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Tiny verbal ambushes where the punchline mugs your expectations and leaves you laughing.
means Short spoken or written bits engineered to be funny, usually building to a surprising punchline.
from From Latin iocus, meaning jest or play, sneaking into English in the 1600s as the lighter sibling of serious speech.
Setup taxThe punchline only pays if the setup misdirects.
Brain mechanicsLaughter rewards your brain for resolving sudden incongruity.
Old as inkA bartender gag survives on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian tablet.