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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- Homework: find one (short-ish) joke that you will tell the class tomorrow
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- blonde jokes - jokes about stupid people, who are always blonde
- pun - a joke where two different meanings of a word (or similar-sounding words) are used to create the humor
- Why was six afraid of seven?
- Because 7 8 9.
- I used to be a banker, but I lost interest.
- What do you call the Children of the Corn's father?
- Popcorn.
- corny/cheesy - really silly and bad, but somehow still funny because it's really bad
- dad jokes - the type of corny jokes that dads always seem to tell. The funny part is that he said something so ridiculous.
- Child: Dad, I'm hungry!
- Dad: Hi, Hungry. I'm Dad.
- Dad: What are you drinking?
- Child: Soy milk.
- Dad: Hola, Milk. Soy tu padre.
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- http://www.richardwiseman.com/LaughLab/home.html
- - overview of the experiment
- https://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ll-final-report.pdf
- - "scientific" report on the full research and experiment. also includes the funniest jokes in specific countries
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- surreal - some element of the joke doesn't really make sense, and it's funny because of this (The Alsatian one is an example)
- self-deprecating humor - humor where people make fun of themselves
- subvert expectations - undermine the joke by making fun of the opposite target from what's expected (the Texan/Harvard Grad joke is like this - at first we think it's going to make fun of people from Texas)
- riddle - trick question (sometimes based on puns)
- ("As I was going to St. Ives" is a traditional English example)
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- black comedy / dark humor: jokes about death and illness and "unfunny" topics
- gallows humor: jokes that you might tell standing in front of an execution
- What's worse than finding a worm in an apple?
- Children's joke answer: Finding half a worm in an apple.
- Black humor answers: Cancer. Murder. The Holocaust. etc.
- (These jokes are very dependent on the audience. I can joke about my dead mother, but you can't, and I can't joke about your family's tragedies.)
- Louis C. K. - stand-up comedian, a lot of his material is pretty dark
- Christopher Titus, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding" - black humor about his own family
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