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Same, since this is something I struggled with for a while and this thread is old I will try to give (my) understanding of humour in general and how it applies here.
Okay, as far as I can tell the root of all humour is something unexpected/surprising/confusing.
A lot of wordplay operates by having you understand a sentence one way then
The surprise here is that you expect where there is a will there's a way, and you expect "will" to refer to willpower, the unexpected aspect is that when you get to the end of the sentence it actually means last will and testament.
Comical misunderstandings in comedy fall under this, "edgy" humour is predicated on the idea that people will conform to polite discord then they break it. Cringe comedy is the same but rather than polite it's "cool" (or whatever the atonym for cringe is.)
In this case the surprise is just that the doll looks like the daughter, you expect the doll to be some random famous character and instead it's an image of someone you know.
This is mildly amusing but not that funny, what makes it hilarious (I assume) is the feedback loop between father and daughter. If he had been in the shop and seen it by himself there might have been a chuckle but not much more.
He shows her the mildly funny doll, she makes an unimpressed face as seen in the photo; she probably finds it a bit funny, but doesn't want to give her dad a "win" for something which is vaguely at her expense, so puts on an unimpressed face. Having known her for her whole life Dad understands what is happening intuitively, this is the second layer of funny where the daughter is putting on an act, then it compounds because the contrast between his reaction and hers is amusing and the more he finds the situation funny the more pointed the contrast becomes causing a feedback loop.
The difference in reaction is a classic comedy trope people find funny, thats why most multi person comedy acts have someone play "the straight man"
Sadly I don't think I can source this since nobody explains any of this so it's all observation and trial and error