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30 SEP 2006
Ambiguity is true
The joke uses ambiguity, and has no truth value. But ambiguity is true, the formula of maintaining the uncertainty between two or more outcomes, as a source of laughs, to produce entertainment. Funny people will soon learn to accept multiple possibilities, as opposed to the serious marks who think of only one. We do better by making the uncertainty obvious, so the audience knows it's a joke.

The corollary is that funny people don't mastermind jokes, which takes a load off. We maintain ambiguity and don't know how our own jokes will turn out.

Funny has no plans. That equates to ambiguity in the present. Work both sides and not worry where it's going. The jokester does not need to take a position, even secretly, of knowing the joke. When many actors play together, the outcome is unknowable.
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