What is funny?

Right! This time i’m writing a poem that’s not too serious

Ohh-kaay … gotta have some gravitas though

As a matter of fact it has. But we’re accessing that with a Lighter Tone - quirky - Ham-it-up-a-bit!

Yeah … don’t go berserk though. Something that might work on the slam-circuit. Nudges the listener … not bludgeons …

Maaate! Nice Mind Lattice. I’m ..

Ohr wait: gotta make it rhyme … so the judges’ll know it’s poetry …

& don’t forget ta repeat a line - to amplify significance

Now - let's get to: THE Essence:

As an art, what is: funny?

Uhm … if it makes someone laugh …?

Well, ya half right, it detects it, but what generates that laugh?

Koestler’s Act of Creation, says it’s Victimization (jokes at someone’s expense) &/or Bisociation (connecting two unrelated concepts).

I see, nice but non-funny, input.

I didn’t give the bisociation example yet …

My nephew is great on the piano. He can play anything

Wow… does he play by ear?

Noo … he uses his hands

Haha, but we heard X wittily say that in a party conversation, so, technically, (a) it’s not original (b) it’s not poetry

Agreed.

So before we explore further: Don’t be mentioning The C-word. &/Or: THE V-word - we’ve all moved on

Yes sir. Though some would say the definition of poetry is: to speak the unspeakable

Cool. But it breaks our Golden Rule: not funny

Weelll … technically … it’s: funny peculiar …

How’s that ?

Bat Lady .. Batman .. & .. The Virus Hunter: cook-up a: Super Bat Virus … in …: The Bat Lab

Using real nicknames they’d already given themselves …

Holy Pandemic Potential! Hope security was tight …

Yeah-nope. Whoops …

Luckily we’d been working on: the exact vaccine variant to fix it!

& btw: China’s brand of Totalitarianism is: “open & transparent”

Huhhuhhuh! Yeah-but - you’d have to admit …it did catapult us into a dystopian Science-fiction Movie - including: Draconian Restrictions on: all Freedoms - AI Surveillance - literally up ya gazoo …

That’s dark bro : not funny

Indeed - anal recognition technology is going too far.