Why are jokes funny?
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Jenny's Gone On Vacation
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The funny part is the unexpected twist. A solid joke sets up a scenario where you expect a certain outcome, then subverts your expectation. A really good joke gets you trying to come up with your own clever outcome and then hits you with something that you didn't see coming. At least that's the "classic" way of looking at humour. Contemporary psychology has expanded the way we look at humour such that it is more subtle and also more fluid.
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Unexpected twist/irony
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Often they are not...
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They're not
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