This essay summarizes the author’s observations of the audience and performers of an improv group and puts their reactions in the context of different types of humor (deadpan, epigrammatic, and blue). Notes that current film productions seem to gravitate toward more blue humor leading to the conclusion that audiences may prefer it. Nevertheless, the performance, which was more comparable to a 1950’s situation comedy, still left the audience entertained
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While the appeal of humor lies, typically, in its very spontaneity and original contextual incongrui...
What Is A Amusing Essay? A hilarious essay, unlike other essay papers, is a document that is suppos...
Throughout its history, stand-up comedy has done much more than make people laugh. While many of th...
Between March and June 2008, a group of fifteen Performance Studies and Communications students at M...
The goal of every teacher is to connect with his or her audience. Humor has a way of disarming...
People can laugh at almost anything. What’s the deal with that? What makes something funny? ...
People can laugh at almost anything. What's the deal with that? What makes something funny? This ess...
The People\u27s Improv Theater was an oasis for young New York comedians. Its own success-- and a vo...
The purpose of this study is to explore the experience of the individual who spontaneously produces ...
Over the last three years I have been fortunate to teach an unusual class, one that provides an acad...
Stand-up comedy is not just for entertainment. It is a platform that many comedians have used to que...
In this paper we take up the topic of conversational humor by analyzing instances of teasing, joking...
A brief and personal exploration of laughter and dark comedy: what laughter is, what it means, and w...
This paper describes systematic observation, research, and analysis of Laughter for a Change (L4C)’s...
I would like to thank Dr. Mark Sibicky for being my advisor throughout this process. His patience an...
While the appeal of humor lies, typically, in its very spontaneity and original contextual incongrui...
What Is A Amusing Essay? A hilarious essay, unlike other essay papers, is a document that is suppos...
Throughout its history, stand-up comedy has done much more than make people laugh. While many of th...
Between March and June 2008, a group of fifteen Performance Studies and Communications students at M...