Good advice by Pres. James Faust from an article in Ensign Mar 2000 entitled "Finding Balance in Our Lives"...
“Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.”
I think what he is saying is to not take ourselves so seriously that we can’t step aside and look at any situation and find the humor in it and the real life lessons that can be learned. There is however, humor in the world that is borderline and sometimes negative or sick, that tears down and doesn’t build others. Under this category, I would put those remarks others make to tease, label, criticize or put down others for their own amusement. You know what I am talking about as you have probably been labeled once or twice in your life by some insensitive person. Hopefully, you haven’t been the one guilty of putting others down just to be entertaining. What do you think?