“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”
— E. B. White
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Understanding humor is like taking apart a frog in a science class. When you study a joke too closely, it stops being funny, just like how the frog stops being alive. Most people find it unappealing to see all the details inside. Imagine someone telling a joke at a party. Everyone laughs because it's funny and spontaneous. But if you then try to explain why the joke was funny by analyzing each word, it ruins the moment and the joke loses its charm. Only people who study comedy like a scientist might find this breakdown interesting, but for most of us, it's just not fun anymore. So, it's often better to simply enjoy humor rather than try to pick it apart.
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