Humour and entertainment
I have asked this before on other boards, most recently here , but answers never resolved. I think the closest we came up with was three sets of characteristics for a joke:- Internal (within the...
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Quote: Does "pure" personal humour and/or entertainment necessarily derive at the expense of self/another/others?Does the 'expense' belong in the question? You fall. I laugh. There was no cost. There...
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I don't think that it is at the expense of anyone, if the person doing it does not mind the joke to be about himself. After all, the only person who possibly would mind would be the person whom the...
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Belated welcome, Orac1e!And valid point: "expense" was an unfortunate choice of words, to express a concept which is difficult to place into words at all (but, well, we have to communicate somehow ;)...
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A thing can only be understood in terms of itself. An answer is only an answer if it makes sense in terms of the given question. If the question is flawed the same follows.
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Quote: You mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?To some extent I question your first premise, 0rac1e, but not your second and third. Although I am learning that experience (or lack...
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Quote: Quote:------------------------------------------------------------ You fall. I laugh. There was no cost. There was no expense. A series of actions. A sequence. My laughter. There was no...
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Hello Orac1e. :)From 1776, the musical: It's a revolution, we're going to have to offend someone.Perhaps every laugh is a mini revolution - a recognition of distance and difference. Some distance we...
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Quote: I laughed because you fell. Why laugh because another fell? What is there about the other's having fallen that is intrinsically humorous?Under what conditions would another's falling be...
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I was trying to imagine laughing as being about recognition of being close, and I actually don't think so. Part of the "distance" thing is that I didn't see the punch line coming. I can imagine myself...
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Try this:In order to derive entertainment from another by laughing at another, one must be able to either:1) laugh at oneself -- and specifically at oneself when one is at one's worst...
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Why do we laugh when someone falls? I read somewhere - I can't believe how many times I'm saying that - that it was because continuity, coherence, was suddenly destroyed. When someone walks on the...
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Quote: Why do we laugh when someone falls? The two-year-old is different. As you point out, Sab, there is an element of "expecting to fall" vs. "not expecting to fall" -- and rare indeed is the...
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Honestly, Sab: no -- and I found slapstick comedy boring. I think I laugh out loud now easily two and three times as frequently as I did growing up. (I leave to your imagination how apparently...
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"Why do we laugh when someone falls? I read somewhere - I can't believe how many times I'm saying that - that it was because continuity, coherence, was suddenly destroyed. When someone walks on the...
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Hee hee.No, no, Eccy, I am offended now. I shall never speak to you again!
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I've read somewhere (copyright Sab 19XX-2002) that laughter is the brain's defense mechanism against absurdity, which sometimes includes breaking apart from expectations.One of my favorite forms of...
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