The Importance of Humor in Humor

Andrew Kuchins: We want to think that it's often much misunderstood about humor. It's actually a way of claiming power over in a sense the person who is abusing their power by pointing out that very contradiction, he says. Why would you do that unless you yourself have that quality that your instinct is a mean instinct? No comedian does this; even basic things like after 9-11, when people would be texting each other with sick jokes about 9-11. And part of the joke was an acknowledgement that you absolutely shouldn't laugh at this. Part of the reason why humor can be created out of that is a means to reinforce that it is a tragic event. That's part