TH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lysistrata Jones, Annie Baker, Kendrick Lamar
4/19 Lecture 6: The Aesthetics of Humor
Some girls reggie monologue
Some girls who never be like again
You had something to do with it when a child
Sexually inappropriate rom a young age
What or who is the target of the snail joke
Someone that's impatient, most controversial
Current problem across campuses
Stand up comedians don't want to do shows at universities
WHY? People are sensitive
Chris Rock is offensive on purpose to get a reaction and surprise people
Purposefully shocking because sang objective of many comedians aren't appropriate to say
We have people in next few weeks who are coming to raise issues
Students are too sensitive
Censoring what we see on college campuses so they are not problematic
Who still tours? Sammy Obeid from east bay
Not adobong topics and is self deprecating humor rather than attack style
Let's look at the target of other humor from the Milo alternative
Everyone should have the ability to be poised to everything
Had another alternative performance of the opposite of milo to give others a chance
Dr Kamau bell performed as a result and he's approaching the subject but doing it in a way that's
not offensive and is anthropological and interesting
Benign Violation Theory- Peter mcGraw
Benign--Humor--Violation
Snail joke is in benign category and no target isn't funny
Has to violate something to some degree
Edge we all live in fro humor is the very right
So much of a violation offensive all have different lines
Comedy- When is humor a violation?
May operate on the edge or boundary of humor and pushing to outside edge constantly
Those are the people we cant have on our campus
Let’s predict some automatic humor
The target is everyone and noone is excluded- part of what makes it work
Theorists eht black chinese people- pretty good mixed crowd
Review from last week
The party in power or the party who is targeted is most likely to censor
Is there a physiological function why we laugh of humor?
Some social situations where daughter is inappropriate
Though lost, Aristotle's writing on comedy hinted at comedic catharsis
Lost of studied trying to figure out the purpose of it
A purge, pretty sure that was a companion to the tragedy
“Releasing repressed emotions”, instinctive need to purge our emotions
Humor comes from catharsis comes from when we break taboos
Define taboo- prohibited or restricted by social custom
Sexuality has a lot to do with it, politics, sex, incest, polyamory, beateality
Before you address humor you have to address taboos are
Each country has their own issues, us is a lot of religion
If rifting on christianity wd be bad cuz christina based society
If doing a minority religion, it is bad because becomes a target
Entertainment lies on the attack of social customs
Greek sex totally pen violence was inappropriate or taboo
Scientology is weird because it's new whereas christianity is old
She is jewish it's better than a catholic attacking jewish
Other People can address their topic cuz they have ownership of the thing that is theri target
Who has ownership of making fun who is the person using it and what is the target
Other challenges: brown face and apu, white skinned person voicing a brown skinned american
Funny is funny, we can't blame him cuz hes just the actor
People like apu because of his voice
Himors role in society has always been suspect
Accet could be degrading to brown people
People who don't have power use this to offend people who are in power
Plato- no ppl take lessons in comedy and only people who can are slaves and have no authority
and cant get any worse
Anyone who is serious has enough authority to tear people down and are dangerous
Greeks passed a law This is codified- no one could make fun of greek citizens and could be taken
to trial and killed
The problem with the book of mormon and christianity
Whole part about africa- mormons make a pretty
Document Summary
You had something to do with it when a child. What or who is the target of the snail joke. Stand up comedians don"t want to do shows at universities. Chris rock is offensive on purpose to get a reaction and surprise people. Purposefully shocking because sang objective of many comedians aren"t appropriate to say. We have people in next few weeks who are coming to raise issues. Censoring what we see on college campuses so they are not problematic. Not adobong topics and is self deprecating humor rather than attack style. Let"s look at the target of other humor from the milo alternative. Everyone should have the ability to be poised to everything. Had another alternative performance of the opposite of milo to give others a chance. Dr kamau bell performed as a result and he"s approaching the subject but doing it in a way that"s not offensive and is anthropological and interesting.
