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For the past year people around the world have been invited to judge jokes on an internet site as well as contribute quips of their own. They sometimes make us feel superior to others, reduce the emotional impact of anxiety-provoking situations or surprise us because of some kind of incongruity. The hunters joke...
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news.scotsman.com/funniestjokes/The-worlds-funniest-jok...
news.scotsman.com/funniestjokes/The-worlds-funniest-joke.2366108.jp
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In many jokes, there is an apparent incongruity between the set-up and the punch line. Take the following joke: Two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says: “Do you know how to drive this?”; The set-up line leads us to think about two fish in a fish tank.
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www.richardwiseman.com/LaughLab/incon.html
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The Incongruity Theory Revisited; One of the theories about the causes of laughter ... The distancing effect created by hunor makes it easier to maintain focus and competency. It enables them to conquer their fears and maintain control of their environment. [quote from "Sick Jokes, Healthy Workers." Psychology Today.
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library.thinkquest.org/25500/humor/whatsfunny.htm
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cult problem of “incongruity” relatively untouched. As noted earlier, there are further jokes which have been postulated to be incongruity-resolution jokes ...
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www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~gritchie/papers/aisb99.pdf
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What makes any joke funny? Experts say that humor is based on incongruity. That is, jokes are based on surprise, on elements that don’t go together. For example, a small child who talks like an educated adult, or a respected adult who acts like a child.
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www.dailywritingtips.com/why-are-dirty-jokes-funny/
www.dailywritingtips.com/why-are-dirty-jokes-funny/
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Oring's essays on the structure of humour are particularly insightful, for he is able to clarify the centrality to humour of "appropriate incongruity." It is very clear from Oring's work that we are wrong to think of jokes in terms of incongruity resolution since the incongruities are never truly resolved;
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www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5008189095
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The incongruity theory is especially powerful in explaining humor across different genres, including accidental humor and humor in nature. Some of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, ... This was one of the ideas expressed by Sigmund Freud in his 1905 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious.
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science.jrank.org/pages/9716/Humor-Incongruity-Theory.h...
science.jrank.org/pages/9716/Humor-Incongruity-Theory.html
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A look at the history of jokes reveals that the mix of ingredients shifts over time, with meanness and lewdness gradually giving way to intellectual pleasure in incongruity. That’s progress! Or is it? Chimpanzees, who separated from humans about 5m years ago, also laugh and grasp simple incongruity jokes.
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2008/10/10387-speculations/
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How does British humour fit into a funny old world? ... We are expected to argue in a logical way and to avoid ambiguity. Jokes revel in absurdity, incongruity and puns. Jokes are time off from the constraints on conversation. When there is very little constraint, there are very few jokes.
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www.open2.net/lennysbritain/britishjokes.html
www.open2.net/lennysbritain/britishjokes.html
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