Enjoy this video of Deepak Chopra answering the question, “What is a joke?” then following his explanation with a joke of his own.
“The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, with contradiction, with ambiguity, and with a shift in perspective. What is a joke? A joke is when the deepest part of your consciousness, which is your soul actually, recognizes a paradox and laughs.”