Give your examples
The following notes are from The Scientific Quest for the World's Funniest Joke.
Three reasons why we find jokes funny:
#1-When they make us feel superior, by depictions of people being silly or stupid, by circumstance or design.
A guy’s walking past an asylum, and can hear all the inmates inside screaming at the top of their lungs, “Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!!!”. He peeks through a hole in the fence to see what all the commotion is about, and a finger suddenly pops out and jabs him in the eye. He yells in pain, and the inmates all start gleefully shouting, “Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!!!”.
#2-When they reduce emotional impact of anxiety-provoking situations, stuff that we’d otherwise avoid – death, sex, marriage, authority, bodily functions...
A woman told her friend, “For eighteen years my husband and I were the happiest people in the world. Then we met”.
#3-Surprise at incongruity, including puns and word-play.
So I went down to the local gym. I said, “Can you teach me how to do the splits?”
He said, “How flexible are you?”
I said, “I can’t make Tuesdays.”
Three reasons why we find jokes funny:
#1-When they make us feel superior, by depictions of people being silly or stupid, by circumstance or design.
A guy’s walking past an asylum, and can hear all the inmates inside screaming at the top of their lungs, “Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!!!”. He peeks through a hole in the fence to see what all the commotion is about, and a finger suddenly pops out and jabs him in the eye. He yells in pain, and the inmates all start gleefully shouting, “Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!!!”.
#2-When they reduce emotional impact of anxiety-provoking situations, stuff that we’d otherwise avoid – death, sex, marriage, authority, bodily functions...
A woman told her friend, “For eighteen years my husband and I were the happiest people in the world. Then we met”.
#3-Surprise at incongruity, including puns and word-play.
So I went down to the local gym. I said, “Can you teach me how to do the splits?”
He said, “How flexible are you?”
I said, “I can’t make Tuesdays.”
posted by The Cruise at 2:30 PM
5 Comments:
We already knew that's how Brent found out you were gay.
Saw a comic at Harvey's who was a writer for "There's Something About Mary". His gaydar joke went like this:
"If I look at a guy, and I get hard, HE'S GAY."
Demetri Martin has picked up where Mitch Hedberg left off from picking up from where Steven Wright left off.
I used to compete in sports alot...then I found out that you could buy trophies. Now I'm good at everything.
If I ever saw an amputee being hanged...I would just yell out letters.
I hang out in sportbars alot. I don't particularly like sports or like to drink....I just like to hi-five.
Mitch, we had so little time with you.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6029452902646144512&q=mitch+hedberg&hl=en
One more Mitch.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9104976284161819323&q=mitch+hedberg&hl=en
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