The First Joke

Laughter is the virtue of being delighted by like incongruity or surprise anything surprising. The first joke we hear as humans is usually peekaboo that's usually like you know you're a baby and the mom does peekaboo I guess. As children get older they'll tell their friends jokes and their friends will make them laugh right they'll make you laugh my daughter was like well it's called pepperoni because we're eating pepper pepper pig I'm like that's a brilliant, great joke she said. Laughter is cathartic even in horrible situations at funerals according to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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