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How do you create a funny joke?
In order to create a funny joke, one first has to realize that the world is not like it seems. A person's mind sees things in certain ways, creating patterns and associations of things with each other.
Humor is an attempt to convey a concept which lies beyond the mind's normal perception. Jokes are often created when two patterns of thinking, or two perceptions of reality, clash with each other.
For example, here is a joke: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken. Of course, this is silly because chickens cannot be attached to other objects and then sent across roads.
Humor also arises when things are juxtaposed in an unexpected way. This is why we laugh at a person who falls down the stairs, even though it's not funny to see someone hurt.
Humor also arises from the perception that something is not what it seems. For example, a magician might pretend to be trapped in a box, then appear to climb into an empty box.
In this way, humor is often about associative logic. A person's mind has certain associations built in, so that when one thing happens, the mind expects another to happen as well.