How can you have your beady eye on me if you are all ears?
Anyway...
Language seems to be the best candidate for what separates Homo sapiens from other species; and, although other species sometimes can be shown to have something a little like human language, there has never been any evidence of syntax -- the ability to construct new sentences.
So, why, in the world, would someone not delight in something that is so human?
There, that was brief ("the soul of wit").