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Comedy is inexplicable.
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The statement says that comedy cannot be fully explained. We may identify what is funny in a particular moment, but no single rule accounts for every joke, situation, or reaction. Its humor remains difficult to reduce to a clear formula.
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- TED — ReThinking with Adam Grant
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