Thank you, I've wanted to poke into comedy for awhile now! Didn't realize there was established theory, but that makes sense. Note that I do think "raising the

Thank you, I've wanted to poke into comedy for awhile now! Didn't realize there was established theory, but that makes sense. Note that I do think "raising the stakes" is a valid explorative method - you can use it to make small details much more visible, for example - even it's not so valid as an argument. So it's not so much about avoiding people who do that, as much as it about zeroing out the impact of them doing that.