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.

许多幽默反映了我们生活中最黑暗的事情——死亡、焦虑、失败——但它并没有让我们与它们和解，而是帮助我们对它们感到骄傲的反抗和坚强。