WJ #7

Dear readers,

I recently read something by Chuck KLostermanm; "Ha ha,"m he said. "Ha ha." The main point that really made me think was the points that Kloseterman made about people being insecure with laughing on their own. Everyone is different and everyone has a different sense of humor and for everyone to laugh at the very same parts and watch the very same shows has everyone enjoying the same shows which is not realistic at all. Personally I think things are really funny tha others do not. I think the funniest thing is old people, it's terrible but it's the truth for me. If I get on YouTube one of the top things I would type in would be "old people falling" it's so terrible and so mean but I think it's hilarious and I know a lot of people do not think the same. But when I'm watching a show with friends and the laugh tracks are on it most of us will laugh. Insecure, yes I can see that. I know some people who are embarrassed to laugh at something because of what others will think. I believe laugh tracks made us this way and now we turned laughing into something other than jus somehthing being funny but just something we do in every conversation. Klosterman talked about how he was in Germany and he was having a conversation with a cashier and laughed when technically nothing was funny and the cashier just look at him funny. It's in our culture that laughing is not only used when somehting is funny, so what's the point of laugh anyway?

Tell me what you think,
Danielle