I like to share the PART ONE of this book ==> the science of humor as seen from a distant. QUOTE: 1st law ==> things can be funny only when we are in fun.
... we may in only ‘half in fun’ and still funny.
2nd law==> when we are in fun, a peculiar shift of values takes place.
... pleasant things are still pleasant, but disagreeable things, as long as they are not disagreeable enough to ‘spoil the fun’, tend to acquire a pleasant emotional flavour and provoke a laugh.
3rd law ==> ‘being in fun’ is a condition most natural to childhood, and that children at play reveal the humorous laugh in its simplest and most omnivorous form.
... to them every uptoward, unprepared for, unmanageable, inauspicious, ugly, disgusting, puzzling, startling, deceiving, shaking, blinding, jolting, deafening, banging, bumping, or otherwise shocking and disturbing thing is enjoyable as funny.
4th law ==> grown-up people retain in varying degrees this aptitude for being in fun, and thus enjoying unpleasant things as funny.
... but those not richly endowed with humor manage to feel a very comic feeling only when within , or behind, or beyond, or suggested by, the playfully unpleasant thing , there is a pleasant one. Only then do they laugh uproariously like playing children.
... and they call this complicated thing or combination of things at which they laugh, a joke.
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