improve your real sense of humor.

His experiment was carried out when the subjects did not know the purpose of the experiment. The subjects didn't know they were being humorously investigated, but thought they were just studying disability. Shtraukh asked 92 subjects to hold pens with their teeth or lips respectively, and at the same time showed a set of cartoons, and asked them to rate the humor of the pictures according to their own feelings, with scores ranging from 1 to 9.

When the pen is on your lips, your lips are closed and you can't smile; On the contrary, when you only bite the pen with your teeth, your mouth is pulled open and your mouth is upturned. This facial activity is like laughing. The results show that even this kind of smile can improve people's sense of humor in comic books. The average score of humor is 4.32 when the lips are closed, and 5. 14 when biting the pen with teeth.

Psychological preparation and facial activities are important parts of humor feeling or understanding. Both Darwin and modern psychologists believe that if you want to be happy, you can rely on your own behavior, for example, smiling. Knowing this is conducive to creating humor and conveying humor.

"Nature" principle

It can be said that in comedy, folk art, jokes, humorous sketches, humorous photography, comics, funny couplets, and even in daily life, the success of any humorous expression has the characteristics of coming easily and letting nature take its course, and all of them have the taste of "meeting unexpectedly". This is the natural principle of "jokes make people come" that Li Yu said. On the contrary, the humor created by thinking behind closed doors and locked in an ivory tower is likely to get lost in affectation and posturing.

In fact, "nature", as a principle in the realization of humor, is well known in practice (as mentioned above). The purpose of special emphasis here is to prevent this foundation from being lost intentionally or unintentionally when discussing the following specific methods.

2. The main ways of humor perception

The realization of humor includes the process of creation and understanding. The creative process mainly involves some specific methods, while the understanding process is related to the psychological process of cognition and feeling. Generally speaking, there are two main ways to perceive humor: visual humor and auditory humor.

Visual humor will soon be witnessed.

Visual humor mainly refers to the plastic arts with comic meaning and humorous content. Humorous behaviors, postures and descriptions can be experienced through people's visual feelings. The basic requirement of visual humor for humor creation is "seeing quickly".

The American army stipulates that soldiers should not have long hair. However, General Haig, then commander-in-chief of NATO forces, had long hair.

A soldier was dissatisfied with this, so he found a photo of General Haig from the newspaper and posted it on the door of the lieutenant's office. He also drew an arrow pointing to the commander-in-chief's long hair and wrote: Please look at his hair.

When the lieutenant saw this ingenious "protest", he did not trace whose masterpiece it was. Instead, he stretched out his arrow, pointed it at the collar of the commander-in-chief and wrote a line: Look at his rank!

Seeing fast is closely related to attention in psychological activities. Attention is directional, that is, at a certain moment, psychological activities selectively reflect some objects and ignore others. Experience tells us that fresh things or phenomena, especially interesting colors, are the easiest to attract people's attention. This external stimulus signal is introduced through the visual pathway and acts on the brain. A series of stimuli will produce many different degrees of excitement on the skin. The focal part of the excitation focus with a certain intensity forms the dominant excitation center, and at the same time, the inhibition process of inducing adjacent skin areas is also strengthened accordingly, so that people can clearly reflect the external stimuli corresponding to the dominant excitation center and avoid other interfering stimuli, which is the physiological and psychological mechanism of attention direction and concentration.

According to this theory, it can better explain why some stimuli from visual humor are attractive. In this way, in the Lohan Hall of Suzhou West Park, if you pay a little attention, you can find that tourists will choose to stop in front of Guanyin and Jigong Living Buddha among more than 500 Lohan statues.

Why is this? For the former, many people like to count whether there are 1000 lots. This is a sign of curiosity. The latter attracts people's attention with its humorous and vivid humorous image.

Sculpture and other plastic arts create an obvious and tangible artistic image of the tangible world in space, which is reflected through the visual experience channel. Although the humorous statue is static and does not develop with the development of time, it has infinite and long-lasting appeal, and it can always reveal all kinds of the world through visual images. The bronze statue of Hu Renxiao, now in the Brenda Museum in San Francisco, USA, has a history of more than 2000 years.

However, whenever we see the smiling faces of the Hu people, we always feel ecstatic. They laughed so foolishly. What kind of happiness can make people so stunning?

In addition to humorous sculptures, in comic books, humorous photography, humorous paper-cutting, pantomime, comedy and humorous movies and other art forms, the main way to recognize and feel humor also lies in vision. The humorous photo "Neglected Companion" reveals the hidden humorous factors in the colorful world through sharp contrast, and the only way to identify this humorous form is through visual sense.

If humorous photography is to observe the ridiculous phenomena in the world through the lens, then the cognition through the pupil can be said to be the most direct.

Is the ridiculous phenomenon in life, even the humorous creation of art, humorous after being reflected by human senses? This is related to the cultural accomplishment, moral standard, psychological quality of the perceiver and the influence of the environment on the mood at that time. This is why some people are on the verge of the same thing, and some people turn a blind eye and can't laugh.

For a person with a sense of humor, he often sees many ridiculous things in the environment and around him. The famous French physicist Ampere once went home after going out, walked to the door, looked up and saw a note posted on the door, so he said to himself, "He's not at home, I'll go." In fact, he posted the note himself when he went out, because he was obsessed with thinking and made this joke. Can you witness this interesting phenomenon without making people laugh?

Compared with cartoons, humorous photos and sculptures, the absurd phenomena in life and the visual humor in pantomime and comedy humorous movies are dynamic and remarkable. From the perspective of perception, dynamic stimulation is easier to attract people's attention than static stimulation, and it is less likely to induce visual fatigue. In view of this physiological and psychological characteristic of human beings, we can make full use of it in the process of creating visual humor. No matter what form of visual humor is, the visual "language" or "symbol" used in it must have its life roots, that is, all actions, behaviors, postures and shapes that embody humor cannot be separated from people's life and labor, otherwise we will not be able to understand and appreciate the information conveyed by these "languages" and "symbols", let alone make a happy response to such visual stimuli.

In fact, there are many funny phenomena and funny images around us, and they are varied and have their own styles. As long as they are good at observation and understanding, it is not difficult to find fragments at any time. Can you find some interesting sights from the vast wedding motorcade on the road and between the sales at the counter? ..... As long as a little attention, you will feast your eyes!

Auditory humor can be understood through hearing and hearing.

Humorous understanding of comic dialogue, allegro, tongue twister, emergency password, jokes, comic dialogue and other artistic styles is mainly felt through auditory channels.

In the expression of auditory humor, some people joke with "gimmicks" or "baggage", while others pay attention to the board, rhyme and learning to sing, focusing on setting off a funny and interesting atmosphere. The auditory humor stimulation symbolized by speech, rhythm and music enters the pathway through the speech auditory analyzer and reaches the wernicke center of the left hemisphere cortex of the brain, where a series of physiological and psychological reactions are generated.

Visual humor pays attention to seeing quickly, and we can absorb all the activities of the whole space in a certain scene at once, which has no similar characteristics to the humor reflected by auditory channels. We can just make full use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses, string the activities of a certain moment into a long line like crosstalk and jokes, first pave the way for the jokes, then stimulate the audience's senses step by step, attract the audience's attention and all their thoughts to the "hidden clues" in advance, and think with the development until the final revelation suddenly interrupts the original thinking and produces unexpected and understandable humorous effects.

A: One day, when we were surveying in the virgin forest, a bison suddenly appeared, jumping and barking!

Oh, no!

It's okay, just hold your horses. I said, "Martin, get out of the way! Lao Zhao, don't mind, let me do it! "

What about you?

A: I'm hiding.

What, hide?

A: I hid in a favorable terrain and picked up the gun and touched it! Touch! Touch! Just three times.

I killed the bison.

A: No, I scared it. Wild animals are precious wealth.

For this cross talk, let's take a look at it with our eyes and get to know all the activities. We can find that almost all activities take place in an instant, and we can't feel much humor with our eyes alone. However, once you switch to auditory expression, the situation is very different. In this paragraph, "hide" and "touch! Touch! Touch! " Three shots are two jokes buried in the process of listening. From the beginning to hiding, people are puzzled, but when the topic changes, the following explanations are very satisfactory and reasonable. Use "touch! Touch! Touch! " Three shots were fired, and the audience was anxious to know whether the bison was dead or injured. Who knows, at that time, I said "scare it" in an understatement. At this point, the nervous expectation suddenly vanished into laughter.

What needs to be emphasized here is that it is difficult to distinguish pure visual humor from auditory humor in any form of humorous expression. Usually they complement each other and set each other off. For example, in the cartoon or comic humor movie in the form of visual humor, the perception process seems to be only related to the release of the excitement of optic nerve cells on the retina.

In fact, when we watch Disney's "Donald Duck Light the Gun", although there is no dubbing or narration, the auditory nerve cells in the inner ear system are also in a state of stress preparation. In this way, when plumes of smoke are emitted from the gun chamber, we will also "hear" a crashing sound, which is called "synaesthesia" or "synaesthesia" in psychology. The so-called synaesthesia or synaesthesia, in psychology, refers to the feeling produced by one sense, which can cause the feeling change of another sense.

Just as visual humor can induce auditory synaesthesia, auditory humor can also cause synaesthesia of other senses. Judging from the synaesthesia phenomenon of the interaction between vision and hearing, in the expression of auditory humor, paying attention to choosing what people are familiar with as humorous material will strengthen the effect of auditory humor.

In funny dramas and comedies, the sense of humor mainly lies in the integration of vision and hearing. All artistic techniques that can affect this comprehensive degree will eventually affect the appeal of humor, that is, the enjoyment of beauty.

The opening scene of the Soviet film "Stories in the Office" directed by Riya Zhanov presents a series of quick scenes through our retinas: as soon as the office bell rings, the female civil servants in the office are busy opening the door, combing their hair, applying lipstick and looking in the mirror ... Then humorous voiceover is introduced to our ears: this is the scene of "beautiful people putting on makeup at work", which has become a natural and understandable tradition, but it is useless.

This opening is a two-pronged approach from an audio-visual perspective, unconsciously introducing the audience into the humorous artistic conception. Here, humorous stimuli from visual and auditory aspects have the most suitable collocation in their respective intensity and order of appearance. The so-called best match is the superposition of the two effects, not because you fight for each other and go their separate ways to offset each other.

The activity of sensory analyzer is induced by mutual excitement and inhibition in the process of neural activity in cerebral cortex, which affects the sensory effect of other analyzers. Strong stimulation of one analyzer system will weaken the sensitivity of another analyzer system. For example, auditory stimulation of high-intensity sound can reduce the visual perception effect. Understanding the psychological mechanism of this perception is of guiding value to the creation of stage comedy, movie comedy and all art forms related to audio-visual comprehensive humor.

Why do the performances in some comedies give people a feeling of affectation and embarrassment? This is because when the perceiver appreciates the smug performances that he thinks can make him laugh, whether watching or listening, he feels "not pleasing to the eye" or "not pleasing to the eye", and he will feel seriously uncomfortable, which will lead to this kind of resistance.

When humorous language appears in the plot, it may be enough for the actor to shrug his shoulders in visual humor, but sometimes the antics are inappropriately intensified for the sake of teasing, and the result is counterproductive. This is because the stimulation from audio and video conflicts leads to emotional confusion and disharmony. Isn't it? We can often find in some comedies that some somersaults don't seem worth falling, some have a bad temper, and some grimaces don't look good.

3. Create a hundred humorous lives.

Let's talk about humor and creativity. In fact, there are good creative themes everywhere in life. For example, when you make a humorous speech, you can tell some life philosophies in simple, humorous and rhyming sentences, and most of them can get a good "laugh" effect. For example, when talking about the importance of "laughter to God", he said, "Every day should be full of spring breeze, so that you can walk with the wind, be healthy and succeed at an early date." When talking about "self-affirmation", he said: "When a grass is exposed, there is no way out. Where there is wind, there is rain, where there is road, there is step, and where there is learning, there is progress. "

Creative language is the most powerful theme among many creative ideas in life, and it is also the most impressive and empathetic. Some gender experts talk about the art of getting along with husband and wife, especially telling men that Qian Qian should never be "like an animal before marriage (intense courtship), like a plant after marriage (unable to move), and become a mineral after a few years (dead) ..." These ideas are the most valuable "interpersonal ingenuity"!

In order to "whether to install the latest jet engine on the over-aged' mother machine'", a major American airline specially convened a group of top engineers to come to the meeting to discuss.

During the meeting, the debate was fierce and the pros and cons were polarized. Proponents believe that this can improve aircraft performance, save fuel and reduce noise. Opponents think that the plane is too old and it is a waste to install a new engine. After a long debate, the pros and cons can't reach a conclusion. At this time, the chairman cleared his throat and said, "These old mothers are just like grandmothers. Just like grandma's breast augmentation. Although it may be wasted, it may not be wasted, but the grandmothers will feel very happy anyway. "

There was a burst of laughter at the meeting, and everyone bent over with laughter. We can't guarantee that grandma's sex life will improve after breast augmentation, but the conclusion of the meeting came out: replace the old mother machine with a new engine!

Many difficult exercises between people, as long as "humor" is served on the table, can be drunk. Humor can be said to be the "best equation" of "life exercises".

Mr. John F. Kennedy, the youngest, most graceful and funniest man in American history, became president at the age of 44, and was also proficient in ignorance. Once, he asked a large group of reporters to follow him on the presidential plane of Air Force One to visit a place. During the flight, the approachable president was chatting with the accompanying reporters, and suddenly a reporter asked a rather embarrassing question. He is very bold. The pleasant atmosphere suddenly froze, and everyone looked at each other for a while, not knowing what to do.

What a good Kennedy, but he said slowly, "Well, I don't know what the consequences will be, but I am absolutely sure that your name will be published in the newspaper tomorrow morning, but in small font." What a humorous change ball, thrown wisely, which not only solved the embarrassment, but also repaired the abrupt reporter.

Humorous food, if added with "wisdom seasoning", is equivalent to a higher level.

A big boss bought a beautiful garden, covering a wide area. He hopes to hire 65,438+02 gardeners to take care of it. After placing a job advertisement in the newspaper, hundreds of letters applied.

The boss put the executive secretary in charge of this matter. After preliminary screening, the secretary informed 50 people to come for an interview and told them to bring work pants.

On the day of the interview, the executive secretary served as the examiner. When he entered the examination room, he saw the executive secretary look at the candidates without saying a word, then flipped through the overalls they brought and graded them.

The accepted 12 people were told to come to work, and the workshops were whispering. Finally, they couldn't help being curious and sent a representative to ask the executive secretary, "What is the reason for being admitted?"

The executive secretary smiled and replied, "Nothing, I just want to see if there are any patches on my work pants." ? Where is the patch? Your patches are all on your knees, so I decided to hire them. If the patch is on your hip, I definitely don't need it! "

Recently, many people are losing weight in fashion, and they have obviously lost weight. At this time, we can tell them that whether tall or thin, nature is the most beautiful. Tall people are called "indomitable spirit", short people are called "down-to-earth", fat people are called "comfortable" and thin people are called "righteous". Tall and thin people are happy! As long as you always show sincerity and creativity when you get along with others, anyone can reap the beautiful fruits of life.