Our intellect finds pleasure when we're amused by the contrived absurdities of life. While laughter may be a supplementary motor area reflex, humor arises when our minds find corrections to contradictions, as if searching for the end to a maze. And the faster we travel, the funnier the destination. We laugh when we reach the goal. Like Aristotle who said, "Man is a goal-seeking animal," we wait for the delivery of the punchline, all the while seeking the creative connection intellectually. When the punchline finally unfolds, it taps into our primitive emotional circuitry, and we "get it."
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