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More adventures of the Great Brain
In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.
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Relief Theory and Drama: A Freudian Reading of W. H. Andrews and Geoffrey Dearmer’s Farce, The Referee
Joking is an incongruous behavior that emerges from within a social framework and is considered a violation of social order. Freudian psychoanalysis sees joking as the revealing of the downside to a socially constructed “reason.” Jokes lead to an involuntary action called laughter, which paves the way for the outburst of intellectual tension, and laughter is a shared emotion that results in deepening communal bonds, providing a relief from those intellectual tensions. This article will explore the dramatic actions and comedy inherent in farces that challenge ideological social codes through a reading of W. H. Andrews and Geoffrey Dearmer’s one-act play, The Referee, using Freud’s relief theory. The analysis is based on Freud’s study of jokes in his essay, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, where he addresses laughter as an act of disposing of unwanted thoughts like a waste to maintain mental health. This article examines the play in accordance with the Freudian idea of jokes being an unconscious action that comes from the unconscious mind, a brief release of mental anguish, and lastly a parallel conversation that occasionally tries to interrupt the reason in front of it.
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Knock! Knock! Who was there?
Over 300 side-splitting jokes based on the New York Times best-selling series. If you want to know exactly why Milton Hershey's wife married him, look no further. (Because she wanted lots of Hershey's Kisses!) This hilarious and original collection of jokes featuring all the subjects of the ever-popular Who Was? series will keep kids laughing right through history class!
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Comedy Has Issues
Comedy's pleasure comes in part from its ability to dispel anxiety, as so many of its theoreticians have noted, but it doesn't simply do that. As both an aesthetic mode and a form of life, its action just as likely produces anxiety: risking transgression, flirting with displeasure, or just confusing things in a way that both intensifies and impedes the pleasure. Comedy has issues. Here, Berlant and Ngai examine one worry that comedy engages is formal or technical in a way that leads to the social: the problem of figuring out distinctions between things, including people, whose relation is mutually disruptive of definition.
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Laugh-out-loud A+ jokes for kids
A collection of school-related one-liners, knock-knock jokes, and tongue twisters.
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Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews
Jokes-based interviews can help to reduce social desirability bias of responses on sensitive topics, such as unethical business behaviour or other norm transgressions. The jokes-based interview method is relevant for academic researchers, as well as for practitioner researchers such as consultants, or journalists. The method uses public jokes as invitation to reflect on work experiences related to the jokes, such as pressuring leadership, dirty work, or work-life conflict that tend to be normalised. Illustrated for a critical leadership cartoon, the interview method triggers junior consultants’ memories of experiences with pressuring managers, and managers’ memories of how their juniors deal with overly high leadership demands. The method creates rapport, as the business jokes not only introduce the topic, but also serve as an icebreaker. When applying the method, joke selection is key, as some jokes introduce the topic better than others. Cartoons are especially good at inviting an open conversation on norm transgressions relating to ethics, aesthetics, or social norms. Interviewees also need sufficient room to freely interpret, associate, and elaborate. Next, follow-up questioning is important, and preparing a topic list may help to do so. Some limitations to this method are that jokes can become leading, and that interviewees do not give authentic answers. Therefore, it is important to use public jokes and to keep distance as a researcher: do not make these jokes yourself. Also consider that business jokes are critical, and that jokes-based interviews initially do not invite reflection on the positive side of business life. However, in the follow up conversations this may very well happen.
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Elmer and Snake
Two friends of Elmer the patchwork elephant want to play a trick on him with help from Snake, but Snake and Elmer have plans of their own.
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SARAH SILVERMAN IS AT ZERO AGAIN
The comic blew a lot of new material (and emotional energy) on PostMortem, a comical eulogy for her late parents. Didn't you meet your boyfriend playing Call of Duty? [...]I do believe art always finds a way and that comedy always finds a way.
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