>>25045
>>25044
>>25043
I have read on the subject and I have a much simpler suggestion,
When your brain thinks it is in danger, you get tense.
You read something that makes you tense. You find out there's no danger. You laugh,
When you laugh about something, notice how you were tense before laughing.
Why some people laughed A LOT at a joke, but you did not?
The buildup did not get you into a state of tension. Without tension, you can't laugh at the punchline.
1) Why is it that when you explain a joke to someone, it AUTOMATICALLY becomes unfunny to the person you are explaining it to? Because there is no tension buildup on you when the joke is being explained.
2) If one goes to the subreddit /r/jokes or the subreddit /r/4chan, one can see that all succesful jokes build up a sense of "danger", a "tension" before the punchline.
3) When someone tickles you, why do you laugh? On an unconscious level, your brain thinks it is a predator trying to grab you (it makes you tense) . . . but on a conscious level you know it is not (relieves tension). I know this sounds retarded, but the more you think about it (and about the other things I said) -- the more sense it makes.
4) when your friend falls, why do you laugh? in matter of seconds, your brain gets tense but tension is relieved when you see he is fine
It should be said I have a lot of karma on reddit for making funny OC. Everytime my post did not build tension, it flopped. Everytime it built tension, it got Post too long. Click here to view the full text.