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Comedic Coincidence of Lack and Excess
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.40
Lack and Excess > Not Enough Signifiers in the World
Theoretical move: The structural absence of a final signifier in language produces not resignation but an excess of signifiers and meanings; lack and excess are thus revealed as strictly co-extensive, and the pun is theorised as the primordial comedic form precisely because it renders this coincidence visible.
The pun is the primordial form of comedy. It always works through the identity of lack and excess in signification.