Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy by Misch David
Author:Misch, David [Misch, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: HUM000000 Humor
ISBN: 9781557839664
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Published: 2012-04-01T05:00:00+00:00
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Me and My Dopamine
The Science of Ha!
Everyone who’s ever laughed at Steve Martin has the same question: is there any scientific basis behind it?
The answer is simple. Unfortunately, no one knows what it is.
We do know that despite the evidence from Ms. Goodall’s giggling gorillas (p. 86), laughter doesn’t come only from monkey-skin-saving desperation. It also depends on something the human brain’s really good at: pattern recognition. Only by recognizing the underlying shape or rhythm of a joke or funny story can we be taken by surprise when the rhythm’s interrupted or the pattern altered.
Evolutionary theorist Alastair Clarke:
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