Philosopher Henri Bergson’s general observations about laughter remind us “that to be human is to be alive and free.”

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Our laughter ‘is always the laughter of a group’, as Bergson put it. Even in those cases when we are effectively laughing alone, to, or perhaps at ourselves, laughter always presupposes an imagined audience or community.

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