The Energy of Low-Stakes Humor

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That is an version of The Surprise Reader, a e-newsletter through which our editors advocate a set of tales to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Enroll right here to get it each Saturday morning.

The web was not precisely constructed to accommodate April Fools’ Day. As my colleague Megan Garber put it in 2015, our digital platforms don’t have a tendency “to tell apart between tales and information, between the earnest and the satirical.” And on-line misinformation has solely grow to be darker and extra rampant within the years since Megan revealed her article. What was as soon as a spring day for low-stakes enjoyable has grow to be a headache-inducing sequence of checks to determine what’s actual and what’s not.

If you happen to’re a type of individuals who has managed to uphold the innocence of April Fools’ Day even in 2023, don’t allow us to damage your enjoyable. However we’ll spend right now’s e-newsletter enthusiastic about the vary of low-stakes humor that exists in our each day lives—such because the nonsensical jokes of a kid or the too-obvious jokes of a dad—and the enjoyment this humor can convey.

On Humor

The Dad-Joke Doctrine

What’s black and white and skim throughout? This text, hopefully.

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Youngsters. Youngsters Who? Youngsters Inform Horrible Jokes.

There’s some logic behind their hilariously dangerous makes an attempt at humor.

The Hyperlink Between Happiness and a Sense of Humor

Humor is critical enterprise for happiness—however the kind of humor issues.


Nonetheless Curious?


Different Diversions


P.S.

I’ll depart you with a joke the author Ashley Fetters used to make repeatedly when she was 4 years previous:

“Knock, knock.”

“Who’s there?”

“Guitar.”

“Guitar who?”

“Guitar in the event you don’t have a home!”

Don’t spend too lengthy pondering that one this weekend.

— Isabel

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