Fashionably Late Lippitt Blog

I was most persuaded by Schopenhauer's formulation.  His description of incongruity theory and the examples were much easier to understand.  In Anthony Jeselnik's works he always has a line he follows in a joke and he will just randomly run off on a tangent and take an absurd and dark turn.  These theories I feel have different meanings.  They both describe different comedies.  The Schopenhauer's formulation describes the incongruity theory very well.  This helped me understand why I found these jokes so funny and understand the incongruity theory.  Gaining the understanding really helped me figure out the other theory.   Most times a crowd is specifically targeted by the author in some sense.  There is never one theory that completely explains all of comedy since everybody laughs at different things.