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ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

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The Congruency Theory of Comedy

The model is basically nervous laughter. Freud's model is the most basic form of laughter and so in some sense all comedy is a sort of it's a deliberate cultivation of nervous laughter. The incongruity theory which goes about to Aristotle is the idea that just something becomes funny because I mean the famous phrase from Aristotle is humor is a buckled mill wheel. It's a wheel isn't rolling straight but for me the whole premise is these these people are living this kind of California lifestyle but they're all they're New Yorkers like Larry or Beauty House.

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