ABSTRACT

I have Talked a good deal about animals and babies so far, because I want to establish a basis for the art of humor in our biological inheritance.Man has been defined as the laughing animal, but that is not strictly accurate. Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double in extreme hilarity trying to get that rear-end exuberance forward into the main scene of action. What puts man on a higher stage of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.