Humor

Humor is the ability to see or hear something that is funny, comical or amusing - a pleasant emotional response to absurdity, incongruity, or social awkwardness. Laughter is often the goal or result of humor.

In 2366, Q offered the special gift of laughter to Data, his "professor of the Humanities", following Q's brief time as a human. 

Data didn't understand what was funny when Jono unintentionally spilled banana split in Wesley Crusher's face until Commander William T. Riker told him to check his databanks on "humor, subsection slapstick". Data then understood that the situation was a variation on the "Pie in the Face"-gag. 

Some species find the ability to understand humor difficult. Vulcans, due to their rigid adherence to the principles of logic and emotional suppression, do not normally use or understand humor. Saavik once noted that humor was "a difficult concept. It is not logical." 

However, when their emotional suppression is removed, Vulcans have been known to express laughter. Tuvok, even with his suppression in place, is known to exhibit what can be described as dry humor.

One form of humor is slapstick, which, according to Data's database, is "comedy stressing farce and horseplay", the "Pie in the Face"-gag, for example. The Three Stooges were well known for their physical, slapstick humor. 

Quark once claimed that there were those who said that Odo does not have a sense of a humor, though they shared a laugh at the expense of Doctor Julian Bashir and Chief petty officer Miles O'Brien after claiming the two were still a couple of centimeters shorter following their experience on the shrunken USS Rubicon due to a subspace compression anomaly. Prior to this, both Lieutenant commander Worf and Ensign Nog stated that they did not see what was so humorous about being small. 

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