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very very funny video Ancient Greece <br />Western humour theory begins with Plato, who attributed to Socrates (as a semihistorical dialogue character) in <br /> <br />the Philebus (p. 49b) the view that the essence of the ridiculous is an ignorance in the weak, who are thus unable <br /> <br />to retaliate when ridiculed. Later, in Greek philosophy, Aristotle, in the Poetics (1449a, pp. 34--35), suggested <br /> <br />that an ugliness that does not disgust is fundamental to humour. <br />India <br /> <br />very, funny, video, cool, fun, ever, best, worst, greatest, youtube, worlds, had, thing, biggest, world&#39;s, <br /> <br />best ever, first ever, wanted, fastest <br /> <br />In ancient Sanskrit drama, Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra defined humour (hasyam) as one of the nine nava rasas, or <br /> <br />principle rasas (emotional responses), which can be inspired in the audience by bhavas, the imitations of emotions <br /> <br />that the actors perform. Each rasa was associated with a specific bhavas portrayed on stage. In the case of <br /> <br />humour, it was associated with mirth (hasya). <br />Arabia <br />The terms "comedy" and "satire" became synonymous after Aristotle's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the <br /> <br />medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Arabic writers and Islamic philosophers such as Abu <br /> <br />Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from <br /> <br />Greek dramatic representation, and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms, such as hija <br /> <br />(satirical poetry). They viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension" and made no reference to light and <br /> <br />cheerful events or troublous beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin <br /> <br />translations of the 12th century, the term "comedy" thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature.[5] <br />Incongruity theory <br />The Incongruity Theory originated mostly with Kant, who claimed that the comic is an expectation that comes to <br /> <br />nothing. Henri Bergson attempted to perfect incongruity by reducing it to the "living" and "mechanical".[6] <br />An incongruity like Bergson's, in things juxtaposed simultaneously, is still in vogue. This is often debated <br /> <br />against theories of the shifts in perspectives in humour; hence, the debate in the series Humor Research between <br /> <br />John Morreall and Robert Latta.[7] Morreall presented mostly simultaneous juxtapositions,[8] with Latta countering <br /> <br />that it requires a "cognitive shift" created by a discovery or solution to a puzzle or problem. Latta is <br /> <br />criticised for having reduced jokes' essence to their own puzzling aspect. <br />Humour frequently contains an unexpected, often sudden, shift in perspective, which gets assimilated by the <br /> <br />Incongruity Theory. This view has been defended by Latta (1998) and by Brian Boyd (2004).[9] Boyd views the shift <br /> <br />as from seriousness to play. Nearly anything can be the object of this perspective twist; it is, however, in the <br /> <br />areas of human creativity (science and art being the varieties) that the shift results from "structure mapping" <br /> <br />(termed "bisociation" by Koestler) to create novel meanings.[10] Arthur Koestler argues that humour results when <br /> <br />two different frames of reference are set up and a collision is engineered between them. <br />Metaphor and metonymy <br />Tony Veale, who takes a more formalised computational approach than Koestler, has written on the role of metaphor <br /> <br />and metonymy in humour,[11][12][13] using inspiration from Koestler as well as from Dedre Gentner's theory of <br /> <br />structure-mapping, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphor, and Mark Turner and Gilles <br /> <br />Fauconnier's theory of conceptual blending. <br />Social demographics <br />As with any form of art, acceptance depends on social demographics and varies from person to person. Throughout <br /> <br />history, comedy has been used as a form of entertainment all over the world, whether in the courts of the Western <br /> <br />kings or the villages of the Far East. Both a social etiquette and a certain intelligence can be displayed through <br /> <br />forms of wit and sarcasm. Eighteenth-century German author Georg Lichtenberg said that "the more you know humour, <br /> <br />the more you become demanding in fineness." <br />Evolutionary explanation of humour <br />Alastair Clarke explains: "The theory is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual <br /> <br />finds anything funny. Effectively, it explains that humour occurs when the brain recognises a pattern that <br /> <br />surprises it, and that recognition of this sort is rewarded with the experience of the humorous res