翻译材料 Whats so funny? John McCrone reviews recent research on humour The joke comes over the headphones: Which side of a dog has the most hair? The left. No, not funny. Try again. Which side of a dog has the most hair? The outside. Hah! The punchline is silly yet fitting, tempting a smile, even a laugh（这个笑料很愚蠢，但是仍然足以让人发笑，甚至大笑）. Laughter has always struck people as deeply mysterious, perhaps pointless. The writer Arthur Koestler dubbed it the luxury reflex: unique in that it
