Obligatory mention of New Yorker cartoon in Seinfeld's last season, dissected by Mankoff: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-kitty https

Obligatory mention of New Yorker cartoon in Seinfeld's last season, dissected by Mankoff: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-kitty https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-k.... Great quote he uses from E. B. White: “Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” If you still want to go ahead and dissect there's a whole area of linguistics devoted to this topic and this journal: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr