Humor In Speaking was one of the more popular (and useful) posts on this site in the past 12 months - and the featured laugh Doctor is back again. Today the San Francisco Chronicle has him on the front page of the Sunday Style section - worth looking at.
And only here can you see a video version of Laugh Therapy and the Chronicle article illustrated.
Use humor in presenting yourself, but use laughter in your communicating all the time. Laughter connects with others, and as you see here, and as it says in both print and media, forced or genuine, it works.
I haven’t read the entry Humor in Speaking before so I went back to check it out. I do agree that people feel more at ease with someone who is funny. Maybe it’s because positive energy just emanates from funny people… With jokes, I once read that they have to be very simple. It’s not considered a joke when you have to explain the punch line to everybody.