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In the part of this scene that precedes the excerpt below, Paul is very excited. He has resolved the remaining issues in his term paper by deriving an explanation for what makes something funny and that avoids the pitfalls of previous theories on humor. Prof. Groves, on the other hand, shows little enthusiasm – indeed, appears to be paying only scant attention – to Paul’s explanation of what makes something funny. The excerpt below follows on the heels of that explanation, as Paul, still
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(Groves, at his desk, is still playing idly with a pencil. Paul, with a thick batch of paper in his hand, stands and paces excitedly as:)
PAUL: Which really cracks the whole thing wide open. ’Cuz the thing about what’s comic, then, isn’t just some other guy’s a clown and doesn’t know how to behave. It’s that our behavior too is screwed up, in that it fails to
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