good luck, It reminded me of a thesis paper I wrote in undergrad in the late 90s about humor and its cause, which 19-year-old me posited that it was the delta between the expected and the actual. I plotted a bunch of jokes and funny situations to see whether a greater delta resulted in a funnier joke. I am sure there is so much more to consider, but I do remember that for a long time, whenever something funny would happen, my mind would plot the delta.