Haha Funny!

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I, like a lot of people, find a wide variety of things funny. From puns to stupid pick-up lines to good, quality comedy, a lot of things will make me laugh (or at the very least smile).


It's fairly obvious why stupid puns and pick-up lines are funny: they're so bad that they're good. If you search for "good puns" and read them off to me, I'll definitely start cracking up. But why do I -- and most other people -- find this funny? Well, although the play-on-words can be a bit cringe sometimes, a lot of times it's actually pretty innovative. One of my favorite examples of this is the former YouTuber Ryan Higa a.k.a. nigahiga. Back in the day, he was probably the most popular YouTuber out there, and for good reason. His videos (which I still sometimes rewatch today) were super creative. Not only that, but you can't watch one of his videos without hearing a good pun or two. His videos are a combination of creative takes on random ideas, united by a single joke throughout the video, and ending with a punchline that drives his comedy home. (By the way, if you've never watched one of his videos before and aren't convinced his puns are truly next-level, watch this.)

Oftentimes, however, these dumb jokes aren't considered "good comedy" by a lot of people. They'll call it "cringe" and refuse to laugh at them. But how do you even go about classifying comedy? How is something "more comedic" than the other, even if they both make you laugh? The truth is, puns and stupid pick-up lines do count as quality comedy because, in the end, they do make someone laugh, and if that isn't the best measure of comedy, I don't know what is. 

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