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Assuming the question was "Where did comedy come from?", I'll take a stab at answering that.

Comedy is a concept in which a piece of literature, spoken word, or visual performance attempts to amuse or draw laughter from the audience. If you accept this definition, then the answer is that comedy came from our ancestors long ago, possibly when they were something somewhat akin to monkeys. Modern monkeys do things to amuse one another, such as flip, throw feces, or urinate on another animal or another monkey. Other monkeys are then observed laughing their monkey heads off and the routine starts over until there is no more interest.

Within "literature" there is a history of comedy that predates Western Civilization by the oral tradition of humorous story-telling. I used quotes to emphasize that oral tradition is not literature per se since it does not necessarily lead to a written form.

Look up the definition to "comedy" on Wikipedia for the rest of what "comedy" means.

Just remember that many things in life got their start long ago, before there were video cameras and the internet, and before people used tools and knew what words were.

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