The Humor Code Quotes

“Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency between what they expect to happen and what actually happens. Or, as seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal put it when he first came up with the concept, "Nothing produces laughter more than a surprising disproportion between that which one expects and that which one sees.”
― Joel Warner, The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny

“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process”
― Peter McGraw, The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny

“E. B. White wrote ‘Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.’ ”
― Peter McGraw, The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny