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This article is an attempt to come to grips with an often unexplored facet of human nature, i. e. comedy. Whilst tragedy has received due attention, comedy has often been relegated to the margin as being unworthy of serious debate. In my endeavour to do justice to comedy, I stop awhile at tragedy to show that, though apparently distinct, the two genres have some binding threads in common. Then, I sketch out in chronological order the main theories experts elaborated to explain what it is that makes human susceptible to laughter, laughter being the legitimate child of comedy. Last but not least, I go on to explicate the power inherent in the comedic moment, a moment of healing and critique albeit transient.