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7061596

Anonymous Tue Sep 1 21:25:19 2015 No.7061596 [Reply] [Original]

What is humor and how does it work?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 21:25:48 2015 No.7061600 Humor is a spook

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 21:36:31 2015 No.7061653 Because you laugh

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 21:36:48 2015 No.7061655 Good question. Any good /lit/ or a grand theory on why things are funny?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 21:38:18 2015 No.7061665 >>7061596 A coping mechanism

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 22:08:28 2015 No.7061787 >>7061596 I read somewhere that the joy experienced when realizing something is absurd is a motivating factor to analyze and throw out bad ideas.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 2 00:40:35 2015 No.7062267 >>7061596 Life's greatest joy. Usually through absurdity, misdirection, or exaggeration.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 2 00:44:00 2015 No.7062276 A joke is an object between two subjects. Or maybe it was a subject between two objects. I don't remember, but apparently Freud said it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 2 17:59:27 2015 No.7063908 >>7061596 it's the ridiculous and it lets us chillax