[jobim]

Tenth g boys are the funniest creatures. It’s their humor that SNL started on.

Absolutely correct. 2 of the funniest guys ever are Murray & Belushi,
both Second City alums. I hail from the same time and place as
they do, and I always saw them as Chicago sophomores - they brought
this to the world brilliantly.

I taught sophomore English for 20 years, and a term I always instilled was
wise fools, or sophos moros, which the Greeks perfectly nailed:
a 15/16 year old has an adult brain and a child's disposition, making
them outrageously unpredictable, innocent, mishievious, and funny.

[stanne]

Brilliant!

I never studied this, just an observation.