So let me drop some knowledge here. Maybe you know about the ins and outs of humor theory and maybe you don’t, in which case—Hey there. So what it is about laughing? Why is it a release, and why do people sometimes find themselves laughing at the most awful times, and at the most awful things? How has the technique of satire been so prevailing that it is woven into our daily lives since the of Aristotle all the way around to SNL and John Oliver? What is GOOD with the multi-dimensionality of humor and comedy in society? So I started doing some digging.

Throughout my research on humor, I found through various articles, journals, theorists, psychologists, comedians, writers and basically, anyone who has made a joke, ever, that humor itself boils down to: communication. Whether it be a way to understand yourself, a situation or your society, humor functions in the way for human beings to comprehend. Humor being a tool to evoke social change, functions in the way humor can deconstruct. Of course, you need to have a person, who knows how to deconstruct a certain social issue through the eyes, appropriately.  In looking into humor theory, I found out that there is no one ‘humor theory’ that is considered the ‘golden’ reason of why people utilize humor in a way for communication. The theories are extensive and vary widely, For the purposes of my project, I will focus on three theories that many humor intellectuals argue a large amount of various humor theories stem from: ‘Superiority theory’, ‘Relief theory' and ‘Incongruity theory’. Humor literature can be sectioned into two, “broad categories: the first is concerned with the individual level-- why individuals use humor— and the second— humor functioning with a social setting or society” (#4,1).

RELIEF THEORY

SUPERIORITY THEORY

INCONGRUITY THEORY

CONCLUSION OF THEORIES