Humor Is the Best Way to Overcome Adversity
Take a minute to think - how many times a day do you laugh at work? Of those times you’ve thought of, how many times have you laughed with your boss? Skilled leaders within a company understand the importance of these four organizational outcomes (also known as the 4Cs): Community, Composure, Change, and Creativity. „Stand-Up Strategists“ understand how to utilize humor through the 4S – Styles of Humor. What are the Styles of Humor? These were identified based on research…...
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Meme Cultures Effect On User Identity
Social Media has led to the creation of various online communities. As the internet has developed, language has been modified through different dialects and new slang. The online communities that exist now vary from gaming pages to meme pages dedicated to a specific type of humor. In this essay, I am specifically looking at a meme page that began on Tumblr. The meme page I am covering caters to the young who engage in self-deprecating humor. This page is a community of…...
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Many People Like Vulgar and Crude Humor
Disinhibition can be understood as communicating to others without any social inhibitions or filters due a lack of consideration to the consequences. Disinhibition tends to typically occur in the virtual world of the internet rather than in face to face interactions. Disinhibition is a common occurrence that most of us have experienced. Many of us have said things on the internet that we normally wouldn’t have said to others in person. Personal connection I have often disinhibited myself on the…...
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Family Comedy TV Show
Peter Griffin, from the hit Television show Family Guy, once stated in an episode, “I do not know who you are. I do not know what you want, but I have a very particular lack of skills. I will never be able to find you, but what I do have is two dollars and a Casio wristwatch. You can have one of them.” When Peter states that he has a “lack of skills” he is adding humor to the show.…...
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One Hundred Years of Humor in American Advertising
Throughout history, America has steadily remained a consumer society. In effect, advertising has responded accordingly to the ever-changing business demands of the citizens, and the cultural context of our society. As Elliot West, author of “Selling the Myth: Western Images in Advertising”, has stated, “Small wonder, then, that advertisers have drawn heavily and often on the western myth” (West, 38). Previously, the goal was to simply sell a service or product, but as the goals and techniques of advertising agencies…...
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Theories of Verbal Humor
Abstract In this paper, we propose a methodology that aims to develop a recommendation system for jokes by analyzing its text. This exploratory study focuses mainly on the General Theory of Verbal Humor and implements the knowledge resources defined by it to annotate the jokes. These annotations contain the characteristics of the jokes and hence are used to determine how alike the jokes are. We use Lin’s similarity metric and Word2vec to calculate the similarity between different jokes. The jokes…...
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What Makes This Joke Funny
In this paper we will discuss two theories of humor and comedy, the incongruity theory and the relief theory. These theories have their own explanations of what makes something funny and why we laugh as well as their own strengths and weaknesses. The incongruity theory is the most influential theory of humor and it is widely held among scholars and academics since the 18th century. says that “humor is a response to incongruity that is, the contrast between two radically…...
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Humor and Music: Influence on the Human Condition
existed with humans and dates back to ancient human history (Freeman, 1988). Music helps promote dance in unison because of the rhythm and people innately relating the to rhythm. Many cultures practice social dances for telling stories, celebration, language formation, or connecting to one another (Brown & Parsons, 2008; Gladding, 2016). Dancing in synchrony is just as much connecting with others as it is connecting with the music. When a human’s brain hears music, certain areas active. The orbitofrontal cortex…...
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