What Is Real Humor? || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Dark Humour: Life’s a Joke, But We’re the Punchline! || Acharya Prashant (2025)

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00:00Recently, media has put a term in front of me that is dark humor.

00:05You can laugh at something only when the thing is misplaced, no?

00:09If a thing is placed where it must be, will you laugh?

00:12But if I place my shoes on my head, you will laugh because the thing is inappropriately

00:17placed.

00:18The thing has been given a place, a sense of importance that it does not deserve.

00:23And that is the definition of humor, to see what is being given importance and bring it

00:29down.

00:30I don't know what dark humor is, but real humor and sharp humor is when you can destroy

00:35your own darkness.

00:36The man who starts taking himself as a joke is for sure a liberated man.

00:41Before you make fun of something or somebody, ask yourself, have you first of all made fun

00:47of yourself?