Formula of Laughter

A Russian-American researcher claims to have gotten to the bottom of the mystery of laughter and has even concocted a for-real, living, breathing and sweating mathematical “Formula of Laughter”.

So, the question is: why do we laugh? Don’t answer sumthin smart like “because it’s funny!” Think about it. Why do we laugh? What is the social role of laughter? What are we trying to do when we joke?