“Humor has many disguises. Some are to get attention, some are to diminish the importance of a person or situation, some are to get a point across, some are to belittle a person or situation, some are to cover a statement that is uncomfortable for more discussion, some are to draw out another person or person’s values, standards, or weaknesses.

Humor can be a deadly weapon by some people in authority. It can reek with sarcasm. We like to think of humor as engaging in something happy, light, airy, stimulating, relieving a moment or time of pressure in one’s life. This is not always the fact behind humor.

The expression, ‘Don’t ever lose your sense of humor,’ has a good meaning to it and it has value to it, because humor, when it is in its correct vein of delivery, has an automatic mechanism to release tension to make a situation less frightening, and it can encourage hope.”