Mind's Eye Re: Humour

On cultural expectations - I have seen comedians getting the crowd
roaring whilst I have been left cold and even revolted. Teenagers in
particular laugh at what's been deemed funny by peers. Undergraduate
classes miss many visual jokes and comedic themes that more mature
students get immediately.

On 1 Dec, 13:27, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Another thought is how the emotion is diverted into another response
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> On Nov 30, 9:04 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Me too Molly - I wonder what the term 'I didn't know whether to laugh
> > or cry' means?
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> > On 1 Dec, 00:06, Molly <mollyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > would much rather be laughing.
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> > > On Friday, November 30, 2012 6:29:50 AM UTC-5, andrew vecsey wrote:
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> > > > What In find interesting is how it is almost impossible to see the
> > > > physical difference of someone laughing his head off and someone crying his
> > > > heart out. Both are a result of a sudden unexpected disclosure of truth..
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> > > > On Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:51:00 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote:
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> > > >> While there is only speculation about how humor developed in early
> > > >> humans, we know that by the 6th century BCE the Greeks had
> > > >> institutionalized it in the ritual known as comedy, and that it was
> > > >> performed with a contrasting dramatic form known as tragedy. Both were
> > > >> based on the violation of mental patterns and expectations, and in
> > > >> both the world is a tangle of conflicting systems where humans live in
> > > >> the shadow of failure, folly, and death. Like tragedy, comedy
> > > >> represents life as full of tension, danger, and struggle, with success
> > > >> or failure often depending on chance factors. Where they differ is in
> > > >> the responses of the lead characters to life's incongruities.
> > > >> Identifying with these characters, audiences at comedies and tragedies
> > > >> have contrasting responses to events in the dramas. And because these
> > > >> responses carry over to similar situations in life, comedy and tragedy
> > > >> embody contrasting responses to the incongruities in life.
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> > > >> Tragedy valorizes serious, emotional engagement with life's problems,
> > > >> even struggle to the death. Along with epic, it is part of the Western
> > > >> heroic tradition that extols ideals, the willingness to fight for
> > > >> them, and honor. The tragic ethos is linked to patriarchy and
> > > >> militarism—many of its heroes are kings and conquerors—and it
> > > >> valorizes what Conrad Hyers (1996) calls Warrior Virtues—blind
> > > >> obedience, the willingness to kill or die on command, unquestioning
> > > >> loyalty, single-mindedness, resoluteness of purpose, and pride.
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> > > >> Comedy, by contrast, embodies an anti-heroic, pragmatic attitude
> > > >> toward life's incongruities. From Aristophanes' Lysistrata to Charlie
> > > >> Chaplin's The Great Dictator to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11,
> > > >> comedy has mocked the irrationality of militarism and blind respect
> > > >> for authority. Its own methods of handling conflict include deal-
> > > >> making, trickery, getting an enemy drunk, and running away. As the
> > > >> Irish saying goes, you're only a coward for a moment, but you're dead
> > > >> for the rest of your life. In place of Warrior Virtues, it extols
> > > >> critical thinking, cleverness, adaptability, and an appreciation of
> > > >> physical pleasures like eating, drinking, and sex.
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> > > >> Much humour is cruel - but try and read cruelty in to 'Doctor, doctor,
> > > >> I've lost an electron'.  'Are you sure'?  'Yes, I'm positive'.
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> > > >> What do we think humour is?- Hide quoted text -
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