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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Humor Playing Ground
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"We delight, for mysterious reasons, in comic revelations about the inadequacies of the great as well as the absurdity of those all ab...
Samuel Beckett's Nonsensical Humor
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"If life is absurd, as many existentialists suggest, then humor of absurdity can be seen as a means toward realism." Arthur Asa...
Rhetorical Exuberance
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A mechanic cut his hand. Several days later it became infected, so he went to the doctor. The doctor explained what had happened in high...
The Secret Technique Behind the Joke: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
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Why did the Chicken cross the Road? Disappointment and Defeated Expectations (logic) The technique of disappointment ...
Eccentric Humor
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Eccentric humor is based on the difference between what is customary, i.e., "normal," or what we are used to and what we find whe...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Logic of Humor - Coincidences
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A young man was called up for a medical exam by his draft board. When he was examined by the doctor, he pretended he couldn't see. &...
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Humor: A Manner of Speaking
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I would say that manners are important, but that is a gross understatement for some while simultaneously being a ridiculous overstatement f...
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