Humor

Humor 101

100

What is humor? 

A. Something funny, like a joke or story

B. Making fun of someone's appearance

C. Calling someone a name

A. Something funny, like a joke or story

200

How will people feel if we use humor at the right place and time? 

They will laugh and feel good. 

300

How will people feel if we use humor at the wrong place and time?

They will not laugh and they will feel uncomfortable and upset.  

400

If you are the only one laughing is the joke funny?

No 

500

Is a joke funny if you tell it over and over and over?

No. Generally jokes are funny the first time and get old the more you tell the same joke over and over. 

Appropriate Vs Inappropriate

100

Is it appropriate to tell a joke about someone’s body: their skin color, their size, their hair, how they move, or anything about what they look like.

No

200

I know what my friends think is funny and everyone is laughing. Was it a good joke?

Yes 

300

Is it appropriate to call people names like: chocolate shake, chicken nugget, fruit snack? 

No. It's not okay to call people names, just to call them names. It's not funny. 

400

If someone tells a joke, and people laugh, but the person the joke was about felt uncomfortable and hurt, should you repeat that joke? What should you say to the people who made the joke?

No. "Hey that's not funny." 

500

What should you do if you tell an inappropriate joke and it hurts someones feelings? (Even if other people thought it was funny and they laughed). 

Sincerely apologize to them and do better next time. Do not make that same joke or similar jokes again. 

Take a risk. Try and answer a joke:

100

What did one toilet say to the other?

You look a bit flushed. 

200

Why did the dinosaur cross the road? 

Because the chicken wasn't born yet

300

What do you call two birds in love?

tweethearts

400

What falls in the winter but never gets hurt?

Snow

500

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?

A stick