Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Sometimes we have to actually say I think you're really funny but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.