audience, in order to enjoy humor must "get" the joke. This means they the joke, a humorous narrative with the denouement embodied in a punchline. Some of the best joke-tellers make their jokes seem to be hearing a joke. In other instances, the joke is identified as such audience expects and waits for the punchline. The joke is a kind of Freud theorized that jokes have only two purposes: aggression and fulfilled through the hostile joke, and the second through the dirty joke. Humor theorists have debated Freud's claims extensively. The to function, jokes must fulfill a number of performative criteria in or feigned. Jokes are such well-known communicational structures in the joke to be humorous. The realization that people laugh when professional comedians must try out their jokes on numerous audiences, 1953-74 Jokes and their relation to the unconscious. In The standard 1992 Jokes and their relations. Lexington, KY: The University Press of 1974 An analysis of the course of a joke's telling in conversation. In