Trainspotting – Local or universal humour?
Simon Critchley wrote that “A sense of humour is often what connects us most strongly to a specific place”. This got me thinking about films… Read More »Trainspotting – Local or universal humour?
Blog Post 8 (due 5 PM Monday 27th March)
Critchley / Berlant & Ngai / Laguna
Emily Taylor- Jimmy Carr’s Racism vs. Stewart Lee’s Anti-Racism
Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai’s description of the ‘comic alibi’ evoked by certain comedians is reminiscent of the discourse that emerged after Jimmy Carr’s His… Read More »Emily Taylor- Jimmy Carr’s Racism vs. Stewart Lee’s Anti-Racism
Maddie Cornetta – Humor and Language Barriers
Critchley comments on the ways in which humor function as a vernacular, changing based on region, culture and language. Language barriers also functions a humor… Read More »Maddie Cornetta – Humor and Language Barriers
Isabel Burney — Atlanta and the Ambiguity of Racial Humor
Donald Glover’s Atlanta humorously investigates race relations with varying levels of awkwardness, subtlety, and surrealism. It is a noteworthy example of the ambiguity and relativity… Read More »Isabel Burney — Atlanta and the Ambiguity of Racial Humor
Raya Milushev – ‘Derry Girls’ and community forged through humour
Berland and Ngai’s idea that “Comedy helps us test or figure out what it means to say “us.”” indicates how comedy helps strengthen our personal… Read More »Raya Milushev – ‘Derry Girls’ and community forged through humour
Francis Yamamoto – Critchley, Foreign Humour and In Bruges
Critchley stated that “in ethnic humour, the ethos of a place is expressed by laughing at people who are not like us, and usually believed… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Critchley, Foreign Humour and In Bruges
Nicholas DiCorpo – Ethical Humor in South Park vs. Ken Jeong’s Mr Chow
For this week’s blog post, I wanted to focus on this quote from Simon Critchley in his book On Humor: “In ethnic humour, the ethos… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Ethical Humor in South Park vs. Ken Jeong’s Mr Chow
Caroline Vandis — The Benefit of “Insider Cultural Knowledge”
A major critique of a lot of the sitcoms and teen dramas of the 90’s and the early 2000’s was that there was zero to… Read More »Caroline Vandis — The Benefit of “Insider Cultural Knowledge”
Kas Schroeder – Airplane! and Jive
For this week I wanted to examine a particular gag from the film Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, USA, 1980) that a few… Read More »Kas Schroeder – Airplane! and Jive
Kevin Landers- The Irony of Anti-racist Humour & SNL
The most gripping section from the readings this week was, in my opinion, the section from the “Comedy Has Issues” article entitled ‘Take Our Wives,… Read More »Kevin Landers- The Irony of Anti-racist Humour & SNL