What is humor?

[History]

What is the mechanism behind a joke that makes it funny?

[mandyjw]

It's just what we're made of. 

https://www.etymonline.com/word/humor

All good humor is self deprecating illuminating. It's an unexpected illogical revelation that feels absurdly amazing. 

 

[Oliver Saavedra]

Funny is the twist of the idea, the unexpected punchline which makes you re-arrange the information in another way. Like the other day I saw a policeman on the street pulling a piece of string, do you know why he was pulling it? Because have you ever tried pushing a piece of string??

Funny is also the contrast of an idea and its context. Like Leo talking about paranormal stuff and then saying he will teach us how to get a hot witch girlfriend. Nobody expected that shit from a serious philosophical dude.

Funny is also saying something that puts a funny or absurd image in your mind, they way this happens is that your brain projects certain expectatives and when it gets twisted and confused it forces you to want to suck my pale limp dick.

bye

 

[Gesundheit2]

Sleight of mind.