Saturday, March 7, 2009
On the nature of humor
What is funny? A man stands in front of a building. The front of the building falls over and miraculously, he is spared as a door opening drops right where he is standing. We all laugh. This Buster Keaton clip is a classic in the world of comedy and features that tendency to find things that could have been potentially harmful, or even death full to be funny. We also find drunk people funny, when it is a comedian imitating a drunk person. Drunk people on their own, not so funny. So it is when I...
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