A lot of humor picks up on the darkest things in our lives-- death, anxiety, failure-- but rather than reconciling us to them, it helps us to feel cockily defiant and strong about them.

很多幽默都抓住了我们生阴暗的一面——死亡、焦虑、失——但它们并不是让我们对，而是帮助我们对这些事情感到自信、反抗和坚强。