Blog Post 3 (due 5 PM Wednesday 12th February)

In the introduction of Sigmund Freud’s “Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious Mind,” Freud writes, “A joke says what it has to say, not… Read More »Freud and Key & Peele’s “Substitute Teacher”

In 2007 SNL had the unenviable job of responding to inflammatory comments made by the then-president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, renowned for both denying the… Read More »I Blog (So Far Away)

  In “Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious”, Freud writes about how humor can be derived from wordplay and “nonsensical words”. The example used… Read More »I’ll leave when I’m good and ready

In the South Park episode, “Fishsticks,” there is an example of a joke which embodies the scope which Freud expects a new joke to be… Read More »Freud and Fishsticks

In this scene, we see what Douglas describes as “the triumph of intimacy over formality, of unofficial values over official ones” (p.98); Jake’s formality around… Read More »“I Want It That Way”: Jake as ‘the joker’

Mary Douglas describes both definitions of the joke, be it Bergson’s or Freud’s, as an attack on the formal by the informal—here, the only difference… Read More »Shoot For The Stars, Aim for The Punchline (Parthiv Chhabria)