Comic Disparateness
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.17
The Similar and the Dissimilar > Unlikely Couples
Theoretical move: Comedy's defining structure is the conjunction of disparate elements in an unexpected, non-normalized way; this immediacy makes comedy resistant to reflection, universal theorization, and temporal translation, yet that same structure (unlikely connection) constitutes the universal formal condition for the comic effect.
In a comedy, two elements that seem unrelated to each other become necessarily connected, and the unlikely nature of this connection produces the comic effect.