All Jokes Are Bad If They Are Any Good
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2014-02-24
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Does anything go in humor? My answer is, yes, potentially, anything goes. Does that mean there are no limits in humor? Not at all. Humor depends upon boundaries—if there were no limits, there would be no humor. I contend that humor consists in the artful and playful transgression of boundaries, and I’m going to illustrate this contention by looking at practical jokes.
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Keynote presentation for the 20th Australasian Humour Studies Network colloquium, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, February 2014.
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Humor, Practical Jokes
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