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Yeah, humor-as-status-shift doesn't fit into Warrigal's or SilasBarta's explanations very well. Then again, since evolution tends to reuse things already made, there's little reason to expect there to be only one use for humor.
Humor doesn't make much sense to me, and neither does music. I have no conscious understanding of what distinguishes things that are funny from things that aren't. I simply recognize some things as funny and others as "not funny", and I can even set out to write funny things and succeed, but I have no theory of humor.
Indeed, it's likely that the best theory of humor is a short list.