Socrates tended to be of the disposition that humor was the art of being superior to another person. Mark Twain thought humor was laughing at miserable things. People spend much of their daily lives laughing and joking. Apes also have been found to laugh and find things funny but do not make jokes. Gorillas and Chimps have laughed at accidental puns. Rats chirp ultrasonically when tickled. Humans are the only ones who purposely make jokes which might be because of our abilities to anticipate and think ahead into the future. Much of culture relies on humor. Its generally psychologically a dealing mechanism on both sides. Psychology states that comedians generally use it because they need it to deal and also so they don't have to be as open with people and can push them out. However right psychology may be humor is more about the relationship with someone than how funny in general the joke is. Frank is Larry's best friend. He makes a joke. Larry and Frank are both in hysterics. Frank decides to use the same joke at the gas station whilst waiting for his gas. The gas station man finds it very cheesy. What is humor? There are three leading theories. One as previously stated is the oldest and is an abrupt feeling of superiority over people, another is the release of built up energy and the last is that humor is simply something unexpected.Yet there is no conclusive answer about this. The most brilliant thing about humor is that scientists have no idea why we do it. They've been puzzling over it for decades following theories such as that different races genetically enjoy different types of humor which has virtually no basis.
So with all out scientific advancements and after all this mucking about and trying to solve the conundrums related u we still have no idea why people laugh or find things humorous. Thus concludes this article
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