Just observing the current and most recent great teachers, they all seem to have a delighful sense of humor.
Even when one reads about the supposedly 'tough/dour' ones such as Patrul - it is also clear there was great humour always bubbling away underneath that would often burst forth in quite instructive ways.
Humour-laughter-irony; whether on the surface, or always bubbling away just underneath, seems to come with the enlightenment territory.
Much of what we imbibe historically can only be taken on inferential faith, but most convincingly, from the example of the Buddha's descendants. Given the highly realised state these guys reside within, it seems highly unlikey that the historical Buddha didn't also share those qualities and, indeed, passed them on as part and parcel of those same liberating qualities.
frankly, I'd run a mile from the ones where humour and laughter appeared to be absent, as suggestive that something had gone very seriously wrong in their dharma education.
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Chan Master Hsuan Hua and humor