Why did humanity suddenly discover a sense of humor in the 1600s?Don Q, Sammy Ps diary, confusiones de la confusiones... all have a LOL witty passage or four in there. Prior to this, just about nothing. Where did this come from all across yurop? When the modern offices bros humor is a collection of Will Ferrell movie references, you have to think there is some comic progenitor or Q source in the 1550s that taught them how to make a witty joke.
you honestly haven't read enough if you think comic writing didn't exist before the 1600s
>>24946207Rabelais is much funnier than Cervantes. Read more.
>>24946302But it did. There is a dramatic jump in humor around the 1600s. Prior to this, jokes had been stagnant for the majority of human history. Joke architecture relying on puns in ancient Sumerian tablets essentially following the same double meaning architecture as classical humor and what came after.
>>24946317I'm sorry, but you're just not well read. The idea of a Don Quixote was already done by the medievals before Cervantes wrote it.
>>24946207Christianity caused us to lose our sense of humor. The pagans knew how to be goofy.
>>24946573Okay, I’ve cited specific examples, what’s a work from before the 1600s with humor that doesn’t boil down to a pun mister literate?
>>24946720No wonder abrahamic bvlls crushed this shit. Now it seems Irony and white self hate is a thing especially in Europe and needs to be crushed by Islam
>>24946720Maybe this thing was funnier on stage cause ...
>>24946770NTA, but Canterbury tales has plenty of comedic bits.
>>24946207Answering here cause everyone else is being retarded. It's cause of the Printing Press. Prior to that literacy was a skill for the elite and pretty much all literature was about serious stuff. Politics, History, Philosophy, Theology, things that bore you to death. Then the Printing Press came along and created literature as we know it today. Suddenly books were not a fortunate anymore and more people could read. Literacy became basic education instead of a professional skill. So you started to get romance books, diaries, manuals, newspapers, pamphlets, and yes comedy books as well.
>>24946859Same with The Decameron
>>24946207The Zhuangzi is repeatedly hilarious and written in like 300BC. I disagree with your premise. Telling Confucius to fuck off for being a pretentious jackass will never not be funny and "The Useless Tree" telling the carpenter that he doesn't know shit about what makes a good tree or a bad tree is also delightful. The only problem with that book is you need to be fairly familiar with Daoism, symbolic logic, and for the love of God don't read the footnotes.
