All laughter is healthy?

All laughter is healthy?

Who has not laughed at one of the most famous pictures in the history of British television comedy, the "Dead Parrot Sketch" from Monty Python's Flying Circus? Well, a person who comes to mind. A rival political party had adopted the image of a bird by its logo. Speechwriters Margaret Thatcher, encouraged her to summon the dead parrot sketch lampoon their rivals. This was done at the party conference. But the story goes that she had been reluctant to use it because she had not found funny.

The drawing illustrates a common element in the comedy that is the delight of feeling superior to others, as when we laugh at their misfortunes or shortcomings in contrast with ourselves - like watching someone cheated by a seller of pet.


The question arises whether to laugh at the misfortunes of others is a good thing to do. All laughter is healthy?

Benefits of Laughter
"There is nothing more contagious than laughter of small children, they do not even have to care what they are laughing at." (Criss Jami)

So sorry you have no sense of humor. Because there is laughter the best medicine? Can trigger healthy physical changes in the body. Strengthens the immune system, increases energy, reduces pain, and protects you from the harmful effects of stress.

Perhaps laughter has these benefits because it releases nervous energy. What better to have a way of letting go of the stresses of daily life. Black humor among professionals such as police and pathologists is largely unacceptable in other social contexts, because it considers human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable. However, it serves to help deal with the often gruesome macabre side of life that can be very unpleasant to focus and too terrible to talk seriously.

When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. Reduces the strain of growing disagreement and conflict.

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and have the power to choose." (Wayne Dyer)

Also laugh when you realize the incongruity in an absurd situation. When what was expected suddenly moved with a change of perspective. Enjoying a sense of the ridiculous is happening to the audience see theater farce and what better is there to provoke a laugh.

Other mood
Watching someone slip on a banana peel is an example of negative mood. Another example mocks mocking laughter of people do not like. I witnessed this kind of stuff in a little football game, when fans chanted sexually crude insults opposition supporters. You may laugh out loud with bawdy jokes told in a club, but if you listen smile at home. People vary in what they feel are the boundaries of good taste and decency, and maybe some of the fans have felt uncomfortable if noisy hilarity abusive expressed outside the stadium.

Where do you draw the line between making fun of someone in a mocking sort of way and use humor to mock and ridicule, it is hard to say. Court jesters who earned a living doing their actual employers laugh, pointing out some truths, we see they knew how to hide the truth with humor and how far to go without having their heads cut off. The comic, which reflects a part of the public about a cowardly political terrain was pretty sure when asked if the person in question "please come lost missing column has been handed in." You may notice that I have not named the politician. Somehow I think it would be a little spiteful or may be I'm being too sensitive.

I have nothing against making fun of people, but I happen to think that the way this is done is the most important.

"Most of the comedy is based on getting a laugh at the expense of another. And I think that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So you want to be an example that can be fun and be friendly, and make you laugh people without hurting the feelings of another person. " (Ellen DeGeneres)

Teasing, mocking, and sarcastic humiliation use I think it's not a good thing to do.

"My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.

But laughter should not be the reason for someone's pain. "

- Charles Chaplin

Is there a crucial difference between laughing with someone and laughing at them? Sly smiles occur because people realize the social unacceptability absolute sneer.

Emanuel Swedenborg base suggests that laughter is liking what you see is true about something. And that means laughter usually involves something that is not so good. I would interpret this to mean that there is an element of harsh judgment here either ourselves or others.