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Laughingorsmilingoften show a sense of humor and that the person ishappy.

Humourorhumor(Greek:Χιούμορ) is the way that some experiences can make peoplelaughor feelhappy.Most people are able to be amused (laugh or smile at something funny) and have asense of humor.You can usepunswith words that sound similar but have different meanings, or a word that has two meanings.[1]Other examples of humor aresatire,saying yes or no when it is not expected, and using different kinds oflogic.People of different ages andculturescan find different things humorous.[1]For example, adults may likesatire,which children could find hard to understand.[2][3]A comedian is someone who is paid to make people laugh. Humor is describing things in a funny way, having the ability to make the jokes.

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  1. 1.01.1Tony Veale, Kurt Feyaerts, Geert Brone (2006)."The Cognitive Mechanisms of Adversarial Humor"(PDF).Humor International Journal of Humor Research.19(3): 305–339.doi:10.1515/HUMOR.2006.016.S2CID1821223.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2011-07-21.Retrieved2010-12-27.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Seth Benedict GrahamA cultural analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot2003 p.13
  3. Bakhtin, Mikhail.Rabelais and His World[1941, 1965]. Trans. Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press