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Sometimes puns are funny, and sometimes they're just punishing. And a lot of people really, really hate puns.
Puns are pretty much "the formula" for making jokes. Though they can get old, they're always recognizable as jokes, which suggests that a theory based on "multiple meaning/decoding/framing" is probably on track. Hm, I wonder who suggested such a theory... ;-)
You really think puns are "the formula" for making jokes? You think hunter-gatherers were making puns before they were telling funny stories?
I mean "the formula" (like I said) in the sense that it's guaranteed to produce a recognizable (though not good) joke, not that all jokes are puns.