I find the subject "comedy & form" very interesting. The problem is
that it's sometimes very hard to decipher why exactly we laugh at
stuff & why exactly we find a particular form beautiful. So how do we
connect both?

The observation is very correct: some "funny" gags or scenes feel
frightening when one is aware of their full aesthetic beauty. The
examples are numerous, many times the audience laughs at a joke but I
feel the joke is overridden by the "serious" form, so in fact there is
no joke there.

But the exact opposite is also true, some scenes that seem very
ordinary can be hilarious just by their rhythms... Blake Edwards films
such as "S.O.B." are good examples. Even better ones are Robert
Breer's films (possibly the greatest filmmaker ever)... Can there be
something funny about abstract shapes? The answer is yes, since comedy
depends on our expectations, and Breer's films, constantly new,
side-step our expectations 24 times a second (or more).

In Chuck Jones' case, my experience has been complicated. Midway
through the Chicago Film Center's great retrospective, I just couldn't
laugh, seeing only tragedy, and I was also too busy discovering myself
through the evil of Bugs Bunny or Road Runner. Similarily, Daffy Duck
going crazy was not funny anymore, it was too true to my own daily
life to laugh at. By the end of the retrospective I was able to laugh
again, at the tragedy of my own mental breakdown.

An unappreciated film that has the perfect form for a comedy is
Murnau's "Finances of the Grand Duke". It's one of the funniest things
I've ever seen...

Yoel