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Laugh is triggered when we find something humor. There is no simple answer to why something is funny... Something is funny because it captures a moment, it contains an element of simple truth, it is something that we have always known for eternity and yet are hearing it now out loud for the first time.
I think that our need to feel intelligent comes into play a lot in finding things funny... maybe Funny is actually the overwhelming joy at feeling intelligent. Somebody tries to put on their shoes standing up and falls over in the process. They look foolish, we therefore feel intelligent as we are not the one falling over trying to put on shoes.
We laugh.
Someone makes a clever joke and only a few people get it. If we get the joke we recognize the person as being clever and feel clever ourselves as we understood the concept.
We laugh.
So is Funny partly to do with self congratulation at being intelligent?
Comedy is full of opposites and contradict
I think that our need to feel intelligent comes into play a lot in finding things funny... maybe Funny is actually the overwhelming joy at feeling intelligent. Somebody tries to put on their shoes standing up and falls over in the process. They look foolish, we therefore feel intelligent as we are not the one falling over trying to put on shoes.
We laugh.
Someone makes a clever joke and only a few people get it. If we get the joke we recognize the person as being clever and feel clever ourselves as we understood the concept.
We laugh.
So is Funny partly to do with self congratulation at being intelligent?
Comedy is full of opposites and contradict
