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Nonsense. Humor is lots of fun, but it's far, far from the measure of reason. I'm under the impression that, in every country, a reliable source of mockability is alien-seeming accents. I'm told that, in mainland China, at least 50 percent of TV humor consists of Chinese people mocking each other's regional dialects. I could give any number of examples in English, but is it really necessary?
Other sources of humor would include: people falling down, big noses, and -- at least in English -- words with a difficult 'K' sound.
None of these examples involves an actual proposition that can be 'reasonable' or true or false. I don't think this is the kind of mockery that Adams is talking about.