Ricardo and I met for the third time the other day, for a short lunch at Market Square. It was a short lunch because Ricardo needed to head over to the airport for his trip to Vegas. At this point, he let me know that once he returned from Vegas in a week or so, he would go directly to the airport and back to Brazil. I had no idea Ricardo was to return to Brazil so soon. This was definitely a big communication error on my part. Once I realized I wouldn't be able to meet with Ricardo again, I asked him a few questions about his thoughts on humor.
Ricardo said Brazilian humor, in his opinion, consists of a lot sarcasm. He finds short, clever jokes and sayings in the middle of a conversation the funniest. I told him we usually call that a dry sense of humor. He didn't elaborate much more on the sarcasm, so I asked him what he thought of American humor. He says he finds some TV shows funny like The Office. Ricardo doesn't like the physical humor in America. When a guy goes up to another guy and hits him, he doesn't laugh. I told Ricardo this often called slapstick humor. That was really the extent of our humor conversation because he needed to catch a plane to Vegas. I wished him good luck on his gambling and to have a safe return to Brazil. Though we only conversed three times, I always enjoyed the conversations.
Now, hopefully I'll get a new conversation partner to meet with for the rest of the semester...
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