Basically making initiating funny body movements seeking us to mirror her and to do coy little hide and seek games.
Not only is it terribly cute, seeing her think up funny games like this to play and watching how she giggles and laughs is really interesting to see how it expresses her personality when she can't even formulate words yet.
With everything in the Internet existing forever, I would never post something like this for them to find later.
It may be due to having two other siblings to observe and see playing and doing stuff.
Being consistently funny requires some amount of intelligence, creativity, and self-confidence. All of those things are good qualities in a husband and father. It's possible that humor adds more above and beyond those qualities, but I'm skeptical that a study could separate the effects of those other qualities.
Considering most "funny people" engage in low effort puns or just ape what they hear on TV or the internet, I'm not so sure of that. I guess the potential mother's taste in humor is important here.
http://www.theonion.com/article/courageous-man-overcomes-wom...
I wonder if the copying a lot of young men do (endlessly quoting movies and such) is some kind of evolutionary trick to come off as funny or smart, like a bird fluffing its feathers to come off as a larger and stronger potential mate.
Yeah, that's pretty reductionist, but it really makes you wonder why this behavior is so common. Past "mating age" its insufferable if someone does it.
Women aren't looking for comedians. They're looking for men who can still smile when everything around them is turning to shit. So if you can crack a joke when the waiter brings you raw chicken, rather than screaming your head off and threatening to sue, that's the kind of funny a woman wants.
Considering so many entertainers are horrible primadonnas and massivly self-entitled, I doubt being good at humor has anyting to do with temperament, compassion, empathy, etc.
> When someone says, "I like people who make me laugh"
When people say that, they're not talking about a professional comedian or even a class clown. They like people who are happy and relaxed. When someone is happy and relaxed, they're having a good time and they play around, make jokes, and generally allow other people around them to also have a good time.
It's not about having a good temperament, although that's probably a prerequisite. It's about being genuinely happy.
I dare you to come up with a better test of figuring out if a person is happy or not.
Not to say everyone quoting famous lines is a genius but it doesn't rule it out.
If you get off the internet, you'll find people are capable of being funny without quoting Dave Chappelle. I seriously doubt any potential mothers out there are looking for a Quote Machine. I'll probably get crucified for this, but the fact that you reference Jon Stewart as a rare type of funny sort of betrays the point you're making. He's very much part of the "sick references" club.
I think a humorous person that may potentially make a good father and the meme-spouting quote crowd are really two different things. They're just looking for someone that can be goofy from time to time, you're making this out to be a search for Richard Pryor.
>Jon Stewart as a rare type of funny sort of betrays the point you're making. He's very much part of the "sick references" club.
When I was a kid he was more of a standard stand-up and not at all political. I use him because he's universally acknowledged as funny.
Just ask Republicans.
This is a ridiculous conversation.
But I LOVE low effort puns! They make me laugh every time!
They're not, so there's more to it than that.
- she means it as someone who don't take life too seriously
- saying she is looking for someone handsome/rich sounds too shallow
- she means some particular types of funny, probably not including the clown type
- she means someone who can talk to her on the same level
- she wants that because that's what all other girls claim to want
Conversely, I think a lot of men are looking for the same thing too, we all know that not every day is "butterflies and rainbows," so its nice to have that person who is even-keeled in spite of the pressures of work, the screaming babies, etc.
I was talking about genuine, spontaneous humor. Not in a setting where you're acting and where others know you're acting. Not when there's an audience. Spontaneously funny about bad things happening in real-time, in real-life, in a personal setting.
Even really good unhappy comedians would have a hard time with that one.
Wow you sure know a lot of things. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
So I'm not too sure about the validity of your rationalization.