Wonder what he'd do if nobody laughed in the beginning 😂 took the risk for a high reward, I respect that

@jacobshirley3457

Жыл бұрын

He'd hold the pause longer, because somebody will laugh at the uncomfortably long pause. Then, everybody will join in.

@sadgladbadman

8 ай бұрын

@@jacobshirley3457 Or even just keeps staring at him in silence and thinks, 'tf is wrong with this guy? this isn't a mild violation, i'm not open minded at all."

I watched this whole video without knowing what benign meant

@D4rkLigHtLP

4 жыл бұрын

You my Sir are a man of culture!

@hemendrasahu7943

4 жыл бұрын

your comment is a fine example of a benign violation. It's funny haha

@libertys5635

4 жыл бұрын

i checked the replies to this to see if someone told you what it meant to hide that I didn't know what it meant either

@ayritebk8603

4 жыл бұрын

Benign means not harmful/kind/gentle The thing I think we should learn from this talk is that there's limits to humor it may hurt people's feelings and we should respect these limits.

@jfish032

3 жыл бұрын

🤦‍♂️

this is the best explanation of humour I've seen so far. mild violations are funnier when it is closer because mild violations happen to someone we don't know, all the time; therefore they stop being violations and become the norm. Someone out there is mis-stepping and falling, all the time but it doesn't happen around us all the time.

takeaways: -humor helps cope with pain, stress, adversity -it`s funny only when 3 conditions are met simultaniously: situation of benign, situation of violation and their intersection -Violation means put things out of norm -benign means be psychologicaly distant -pay attention to your audince -additional strategy - highlight what is wrong with normal everyday situations -example of algorith: start with violation, then benign (create a distance), provide an alternative interpretation

@deadbabyseal3356

10 ай бұрын

benign means harmless, psychological distance is its own takeaway

falling down stairs, not hurt: no laughter falling down stairs, hurt: laughter unless it happens to another person: EXTREME LAUGHTER

@soslothful

2 жыл бұрын

The way I heard it is- When you fall down the stairs its comedy. When I fall down the stairs its tragedy.

@DrJones20

Жыл бұрын

That's sadistic.

@Im-not-alone-Im-full-of-myself

5 ай бұрын

Oh my! It is true that some people find it funny when someone falls into a staircase and gets hurt haha... But it is more due to the shock and surprise at something that happens completely unexpected like that. Laughter is just a way to express shock, something that is very normal in people, and not because we are laughing at the other person, we are only laughing because it happened in an unexpected way. This type of laughter is only a way of expression of a surprise, not of the pain that the other person feels.

if you can deliver a joke without laughing or smiling, boom

@JeffWarren47

4 жыл бұрын

I tried this out at my first open mic.Any feedback is appreciated!!

@NightSpid

3 жыл бұрын

But sometimes the persons laugh telling the joke can make u laugh too

@santiagoflores5126

3 жыл бұрын

Actually laughing is more funny beacuse you share a feeling with the audience making them feel more secure by making that you create a safe space for the humor and laughter to flow.

@DaBeezKneez

3 жыл бұрын

I’m really good at this, which I hate cus people think I’m being serious 🙄🙄

@gnarthdarkanen7464

3 жыл бұрын

It depends on the joke or gag. If it's the kind of thing that laughter would distract from the punchline, you should deliver it dead-pan. If it's too easy to assume you're being serious, you should at least present a timely grin... "the gotcha face"... to let your audience know it's not serious, and they will laugh. Some gags are entirely based on the context of delivery, so it really matters that you deliver an "over the top" sentiment with a deathly serious tone and expression... Others are just funny enough on their own merits that it doesn't matter how they're delivered. ;o)

This explains why I laugh when terrible things happen to me. My coping strategy is to look at myself from a distance. I have confused alot of people...

I really enjoyed the circular structure that this lecture had, starting by asking the audience to tickle themselves, and at the end, picking up the same topic but this time with sense after the whole explanation about humour. I didn´t realise before about what separate humour and being annoying or even cross the line, but after hearing about the bening violation I grasped it. Just to conclude, a very interesting and well explained speech.

I’ve learned why some things are funny. I can use this. Friends and family appreciate his talk!!

This will certainly makes me more considerate of others while cracking jokes . Thank you so much

Excellent explanation of humor! Thank you 😄

We love Peter McGraw and his Benign Violation Theory! A simple way to remember this theory is "if laughing at this is wrong, why does it feel so right?"

@DrJones20

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you're immoral?

@SelfimprovementDiscipline

Ай бұрын

No, it’s funny because it seems harmless at the same time. To us or in general

This is actually a fantastic video. Thanks Peter!

Some Ted speakers just speak about their research and don't actually provide the main core information. You gave out gold to everyone for free. Thanks a lot 🎉

So good...thank you! Needling more laughter in my life.

When nobody laughs at your joke so you violate them with your fart unexpectedly. I have achieved comedy.

@matiasgersberg939

3 жыл бұрын

You’re sus

@felipe6522

2 жыл бұрын

6:16 also when nobody realized he said AMOGUS

@harishskumar4491

2 жыл бұрын

You made an achievement: oh thats funny..lol

@technobladefan8565

2 жыл бұрын

"When nobody laughs at your joke so you violate them."

Humour research lab omg and I struggle finding a job

@fourthmusketeer2745

5 жыл бұрын

You’re British aren’t you.

@lolislayer69_

3 жыл бұрын

@@fourthmusketeer2745 lol

This is EXCELLENT. A couple of months ago that gal Nicole Arbour got a ton of attention for her "Dear Fat People" rant, which most people did not find funny. But also, very few people did a good job of being able to EXPLAIN to her why it wasn't. Hope the people at The Humor Research Lab (Really? Can I work there?!) sent her a link. This also gets at the heart of how different things for different people qualify as "benign". I love hidden camera jokes, but a good friend of mine can't stand them, as she internalizes that discomfort of personal boundaries being crossed as not being "benign". Love it! Great info!!!

@AustinChambers302977

Жыл бұрын

That's a great example. I also don't care for hidden camera jokes, and you described exactly why.

Excellent explanation of what makes things funny. Wow. Good topic and good examples. The speaker is very deliberate and keeps it ...well....funny !!

thank you for this upload! :) i learned much about it.

You can tickle yourself if you're ticklish enough. Trust me, I know.

@vchicago2851

5 жыл бұрын

YesReneau .

@americanguy8431

5 жыл бұрын

ohuuu verified

@lxiaoqi6275

5 жыл бұрын

I can tickle myself so I don't know what are they saying

@gregoryscott3858

5 жыл бұрын

100% true for me as well.

@orianalopez2855

5 жыл бұрын

Ikr, I couldn't wash my feet because I was so ticklish that it was a torture

There are many things that make things funny. It could for example be when someone says something that was unexpected or something we didn't expect at all happens. It could be due to a situation (or someone's actions) that can be funny because of its absurdity, or because of a misunderstanding. It could be humor that comes from something that is related to yourself, or that you can relate to (maybe because you've experienced something similar).

Peter McGraw, you rock!

Probably the best explanation I have heard

Benign retaliation is just one of 13 tools in the Comedy writers belt. This was very well presented

@CalmNoises

2 жыл бұрын

Well? Don't be a tool and tell us!

Stellar stuff !!! Real dimension with feeling how pedagogic this was.

Amazing. Very close to the truth. Bravo. Keep researching mr mcgraw..

"How do you make this a malign violation?" Laughed so hard.

@AhmadAwais

6 жыл бұрын

Marytyr coz it was benign to listen and not to actually see someone wear.

Fascinating. As I rewrite my comedy lines I will work towards benign-violation while keeping in mind my audience, the situation and "distance" and see if that generates more laughs.

@florianinside5666

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Edward, did it work?

@michellete8545

6 жыл бұрын

Edward Wedler worth a shot, let us know if you succeed or not

Best TEDx talk ever.

One of best video that I have seen about theory of humar ❤❤

irish humour is very accurate , of Oscar Wilde they said "being Irish he had a great sense of tragedy ,that sustained him through his temporary moments of joy"

Awesome, though so much more detail to get into. Great research subject!

This is clearly one of the greatest TEDx Talks, but then most of the people who wanted to watch it and invariably commented are sad people

Funny and informative. I think TED is making headway.

Great. Presentation! You learn me something! Many. Thanks!🎈🎈

I love this! Life is complex and ridiculous all at once. It's good to take a step back and see what's funny about it.

i need this FAST!

Most humorous thing ever “people you date and mate”

This is a pretty good explanation about what makes things funny. But what I'd really like to know is, why funny things make us laugh and how that reaction works in the brain. I wonder if they study that with fMRI.

@michaeljackson5471

Жыл бұрын

Do you know the answer yet?

@shcxatter2

Жыл бұрын

There's a vsauce video on the subject. Basically humour destroys a prediction on the outcome of something in our minds, and the change of context from this unexpected realization, is releasing quickly the electrical energy in those neural pathways, and the quickest way to do that, Is to dissipate the energy through the motor cortex which in turn, makes you move your muscles in a certain way.

7:22 - channelling Sheldon Cooper...heheh!

This is my favorite video, more like it over here!

Best unifying explanation I've heard so far.

@julianwarmington1267

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it is pretty good. - I'm not any funnier now though than I was 15 minutes ago, and dog-gone-it i want my money back!

If you're dissecting something it's already dead. If something dies in the process, that's vivisection.

@jtsupersized

9 жыл бұрын

Pop2323pop Unless its your friend. Then its comedy.

@vincentmack37

9 жыл бұрын

I think you just vivisected that joke

@adkadatka244

8 жыл бұрын

Pop2323pop hmm, very interesting

@essennagerry

8 жыл бұрын

+vincentmack37 Hahaha...

@davinkim7930

7 жыл бұрын

Youre a nerd if you laughed

Thank You For Sharing ❤

the only ted talk assignment for english i enjoyed

Watched it 5th time, one of the best talk

Would you plot things on a number line, with negative numbers indicating level of violation, positive numbers indicating benign-ness, and zero as the sweet spot where they overlap? Or would it be more like a two-dimensional graph, with X and Y as the two qualities? In other words, are the two qualities opposite (line) or complementary (graph)? If the answer is that they are complementary: Does the intensity of the two qualities affect the humor, or does it only matter that they balance? In other words, if something is both intensely violating and intensely benign, is it funnier than something mildly violating and mildly benign? Can something be very benign and very violating at the same time, or does that balance out to neutrality? Can anything be neither benign nor violating? Also, does humor arise from the duality of something being both benign and violating, or, instead, from the uncertainty about which category it fits into? When a joke has both qualities, does the listener assess it first one way, then the other, oscillating between the two, or is it more of an instant comprehension that both qualities are present?

Very true humor really helps everybody truly smile and get through a tough day and when you ask someone how are you it becomes sincere 5 star information . And i am going to order larg pens to hand out that say my pen is Huge with my business logo! To give out :)

Excellent talk!

Lovely talk. Very benign😊

This Is the best talk ever

SO SMART, SO SIMPLE

Don't you hate it when a sentence doesn't end the way you refrigerator?

@annaneedham9771

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It sucks.

@rico6546

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha 😂

@pork43

5 жыл бұрын

this comment is 1 year old and i find it hilarious

@gideonpalmer8809

4 жыл бұрын

@@pork43 really? It left me cold

@pork43

4 жыл бұрын

@@gideonpalmer8809 pun

The moment he said start tickling, i was done with the video 😂

@SaifAlikhan-wy1zs

3 жыл бұрын

We both have the same name bro.

Aww, he is adorable :)

this is the greatest humour theory ever. simple and accurate for most cases. there is one thing i think is still unexplained: - why it can be funny (mainly for kids) just to identify themselves with one another. Like, "i like ice cream", "me too!". there's no violation. Also, this pattern can be seem at people laughing at things like "i fear travelling by airplane... i hate people that don't". i call this "identification humour". i've splitted recently some stuff in "expectation break" (something better explained by him as violation) and identification.

@deniskrivchenkov9042

7 жыл бұрын

because it is very benign when there are people around like you. We do like people like us

@gustavodurocher

7 жыл бұрын

this could be a premise, but not the final reason. We only laugh at ANY joke if we identify ourselves with the person/joke. otherwise, the violation would be always perceived as malign. it can be very benign, as you said, but as peter says on the video, only benign is not funny...

@gustavodurocher

7 жыл бұрын

point is that, sometimes, there are some incongruences (violations) that are so small we can't even notice as an incongruence... i think that quoting a reference from one thing in another is so unexpected... it can be a violation in itself.

@garyhundsrucker7771

6 жыл бұрын

Gustavo Du Rocher I boiled it down to things being : Wrong,negative or ambiguous or amy combination of the three.

@edgardocerda4045

6 жыл бұрын

I think it's because we think we are alone and unique, but the realization that we are not that alone and not that unique is a benign violation of our previous beliefs. It's benign because it allow us to connect with others, and isn't a threat to our selves . In kids i think it's more clear, as kids are just learning and realizing that they're not the center of the world, and that there are others who are just like them. For adults, i think the same identification can be found with things we think are our personal kinks or things you simply don't know that happens to others too. It's the breaking of the isolation we believe we are (in certain aspects, i don't mean complete lonelyness) what makes the benign violation. That's why not everything with which we can identify is funny. It's only with those things you share with others, but you don't really know you do.

This was like a math lesson , I was left more confused

I will take what I've learned into the world! *starts tickling strangers* *several pending lawsuits*

Bravo, encore encore

I had thus question in my meditation and got to think it thru. This is a great answer to the question albeit on the surface level because it more so defined whta humor is in our modern day culture, not necessarily the case for all humans in general. The answer is in the frequencies incase anyone's interested in knowing but it'll hurt a lil to get to the answer because it'll require ya to think a lil. Awesome video nonetheless.

that last statement is true but so is the fact that you can only take offense to something, even if something is intended to insult you directly

this video is over 8 years old and i find it pretty interesting

This was fantastic.

he said over a long period of time. as a child, depressed people laughed and had fun, but over time they lost it.

so every humor have a root to somekind of violation. thankyou

@elkerobi8737

3 жыл бұрын

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@DrJones20

Жыл бұрын

I don't like that notion.

There's 12 comedy structures and 7 laughter triggers

at the end i was expecting: "now please stand up"

The opening statement let me know this video was made BC (before covid) 😆

Hopefully I can up my humor using this technique

@46Bax

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully you can cause this comment wasn't funny at all

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." --Mell Brooks....A malign violation, and funnier because of it.

@DrJones20

Жыл бұрын

Sure if you're a sadist. Are you?

This Boulder guy is very gifted at Not Funny. I hope he is an exception among the rest of Boulder guys.

Someone really managed to dissect and analyse "humour" and what's more, it was funny as well! So the frog was not killed. Certainly benign!

@swine13

3 жыл бұрын

Youd hope it was. I dont trust any comedy advice that comes from someone who doesn't make me laugh. I mean it's self evident right there, isn't it?

Me too - on the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet.

This theory is basically the Push Pull tactic in practice

great talk!

One thing is certain, it's hard and takes a genius to be able to explain humor humorously.

It's still tickling yourself. But I get your point and it's true, too.

Not the guy in the beginning starting to stand up, and upon seeing no one else stood up, sat back down. 💀

6:31 Tbh, this made it funnier in a surreal way.

6:33 somehow the missing of the hammer made this actually really funny

@phil6217

3 жыл бұрын

6:40 and this is even better

thats why i laughed so hard last friday

Me tells a joke People:-laughs Me:-tells the reason why we laugh People:-laughs

@joshsarles Me too! I hate it when people say its impossible!

Sheldon cooper had his own theory to tell jokes and be humorous, he would love this vid

@swine13

3 жыл бұрын

Sheldon Cooper isn't a real person, though

@kaoutermouslimhaliba7145

3 жыл бұрын

@@swine13 he was inspired out of a real one. That was not my point though.

Laughter and happiness is an expression of superiority. You see in all animals. It is the nervous reaction to someone who is mildy intoxicated. A partner which is either an alpha male, or short-lived. An animal with rabies. The body auto-defensively conveys intimidation, to confuse the viewer which witnesses uncoordination.

Finally someone cracked the secret of what make something funny

@scottashe984

2 жыл бұрын

A not funny person should not lecture on comedy.

I just gave a 3 hour lecture on comedy. I could've just showed them this video. 😆

I know that many dogs respond with excitement, friendliness and happiness when you laugh. But I don't know if they have a sense of humor. Dogs and many other animals can immediately know if you are feeling fear or feeling love or joy. No matter what your body language is or if you're back is turned to them a dog can sense if you're feeling fear or feeling happiness or love. They literally feel whatever emotion you are feeling. Most of us humans need body language or tone of voice indicators.

WOW!

When you do an unacceptable thing in an acceptable way🙂

@DrJones20

Жыл бұрын

Although what defines acceptable can be subjective.

i love tickling my sugar glider to see her bark and shake with joy!

@0:42: It doesn't "beg the question"; it raises the question. To "beg the question" is to commit a logical fallacy in which one assumes the conclusion. To raise a question is to pose it for consideration.

HI I LIKE CATS, thank you for listening to my TED talk

Bravo

I can't believe I'm watching this video on its tenth anniversary.

@elkerobi8737

3 жыл бұрын

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@ausendundeinenacht His theory isn't about violation of norms, it's specifically about the violation of expectations, for example: failed expected threats. What makes something 'benign' is the fact - which I inferred above - that the viewer can laugh at the violation, because the viewer is genetically wired to give the impression of superiority over the unexpected occurrence, or empathy with the superiority of a viewer being viewed by that empathizer...

he totally paid people to laugh that hard in the audience, smart guy

@jorsc5158

8 жыл бұрын

+Jordan Scruggs (jordan scruggs) HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

@noahway13

8 жыл бұрын

+Jor Sc (jordan scruggs) Just because you didn't get the jokes, it does not mean he had to pay people to laugh.

@fuckthismusic

8 жыл бұрын

+JustKeith His jokes are awesome,and it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm rich

@mollyprice3568

7 жыл бұрын

No he didn't. Go look-up TED cult.

@biglloyd5870

7 жыл бұрын

Jor Sc I was dying the whole time and I'm broke. And u can't b the funniest urself since ur here

humor is about building trust that's it

Talk Summary: Take a violation and make it sound casual or take something normal and make it catastrophic. Create a benign violation.

@swine13

3 жыл бұрын

So Joe Wilkinson vs James Acaster. Gotcha.