Critique

According to the text, the author clearly divided people into two groups – people with “highbrow humor style” and people with “popular humor style”. He must have simplified the variations, and then set two typical models for readers to understand the two extreme definitions of “coarseness” and “good sense of humor”.

I don’t quite understand the standards of good sense of humor given by people with “highbrow humor style”, because humor can not exist without its social context, even if it has “sharpness and originality”. I prefer to connect good sense of humor with sociability.

What’s more, I strongly agree that good sense of humor also means that people can take a joke. In fact, I think it is the most important part of sense of humor. People who tell good jokes can make others laugh, and people who can take a joke are more likely to be welcomed by others.