Only Intelligent can be humourous

Its only the intelligent who are able to deviate from the normal thinking lines and create humour. It requires a different kind of orientation to think in that way and that too spuriously. It means keeping your brain live and on the tip of your tongue always to respond and allow repartees to follow in the most unsuspected and unexpected channels !!

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Permalink Reply by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen on March 3, 2011 at 13:10

I don't think that being intelligent has anything to do with "deviating from the normal thinking lines and creating humor" .

I think that because Intelligence is defined by IQ-tests -solving puzzles in a restricted time period- .

The IQ-test doesn't measure any ability to deviate from the normal thinking lines and create humor.

It is is rather the opposite.

Permalink Reply by Franis on March 3, 2011 at 18:45

Somewhere on a ted.com video I remember the fact that 94% of kids were able to demonstrate divergent thinking when they were five. Some fraction such as 3% were able to demonstrate it at 16 because school beat it out of the kids. This would also tend to support the idea that intelligence has not much to do with the ability to find things to be funny.

Would imagine too that it depends on the kind of humor; not to demean the less intelligent, but "literal truth" humor is popular among those who are not so smart.

Here are some descriptions of types of humor that I found...and my comments on how they're expressed:

Surprise - (slapstick)
Social Self, (embarrassment)
Biological,
Incongruity, (comparing things that would not normally be put side-by-side)
Ambivalence - (double or triple meanings and "literal truth" humor, )
Release, (the punchline is always saved until last, shaggy dog stories)
Configuration, (humor is often structured into "three" examples, etc.)
Psychoanalytical (commentary about the curiosities of human nature)

Of these different types of humor...are there any of them that take intelligence?

Perhaps as in any skill, it takes deliberate intelligence and practice to structure the delivery so the material is funny to others?

Permalink Reply by Charlotte Fairchild on April 7, 2013 at 15:42

I can find the place where this was presented. I can remember the speaker enough to find him if you want this Franis.

Permalink Reply by yousif mansour yousif otoom on March 6, 2011 at 15:08

thanks ..... its all correct except that " everything makes humor is creative thinking ....sorry .. but some of humor things are creative thinking or made creatively

the mad person can make humor , so that the criterion is the production of creativity or finally work . it is the only way to measure creativity

( im sorry i am from middle east where ignorance is blessed )

thanks a lot

Permalink Reply by Charlotte Fairchild on June 28, 2011 at 19:37

There is gallows humor.
There is verbally abusive humor.
There is infantile humor.
There is geriatric humor.
There is plagiarism humor.
There is dumb blond humor.
There is male dumb blond humor.
Is it intelligence to differentiate humor?
Are there studies for humor for people with low IQ, young age, high IQ and old age?
Can we make humor not knowing our target audience and it will work no matter the audience?
Hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, Arabic and other ancient writings have humor so it is broad based and timeless.
Do cultures decide to suppress humor and to what avail.
Where are the over serious cultures?
Clowns seem to be funny in many cultures not their own.
Sorry, I may have taken off on too many tangents.

Permalink Reply by Charlotte Fairchild on April 7, 2013 at 15:40

I remember the continuous laugh and smile some of the bed ridden people had at Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia. How intelligent are people who are mute, bedridden, and supposedly like vegetables?

On the flip side, knowing that there are several paths to get out of the maze, and knowing that some are possible through what some people consider cheating (Star Trek cheating by Captain Kirk was acceptable for the outcome) may be possible through the mind/intellect. This is why one's maze is another's labyrinth, and there is a difference.