Book Review: The Humor Code

Marvin
1 min readSep 21, 2018

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I am a zealous fan of humor, watch lots of sitcoms, sketch-comedies, talk shows, ever plan my personal show at Shanghai, recent years, I have a little bit confuse about humor, some kinds of humors are good and funny, but lots of others are evil and make me vomit, is there a boundary between them? I always fuck myself in this ideological way

Yesterday I did some research about my question, and a TED talk did a quite excellent job to this topic:

So I followed the speaker’s bread crumbs, by a fast reading to understand the whole concept about humor, even Goodreads only giving 3.41 point to this book

Finally, I totally agree with Peter McGraw’s perspective about what is funny, aka this Venn diagram in this book:

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