Humor means literally to indulge or tolerate someone’s humor (noun) where the noun intends not the modern sense of joking or a transient mood but the now archaic sense of temperament or idiosyncracy or eccentricity.

Humor me means indulge me —in the sense of gimme some slack or gimme a break but less aggressive than these. It is used most often as an appeal, at once gentle and ironic, to an interlocutor who interrupts one’s discourse; it means, approximately, Let’s treat what I’m saying (or doing) and you’re objecting to as mere personal whim. On that basis, allow me to finish, and then you can have your say.

How can you prove me wrong if I am wrong, personally?

Hey, friend. Can you stand under this bucket of water? What

is the solution? “Humor

me. “Ok,

alright. In

my opinion, it isn’t necessarily sarcastic, it’s simply a way of saying: “Just comply with what I’m saying/doing right now and you can contradict me later.” ”

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