“幽默”是课堂教学的“润滑剂”。本文主要介绍了幽默在历史教学中重要作用:它能够营造活跃的课堂气氛;能拉近师生间的心理距离;能帮助学生更好地理解和记忆;可以塑造学生开朗的个性,发展创造力。同时也介绍了运用课堂幽默的几种方式,以及在运用幽默语言过程中注意的问题,最终达到学生快乐学习的宗旨。 “Humor ” is classroom teaching “lubricant ”. This paper mainly introduces the important role of humor in history teaching: it can create an active classroom atmosphere; can narrow the psychological distance between teachers and students; can help students to better understand and remember; can shape the cheerful personality of students and develop creativity . At the same time, it introduces several ways of using classroom humor, as well as the problems in the process of using humorous language to finally achieve the purpose of students’ happy learning.