The Science of Laughter: What Makes Us Chuckle?

You know so one is to make us liked by other people. And also, you know, we laugh because we find things funny as well. But in terms of comedic stimuli, to use professor Martin's term- that do make us laugh or at least amuse us, there's a few theories as to what does the trick. So you've got the one theory is the incongruity theory, and the idea behind this is that we see two things going together that should not normally go together, and because of that we laugh.