It's a secret method practiced by the great masters through the ages, like Jim Carrey and Robin Williams, called crushing depression.

Just think up the dumbest thing you can think of and then write it

I believe it's called "gallows humor"

Unfortunately it requires you to be, well... fucked. Fucked hard and aware of it.

Actually something the guys at the 'Bad Hasbara' podcast have observed is the history of Jews in comedy, much of that humor resulting from sort of a self-deprecating humor style meant to disarm those who were doing harm to Jewish communities, and the total LACK of humor from Jewish Israelis, shown most clearly in their social media posts. Once the group (speaking broadly of course) went from oppressed to oppressor they lost something special that enabled them make fun of themselves and in doing so make fun of society and make fun of those doing the oppression. They still view themselves as oppressed (laughable, obviously, when the IOF can fly uncontested fighter jets anywhere in the surrounding states) but the humor doesn't work when your people are the ones doing the ethnic based murdering and the genocide.

Probably poorly explained there, but the gist is people coping with a total lack of power witnessing the mass oppression, including murder, of people of their similar group whether it's a deeply held ideological conviction or something like an ethnicity or religion develop dark and twisted (from the outside perspective) humor to express the inexpressible.

Not to be too melodramatic, etc.

About halfway through Vol III of Capital, Marx drops the secret of always being funny but you have to read literally everything that comes before that point to get it

idk I just like wordplay.

Also coming up with funny bits based on the absurdity of hellworld informed by the immortal science of marxist leninism and coming up with the most plausible but irony poisoned predictions possible and yet they keep turning out to be true.

I don't know about anything funny. But 9/11 was a national tragedy.

I don't think anyone said it yet but I think the real answer is that we don't punch down. So much humor is just making fun of someone different or less fortunate than you, and we basically totally avoid that by...just not doing it. It leads to a different brand of more absurdist and or observational humor but (at least to me) it's more funny because it's something that pretty much everyone could laugh at. Comedy is a social thing and when comedy isn't leaving anyone out of the joke it's funnier. I think at least.

Also

I read theory

hellworld + revolutionary optimism =

Humor comes from honesty.

It's the spirit of pigpoopballs, it gives us strength

I'm gay

Coping mechanism.

And we cope ALOT here.

But Doctor, I am Pagliacci

I dunno everyone here is weird.

It’s really easy actually, all you have to do is say beanis and material conditions.

i may be many things, but no one has ever claimed that i am FUNNY, how dare u

I don't think I'm that funny, but when I'm at my funniest I'm just channeling Northernlion and Brace Belden.

It’s mostly contempt for myself… my resentment of the general public helps too.

trauma

Usually I just talk to myself until I'm able to sift something funny out of the logorrhea. Only I find it funny though because most people don't understand the context of my inner thoughts. Constant distraction through self entertainment is a good way to keep all those negative thoughts away.

Chase off everybody that doesn't agree we're hilarious.

It's the only kind of autistic rizz I've got to work with.

Emotes... emotes for miles and miles...

Listen to cumtown, that's unironically where 70% of this site's humor comes from.

I literally practiced all my life trying to be funny now that I think about it. If I wanted to distill it down, I think about a nervous man playing piano on stage. If it helps, imagine his girlfriend walking out of the theater. He sees it and becomes so distraught that he stops playing and gives into his nerves. I aspire to be the person in the audience who shouts "finish the song!" I think there's a lot of fun to be had in the small details of situations with a really big emotional center. When they're talking about that time their girlfriend walked out of their piano performance, you can ask what song they were playing. Then, upon consideration of the song, go "yeah, I would have walked out too, yawn."

Stavvy, the loser from cumtown, does a masterful job of teasing out small details from audience members to get them to paint a picture of what's going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hst2nYhedcY

I’m not funny. I just have a keen sense of observation and understand the pulse of the group. I suppose that’s a form of comedy, but I prefer people who are organically funny

Kommunism is when no potato chip