humor me

I was reading through some back page type news articles the other day and came across one entitled, "Women May Enjoy Humor More, if It's Funny." This got me thinking about the difference between mine and Golden's sense of humor.

In order to understand our senses of humor, you would have to look back to how our humor was influenced in our more formative years.

Golden grew up watching TV and movies with her brother and his friends, and so the humor that the article described as male is not far from what she enjoys. She tends to laugh at physical humor and bathroom humor.

I had some male influences on my humor (my dad and a few friends), but some of the strongest influences come from my mom, my sister, and one of my aunts. I tend to laugh at wordplays, banter, and satire.

Unlike what the story said should be the case Golden tends to laugh at things prior to analyzing whether they should be funny. I do the opposite and analyze the joke to death in my mind. Sometimes I have to think about something for a while before determining whether I truly believe it is funny. Once I do, I tend to overenjoy the joke by recalling it to mind at random times of the day.

Golden likes the fact that I work mostly with men because it helps me appreciate her humor more. On the flip side, though, my humor is like a commercial jingle that you don't like at first, but later on you can't get out of your head (Co - stan - za). So, joking around people for an extended period of time makes them use my humor more, which reinforces my humor on myself.

It is the circle of humor in my life.