if i'm with friends, it's how we bond. if i'm at work with a client, it serves a superficial role of bonding but really let's me direct the conversation. if i'm at work with internal stakeholders it interrupts the flow of serious people who generally have bad ideas. there is also a very strong case to be made for the more serious a person is, the less potential they have for leadership because their thinking is too linear, i.e. you will consider "this is what i say should he done" to mean "this is what will occur." just my personal take, but a funny person will have a better view of unintended consequences because most of humor involves picking up the sode bits of a conversation and oresenting them in a different manner, much like occurs with bisiness decisions in the real world. that being said, it's important to know when to shut it the fuck off, but if you can't also turn it on them you're not vood for anything but an office drone.
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