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- Category: Comedians
- Founded: Jan 22, 2005
- Language: English
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Discussing humor. Appropriate topics are comic writing such as jokes or short humorous articles (less than 200 words) The group is invited to discuss this humor writing in a critical manner. Also, we really enjoy discussing the process of writing humor. If you have ideas about how humor works, and the mechanics of its production, please share your thoughts. Remember be nice or be barred!
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Re: New humor to analyze
Most humor is based on incongruence. Twain here produced an incongruence between tone and content.Twain often used elevated language in contrast to subject.
Posted - Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:33 pm
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edwardhrst
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Re: Another piece to analyze
Yes, it is a play on the word "find". Then you have the basic triple repetition. The one thing to keep in mind for this joke is the idea of comic perspective
Posted - Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:21 pm
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edwardhrst
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Re: Another piece to analyze
Urg! I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing here. However, I guess you are asking what sort of technique this is? It seems to be classic setup and punch
Posted - Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:41 pm
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Sheila Moss
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Another piece to analyze
A man is stumbling through the woods totally drunk when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river. He proceeds to walk into the water and
Posted - Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:39 am
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edwardhrst
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New humor to analyze
By temperament, which is the real law of God, many men are goats and can't help committing adultery when they get a chance; whereas there are numbers of men
Posted - Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:04 pm
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