How Does Carroll Deconstruct The Sense Of Funny?

Noël Carroll begins his, not so, very short introduction with a joke. It is about a man who becomes a regular at a pub and often drinks three shots at a time, in remembrance of his two brothers. One day he comes in and asks for only to drinks, which elicits an apology from the bartender. Confused, the man asks why, the bartender responds that surely one of his brothers had passed, for him to be only drinking two shots. At this, the man replies, that it isn't either of his brothers that are wounded, but himself. After this joke, Carroll begins to deconstruct the sense of "funny" one might get from this joke, assuming they found it funny at all. He describes the sensation as 'comic amusement' and identifies the object of such as humor, which

In Lameman's terms, after taking the time to review something, harboring a specific emotion that causes our bodies to physically react. Correlating it to fear, he describes a situation where he is afraid of a tarantula in his sleeping bag, assessed that is was dangerous and required him to fear it, or react negatively, which caused a chill in his body. Similarly, Carroll says, when we assess something as funny we feel comic amusement and our body responds. Namely, we hear a joke we believe to be humorous (thus humor becomes the object of comic amusement), and we laugh. Noël continues on with an etymology of the word 'humor', its Latin roots and how it came to change from one's state of body fluids, to its present terminology. He describes it as being to prevalent in day to day life, that even chimps who were taught ASL puns found them enjoyable. However, he reflects on Plato, and his general distaste and distrust on humor and laughter. Carroll talks about how the man even went to far as to discourage images of gods and heroes laughing to be shown to the guardian class in his