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Taking laughter seriously
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The article was published on 1982-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 475 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Laughter.read more
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The normativity of humor
TL;DR: The authors argue that the concept of humor is a distinctive kind of normative concept, and that humor should be understood as involving a kind of violation of the norms that constitute other normative concepts.
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‘A pleasure working with you’: Humour theory and Joan Rivers
TL;DR: This paper used humour theory to examine Joan Rivers' performance in Live at the Apollo and examined specific comic moments from the performance to show to what uses these theories can be put; in doing so, it foregrounded pleasure and the relationship between joke-teller and audience, as the key paradigms in such an analysis.
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The importance of tendency: an extension of Freud’s concept of tendentious humor
TL;DR: De Gruyter as discussed by the authors made a distinction between innocent humor and tendentious humor and made the distinction between "distracting humor" and "tendentious humor" in the sense that "humor which supports the text is tendency, in that it develops the tendency of the text rather than detracting from it".
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Violence dressed in humor: comedic violence in advertising
TL;DR: In this paper, the main theories of humor and the most important elements from media violence paradigms are critically pointed out and the effects of comedic violence in advertising may be positive (great involvement with the ad message, retention of brand information, higher pass-along probability), and also negative (offending the audience, desensitization, damaging the reputation and the brand equity).
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The Function and Content of Amusement
TL;DR: The main contenders for the content of finding funny are the incongruous, the incongoherence, and the favouritism thesis as discussed by the authors, and it is not clear how the phenomenon described by the favoritism thesis arises from a state with this content.