INSTEAD FRIEND AGGRESSION SPEECH EXAMPLE PUT-DOWN LAST JOKE PERSON BAD ME HELP
Recently I was at ___ party, but the people ___ the room weren’t dancing. ___ they were standing around ___ boy. He was telling ___ amusing joke and everyone ___ laughing. Clearly, they thought ___ was really funny and ___. But were they right? ___ Ancient Greeks believed that ___ wasn’t just entertaining, it ___ also a form of ___ – and some modern psychologists ___ agree with them. According ___ psychologist Rod Martin, people ___n’t always funny because they’ve ___ good social skills. “It’s ___ form of communication, like ___, and we all use ___ differently,” says Martin. For ___, one type of humour, ___ humour, makes fun of ___ people. Think about the ___ time you heard a ___ about a politician. The ___ joking was using put-down ___. It can be hysterical, ___ sometimes people use put-down ___ to tell embarrassing stories ___ friends. This is a ___ of aggression – a way ___ making yourself look good ___ making someone else look ___. Another example is “hate ___” humour. People use this ___ to laugh at themselves. ___ at our mistakes can ___ us survive them.
But some “hate me” humour is very depressing because the person making the jokes actually hates himself and uses the jokes to cover that fact. Used correctly, however, humour can make people feel good about themselves and with each other. We call this bonding humour because it makes people feel they’ve got something in common. Now that’s a good reason to laugh!
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Have fun....and take care!
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Have fun....and take care!
