What are YOU laughing at?

In class we talked about "The Onion", "America's Finest News Source", and the pens "for her" (which if you act now, you ladies can get them yourselves for only $10!) and why we find things so funny. "The Onion" is a perfect example of a satire it makes fun of real news sources and makes up funny stories to make you laugh at how ridiculously true some of them are. One of their articles, "Teenage Girl Blossoming Into Beautiful Object", makes us laugh at how ridiculous, but sadly true, this article is. By exaggerating their points, people find things like this funny. I think it's because they laugh at how brutally honest this article is. Some of the theories that the above linked article mentions is:

1. The Superiority Theory: "we learn a lot about humor on the playground, where taunts and teases produce laughter for the masses but shame and embarrassment for an unlucky few"
2. The Incongruity and Incongruity-Resolution Theories: "humor happens when there is an incongruity between what we expect and what actually happens"
3. The Benign Violation Theory: "we laugh when something is violated — like morals, social codes, linguistic norms, or personal dignity — but the violation isn't threatening"
4. The Mechanical Theory: "inadaptability or rigidity — the repetitive nature of our personalities — that is the source of humor"
5. The Release Theory: "Freud thought that hilarity and laughter were reactions we produce in order to release sexual or aggressive tension"