
Category: Blog Post 3 (due Monday Feb 8 by 5 PM)
Readings:
• Sigmund Freud, “On Humor,” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London: Hogarth, 1955), 160-166.
• Mary Douglas, “Jokes,” Implicit Meanings (New York: Routledge, 1975), 146-164.
• Lisa Trahair, “Jokes and their Relation to…” The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick (Albany: SUNY, 2007), 105-123.


Wanna See My Displacement Joke?
Reframe the Framework

Death Becomes Us – Robert Miller

Can you think of anything more anti-consumerist than a bug?

Stand-Up Comedy And The Losing Battle Of The Heckler – Craig Thornton
Stranger Than Fiction
Karl Pilkington’s child-like ego

Maybe we shouldn’t play football: Humor as a defense mechanism in Generation Kill – Will Edic
