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Whаt is it аbоut humоr thаt makes us laugh? The clue lies in the fact that almоst all jokes involve a contradiction between two realities, usually a conventional and an unconventional one. These two realities represent conflicting definitions of the same situation. To make people laugh, we first make them aware of their taken-for-granted, conventional definition of a situation, then surprise them by contradicting it with an unconventional one. Look, for example, at the following joke from a study by one researcher: My wife comes home and says, “Pack your bags. I just won $20 million in the California lottery.” “Where are we going? Hawaii? Europe?” I ask jubilantly. She says, “I don’t know where you’re going, Doug, as long as it’s out of here.” The first two sentences set up in our mind the conventional assumption that the married couple will share the joy of winning the lottery. The punch line undermines that assumption with the unexpected reality that a presumably loving wife wants to be free of her husband. 3. The humor in the joke comes from the