Response to Faith's Post

I like how you took a sociological approach to laughter and comedy because I don’t think many people think about in this way. I also find human interactions very interesting, but more from a psychological perspective. I do think this relates a lot to sociology though, and looking at human interaction from both perspectives can be very similar. I just haven’t learned much about sociology, but it seems like an interesting subject. Looking at how multiple people interact with each other with laughter and comedy is something that has interested me since we started learning more about comedy. I think this would be different to do because, in many instances, people just look at comedy in one person alone instead of looking at how it brings people together, or changes a group dynamic. I would agree with you that human interaction shapes how we view the world and is very important to us. Human interactions are the basis to almost everything. With the example of the Trump joke, I think it is common that when we hear a joke from someone we immediately just laugh at the exterior message and do not think about it much. It is somewhat difficult to later think about the joke and its true meaning as well as what the person’s opinion on it is. We interact with people by laughing so often in our everyday lives. I think it would be very interesting to study this more, but there have likely been studies done on this idea already. For example, we could look at how we respond to statements by simply laughing sometimes. Also the idea that we do not always think something is funny when we laugh at someone’s joke, so why do we do this still? Looking at comedy with a sociological perspective is a very interesting idea and should be researched more.