There is, as has been said over millennia, no accounting for taste. This is especially true when it comes to comedy. Thinkers of all stripes have considered it seriously — Socrates had his doubts about comedy’s moral character; Freud thought it assuaged the psyche — but attempts to explain why people laugh at certain situations or turns-of-phrase are a fool’s errand. When someone asked Stan Laurel what was funny, he was aghast: “What is comedy? I don’t know. Does anybody?”