Humor formula

Required components:

* some surprise, contradiction, ambiguity or paradox.
* appealing to feelings or to emotions.
* similar to reality, but not real

Methods:

* metaphor
* hyperbole
* reframing
* timing


Good thoughts, but wikipedia and adaisychain would beg to differ. Humor varies alot from person to person. I think you're way off at the beginning of your post, but as you move on you get closer to what I believe. It's all just guesses though.

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ADaisyChain Reviewed by ADaisyChain on . Guess what? The world will never be the same after today! I just discovered the reason people laugh. When what people see in their mind as the best possible scenario for a given situation and what they see with their eyes match closely enough, some people will laugh. Obviously there are different responses from different kinds of people in different situations, this explains people being classified as enjoying morbid humor, slapstick, british, etc. When this happens, nerves in the brain fire "laughter neurons" that stimulate laughter. Early on in Rating: 5