Do you take overseas fans into account when choosing what jokes to incorporate into your photos?
Broadly speaking, my only criterion is whether it’s funny or not.
I believe laughter has a depth and universality that transcends generations. And laughter has the effect of livening things up instantaneously. It also has the power to make people happy. Laughter is a communicative shortcut, and I think it applies to communication between family members as well.
“If you can make ‘em laugh, everything’s OK!” is also one of my theories on “familyhood,” as a father. Actually, the emotional bonds, solidarity and unity of a family (and surely of lovers, and the fellowship of friends, co-workers, etc. as well) come from watching, listening to and reading the same things and laughing together. I think those connections must be born of simple things like that.
So, I don’t want to get just my family to laugh, but the other people who see the photos I upload, too. I want others to savor, as I do myself, the wonderfulness of the instantaneous connection and solidarity of laughing together.