If you have ever had the experience of laughing so hard your sides ached, you might also have wondered what it is, exactly, that makes something funny. Humor has been acknowledged for centuries. Even sages like Plato wrote treatises on how to use humor to manipulate political processes. If you really want to know what makes humor work, set aside a few hours for a good meander, go online, and start researching the scientific basis of what makes something funny. Just don’t forget to climb back up out of the rabbit hole.