this is probably a better description:As with fantasy, humor has...

this is probably a better description:

As with fantasy, humor has such a far-reaching role in emotional (and indeed, even physical) health that we wouldn't consider trying to completely drive it out of someone - unlike, say, regression. However, it's not universally appropriate. A pattern of habitual, inappropriate levity (particularly where the subject disrupts structured proceedings such as court or class) can indicate a true disorder in social development. Humor is pathological to the degree that it substitutes for authentic emotional experience.