I agree with the Aristotelean terms others have applied, but I wonder if there isn't something also cognitively unsettling about foreseeing tragic circumstances unfold. We think of knowledge as power but when confronted a tragic narrative, we might have knowledge unattended by power. On the flip side, in humor, we usually hope for surprise in a punchline. When we see it coming, the knowledge affords us a power that disarms the surprise, but with disappointment.
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