![]() ![]() ‘So, I bought some animal crackers, and the box said: ![]() The listener is led down the garden path, following the deliberately laid trap, before the punchline reveals the unexpected, ‘true’ meaning. In fact, jokes and puns share a common mechanism with cryptic crossword clues, since they are all examples of ‘insight puzzles’: a form of mental challenge which briefly exasperates the would-be solver, before suddenly resolving itself in a gloriously satisfying “Aha!” moment.įor example, a punning joke is usually based on two alternative interpretations of a scripted feed-line, one more ‘obvious’ than the other.
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