Much humour is based in a sudden awareness of incongruity between expectations or perceptions and the reality of things as they actually are. Like we expect the Pope to conform to some image we have of what it means to be a "Pope" and then it becomes hilarious whenever the reality reflects something different, in a lighthearted way in this case.
There is a difference between good humour and the more morbid end of the spectrum. A refined sense of dark humour and irony is probably within the golden mean.
There is a difference between good humour and the more morbid end of the spectrum. A refined sense of dark humour and irony is probably within the golden mean.
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