As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.