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Humor & Comedy

Laughter as wisdom — the way comedy reveals truth by approaching it from the side.

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Books
Book

Inside Jokes — Matthew Hurley et al.

Why things are funny — a cognitive science account of humour. Rigorous and actually amusing.

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People
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Matthew Hurley et al.

Cognitive scientist whose 2011 Inside Jokes, with Daniel Dennett and Reginald Adams, proposed a unified theory of why humans evolved laughter — as a reward for catching the mind's own mistaken inferences.

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Tools & media
Media

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

The most consistently funny literary humour on the internet. Dave Eggers' gift to comic writing.

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Comedy is tragedy plus time. — Mark Twain