Douglas / Trahair
I agree with Douglas’ argument that a joke results through an attack on control and it factors into our interpretation of jokes. This is evident… Read More »Maddie Cornetta – Early 2000s Films and Shock Factor as Comedy
Mary Douglass, in her reflections over the nature of jokes, and in consideration of Bergson and Freud’s respective accounts, claims that jokes offer some kind… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Douglass, Social Structures and the Joker
In the Mary Douglas reading, she outlines the traits of ‘The Joker’. She explains that the jokes told by this figure “expose the inadequacy” of… Read More »Screen Comedy Week 3 – “The Joker”
And on that farm he had a shaggy dog! Mary Douglas’ example of the “shaggy dog story” reminded me of the unassumingly masterful (in my… Read More »Isabel Burney — Norm Macdonald had a farm
Lisa Trahair outlines Freud’s understanding of jokes and how the unconscious plays a pivotal part in their production; specifically, in tendentious jokes. In his description… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – ‘Unconscious’ Jokes and Curb Your Enthusiasm
Trahair’s chapter Jokes and their relation to… addresses the differences in relation paradigms that Freud uses to distinguish between comics and jokes. While they are… Read More »Hana El Hilaly -Comic, Jokes and Insults- Frankie Boyle Audience Annihilation
In Mary Douglas’ essay she suggests that jokes are used in relation to power structures as a way of challenging the nature of authority. This… Read More »Stan- Punching Up/ Punching Down: Mary Douglas, Lennie Bruce and Ricky Gervais
Lisa Trahair describes Freud’s idea of an “innocent joke” as “exhibitionism or the desire to show ‘show one’s cleverness,” and that making such jokes is… Read More »Caroline Vandis — The Innocent Joke and Living in Squalour
In her chapter on jokes, Mary Douglas describes the role of the joker as a “minor mystic” and “one of those people who pass beyond… Read More »Anastasia Norenko – Trainwreck and Joker at the Funeral
Mary Douglas’ writing about the various takes on jokes, specifically the remarks she made assessing the roles of consciousness and control in defining jokes themselves… Read More »Kevin Landers-There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand