Laughter. It can save your life apparently.

Some new study reveals you should laugh about 15 minutes daily to save your heart from shitting the bed. Excellent, so everyone I know is running around with amazing hearts. Well people, glad I could help. Next time you yell at my dog for shitting on your lawn, I will gladly remind you- without me, you would die. Then I will poop on your precious lawn as well (and pee on your garden gnome)
But honestly, I think about laughter a lot. For a few reasons. There are like, 5 people in this world, that don't laugh at everything I say. I am mostly offended. Then I realize they are just dumb and my humor flies over their head (see: sarcasm, wit) So I try to let it slide. But then I think about the whole nature vs nurture when it comes to what we find humorous. Can there not be one universal that is funny? Back in the day I think it may have been the banana peel, hard to resist. With teenagers, it is normally fart jokes or the word penis (vagina just makes you blush). So what decides what we laugh at? For example, if your father was into British humor, are you forever doomed to like something that is NEVER EVER FUNNY? If not, how do you make up your own style of funny? Do you subconsciously fill out a form in the brain and anytime something fits that mold, laughter is induced? Fake laughter aside, this must be a pretty complicated process here. Better yet, how does our sense of humor evolve? From something so crude as the fart jokes to a more sophisticated taste. Is it like the way our taste in music evolves? Can I somehow throw the word eclectic in here? (Word of the day, by the way) How did humor itself evolve? At what point did some jester decide, I'm going to make a joke about all these severed heads!? Which eventually evolved into today's current jokes about every ethnicity and sexual orientation there is. Man the first people that tried this probably ended up like that jester, booed off the stage and lucky if they kept their head.

Guess it is just one of those things that cannot be answered. Let's take best friends for a minute. Same tastes in booze, women, and rock and roll. They even go to the movies sometime but always sit one seat apart, don't want to look too homo, right? How come you find that there are times one will laugh and laugh at the joke and the other decides to just keep eating popcorn? Better yet, think about the last time you watched a funny movie, alone. Take the same movie, throw in 3 of your friends, and I GUARANTEE, you laugh way way more with your friends around. For example- I love Family Guy. And normally, it is watched in a group setting because everyone loves Family Guy. I could probably spend an ENTIRE episode chuckling and giggling and almost peeing my pants (Miles, Davis). However, taken out of it's element, watched alone, I still laugh... but less than half as much. Is it just because the show isn't as funny as I thought? Is it because my friends are trying to get me high before I watch it? Is laughter then socially promoted? Oh, my friends are here, we all should laugh to enjoy the movie. Better yet, why don't you laugh when you are alone? Is the movie less funny? Is watching other people laughing appealing? Have you ever seen those laughter clubs? That shit creeps me out, they should make a horror film about it. But hey, they all have healthy hearts, assuming they don't make love to sodium a few times a day.

I WANT ANSWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!