Unit 6 · Chapter 31 · 9 min
Comedy theory without the beret
Incongruity, superiority, relief — the three explanations, and the one thing they all agree on.
Philosophers have argued about why we laugh for 2,400 years and produced three theories. Incongruity: laughter is the resolution of a mismatch. Superiority: laughter is a small feeling of winning. Relief: laughter is the release of pressure that had nowhere else to go.
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