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.
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.
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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh or that he can make you laugh?
