Teaching to me can be conceived as a theatrical act. As an actor on stage needs to know the line, we as educator needs to know the content of our teaching. However, the difference in theater are the actors must follow lines exactly. But in teaching, we are given latitude to create, add, and innovate the delivery. Yet we can appreciate the common characteristics of both theater and teaching as where these two often works for the purpose of capturing the audience attention.
To me personally, teaching can be a comedy. We should or need to interject humor to make the class interesting. By increasing a sense of arousal, the information delivered can hopefully be effectively stored in the memory of the target students. I can't exactly remember from where I have gotten the information but there is someone or some article that states that by being able to shift the students to a different context on how certain concepts and theories can be applied allows them to remember better and they can create more ways to make association. By giving this opportunity for students to associate with something which is humorous, we can provide further "hooks" which they hang their learning onto.
Although some may argue that the approach of using humor depends on personal style of teaching delivery)
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