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Category Archives: Humor
Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life
Philosopher David Shoemaker writes in his new book: * The funniness in jokes is found primarily in their logical or semantic structure. Many writers like to point to the incongruity of jokes as the source of their funniness, perhaps involving … Continue reading
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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter (2-18-24)
01:00 Dooovid’s renunciation of humor, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid02:00 Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15411213:50 Dooovid: People who like me find me funny23:40 Dooovid – the most serious guy in the shul 25:00 … Continue reading
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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States
Political scientist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in this 2019 book: * In their 2014 book The Outrage Industry, Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj chronicle the growth of a new genre of political programming through the 2000s; programming that places a … Continue reading
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Extemporaneous Blending: Conceptual Integration in Humorous Discourse from Talk Radio
Cognitive Science professor Seana Coulson writes in 2005: * When speakers produce language, listeners use that linguistic input along with background and contextual knowledge to set up simple cognitive models in mental spaces (Coulson, Semantic Leaps). Similarly, when people look … Continue reading
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When Did It Become A Bad Thing To Be Offensive?
When Jews like Lenny Bruce and Al Goldstein were on the way up in America, it was a great thing to be offensive. In the 1950s and 1960s, Jews led the fight for free speech. Now they lead the fight … Continue reading
Are There Fewer Jokes These Days?
A mate of mine in Australia says: “I’ve been enjoying all these old James Bond movies. I enjoy the sexism and racial stereotyping that prevailed in the early Bond movies. It’s a breath of fresh air. There was one set … Continue reading
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Jews Used To Drive Taxis
A clearly inebriated woman, stark naked, jumped into a taxi in New York City and laid down on the back seat. The cab driver, an old Jewish gentleman, opened his eyes wide and stared at the woman. He made no … Continue reading
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The Onion Loses Steam
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Ever since the Onion apologized 3 years ago, for saying that Quvenzhane Wallis was “kind of a c*nt”, they’ve been going downhill in terms of being politically correct. With the exception of a few articles … Continue reading
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Think You’ve Got A Tough Job?
Back in 2003, I wrote about Dildos of Shame.
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When Is It OK To Make Jokes About Jews?
From Kveller: But here’s my dilemma. I make Jewish jokes all the time. Case in point: I was at a birthday party recently. The dad hosting the party was Jewish. We were playing on his kids’ new swing set when … Continue reading