Joel Warner Quotes

Most Experts Today Subscribe To Some Variations Of The Incongruity Theory, The Idea That Humor Arises When People Discover There's An Inconsistency Between What They Expect To Happen And What Actually Happens. Or, As Seventeenth-century French Philosopher Blaise Pascal Put It When He First Came Up With The Concept, "Nothing Produces Laughter More Than A Surprising Disproportion Between That Which One Expects And That Which One Sees.

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