What Makes Something Funny?

NPR:

Ever wonder what makes something funny? E.B. White once wrote that “humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” A look at an explanation behind the punch line.

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Published May 6, 2011

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