Humour Is a Pleasurable Reward

humour is a pleasurable reward inside the brain that we get when we recognize the inappropriateness of a mental representation. The set up puts you in a state of mind to establish an inappropriate or unrealistic mental representation. And then the punch line kind of suddenly cre that inappropriate or incongruous mental representation. But then the brain rewards you for going through that process of de bugging the problematic representation in your brain by giving you this pleasurable feeling of humour, similar to eating delicious food and sleeping.