It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions but the humor process is involved in changing them.
If this humor be the safety of our race then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom – it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations – but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
