At the same time, a humorless workplace would be a dreadful place to work in, and research shows that when managers fail to take humor seriously, it demoralizes their teams and impairs their performance.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomaspremuzic/2023/07/09/is-humor-still-acceptable-at-work/

He should be dancing a jig, were it not for the fact that pretty much anywhere that he does ultimately get a job is likely to present him with the same humorless, censorious, and unforgiving Leftist environment.

Source: https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/04/04/massachusetts-school-officials-job-offer-rescinded-because-he-called-two-women-ladies-n1684382

The humorless French philosopher Henri Bergson insisted that comedy occurs when something organic is transposed into something mechanical, and that seems to be the case here: a stomping, hat-throwing fury is directed at a stationary metal box.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/carmageddon-daniel-knowles-book-review-paved-paradise-henry-grabar