As a central component of political discourse and a prolific resource for argument, political humor targets leaders, politicians, or representatives as well as political institutions, groups, actions, and parties. Each of these groups is liable to be a political humor theme. Although previous literature has proved that analyzing the themes of political wisecracks presents valuable information about the socio-political concerns, thematic analysis of political jokes, particularly, in Iranian and American contexts, as a necessary clue for understanding serious sociopolitical issues seems to be an area in need of further analysis. In order to address this problem, this study investigated the most popular themes in Iranian and American political humor. Analysis showed that the general themes of Iranian and American political humor are more similar than different. However, while sexual infamy, racism, and gun control marked considerable themes of American humor, despotic forces and religion-related humor seemed to be exclusively Iranian.

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The Battery Dies Quicker Than a Black Guy: A Thematic Analysis of Political Jokes in the American and Iranian Contexts

A partir das obras teatrais comicas de Ariano Suassuna, surge a possibilidade de investigar, ao menos panoramicamente, alguns aspectos do risivel na sua poetica, o que se mostra, por conseguinte, como uma produtiva vertente de estudo critico, principalmente no que diz respeito a valorizacao do carater regional, folclorico e popular da comicidade nas obras que compoem nosso corpus . Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho, desenvolvido com o apoio do CNPq, tem em vista descrever e analisar mecanismos e funcoes do comico em algumas pecas, por meio de revisao bibliografica e do embasamento teorico fundamentado em estudiosos como Freud (1977), Bergson (2007) e Bakhtin (2002), dentre outros, que contribuirao para a elaboracao, no nosso estudo, de um painel sobre o riso na producao literaria suassuniana, alem de nos levar a apreciar o papel mais premente desse comico, se ele e repressor, libertador ou revelador, servindo, em tese, para moralizar, criticar, alem de dar a ver o contradiscurso (seja religioso, economico, patriarcal).

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Sobre o teatro cômico de ariano suassuna

This article argues that comic moments and comic characterisation are used in Tobit as a means of satirically exposing a type of Yahwism characterised by inward-looking piety, religious and ethnic endogamy, and simplistic notions of retribution. Comic moments and comic characterisation, are therefore important ethical devices in Tobit used to expose the problematic nature of an obsessive emphasis on religious boundary maintenance as demonstrated by the extreme version of endogamy that Tobit endorses. The article argues that the theme of “insults” in Tobit, and the distinction between public and private behaviour serves to destabilise the main character’s hyper-religiosity. The article suggests that Tobit’s restrictive form of Yahwism and his overzealous Yahwistic piety are exposed and undermined in Tobit to illustrate for audiences that the deity Yhwh does not operate within a mechanistic moral calculus. The article pays close attention to the significance of the language and translations of Tobit when making this case.

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Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism

Humor as a Virtue: Pride, Humility and Humiliation

This study aims to provide an overview of humorous travel-related memes shared during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 80 Internet memes were content analysed for emergent themes. The findings reveal three major themes: playful aggression, making fun of one’s longing for travel, and making fun of new travel realities. The identified themes were linked to the existing literature to better understand the memes being studied. The analysis of memes provides a methodologically agile way to study conditions that may otherwise be overlooked, e.g., peoples’ travel-related desires and concerns while in lockdown © 2022, European Journal of Humour Research.All Rights Reserved.

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Citations

The Battery Dies Quicker Than a Black Guy: A Thematic Analysis of Political Jokes in the American and Iranian Contexts

Sobre o teatro cômico de ariano suassuna

Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism

Humor as a Virtue: Pride, Humility and Humiliation

Travel-related humour and COVID-19: insights from memes

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