A joke is a short saying or a very short story, almost always imagined, it rarely turns out to be real, that can be expressed or communicated in written or spoken way and whose main mission is to provoke laughter in the listener or in the reader of the same.
Said short, real or imaginary, that has the mission of making the listener laugh
The purpose of the joke will always be to entertain and make people laugh and as we mentioned it may be a short saying that involves characters and events both real and unreal, although it is also very common to meet jokes that have sexual, political, social and sports rivalry overtones or references.
For example, political humor is a genre that has gained many followers over the years, especially from the comic strips that most newspapers present, in which it is regular to mention jokes that laugh at the main defects and errors of politicians.
The joke can normally be described in two ways, such as good joke or bad joke, that is, according to the reception they cause in the public, it can be determined as good or bad, if it does not cause grace it will be bad, and if on the contrary it arouses a lot of laughter, we will be facing a good joke.
The success of a joke is in how and who tells it
Although, we must also say that the way in which it has been told will be decisive, because if a joke is told by someone with great grace, surely the answer will be positive as opposed to a story made in an unattractive way.
Each culture, each people has its own way of doing and understanding humor, and so something that can be very funny in one place, in another may not be, and even more, it can even cause discomfort. Therefore, you have to be very careful and tactful about extrapolating jokes from one culture to another.
There are also people who are very funny and have a special disposition when it comes to telling jokes and others who do not have it at all.
Jokes mostly consist of two parts, the introduction and then grace, which together with the first is the one that will cause the funny situation that will generate laughter in the spectators or readers.
Type of jokes
There are various types of jokes, many even manage to transcend the borders of their own origin and are transformed and adapted to the traditions of other cultures and still continue to generate grace.
The regular classification is based on colors to differentiate jokes, for example, dirty jokes are those who present obscene or sexual allusions, the white or classroom jokes, turn out to be those who do not present any type of offense, and black jokes They are those who seek to make people laugh from issues that are not funny at all but rather the opposite, that border on tragedy, for example, laughing at someone who is missing a leg, some illness or directly death.
The benefits of humor and laughter
One of the human tendencies is to make humor and this is often valid to face any situation, and this is where the joke takes on a relevance and a singular presence in people's lives.
Laughter has a huge amount of benefits for our health and, for example, everything that triggers it or causes it is well worth it. And jokes precisely have the mission of entertaining and causing smiles among people.
Daily life is usually full of demands and troubles but if you live it and face it with humor, if you know how to laugh at yourself and take things with more humor, even if they are not good or favorable, they will be much more bearable than if an extremely serious position is chosen. It is very good and it is very healthy to take certain questions with humor, and sometimes laugh at yourself, this makes us more fallible and allows us to relax in the face of failures and falls.
On the other hand, humor, and jokes, are often used by people as a means to decontract a situation that is certainly tense, to break the ice with someone with whom they still do not have much confidence, to express a criticism that otherwise it may fall very badly, but if it is said with grace it is better accepted and the person will not get angry.
According to the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, the joke has a close link with the unconscious mechanism of the mind and then people make use of it, tell jokes, in order to free themselves from certain prohibitions.
