What Makes Something Funny? The Psychological Theories of Humour.
Why do Brits laugh with self-depreciation, Belgians with quirky defiance, the Dutch at others (mostly Belgians), Japanese with wordplay, and Germans not at all?
The last part is a joke based on a stereotype that isn’t true. Does that make it a bad joke? Depends. Stereotypes, satire, irony, parody, puns, self-enhancement, cyn…
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