Recent researches showed that humor possesses the function of emotional regulation. Individual’s subjective well-being,the management of sadness as well as the effectiveness of adjusting anxiety can be enhanced by using humor properly. The reason of humor to emotional regulation can be contributed to changing effectively the individual’s perception of situation regulation and alleviating the pressure of life events by humor. That can achieve the goal of regulation to negative emotion and enhancement to positive emotion. Future research should further focus on the moderating effect of humorous style in humor and emotional experience,the mediate function of resilience in humor and emotional experience as we as the individual’s difference of humor to emotional influence.