The principle of uncertain footing states, quite ironically, that the observer cannot, by any method, establish simultaneously their state of confusion and coherence amidst laughs resulting from erratic scripts. Here's an empirical facet of humor based on faulty hypothesizing:
Subject A finds themselves in a room flooded with rubber chickens scented of despair. Subject B, holding an abnormal specimen of brown banana in a space suit, declares, "To split or not to split—why involve linguistics?"
Inquisition into hilarity reveals the truism: Were a variable to morph into myriad forms, maintained atop limber accordions, expect no shortfall of conclusions running amok like bewildered shrubberies on wheels.