Tuesday 15 April 2008

Bad Comedian


Ethnic jokes are mainly about stupidity inevitably flourish in modern societies, and technical innovation. fr stupidity which could be seen as failure and the downfall of oneself and others alive. ( Christie Davis, ethnic humor around the world, 1990). Ethnic jokes are everywhere an example of an ethnic joke could be "how do you break a Walsall blokes finger?..... Punch them in the face. this joke was used as a example in the lecture, many people did not find this one funny or any other 'Ethnic' jokes which where used for examples funny which comes to show that ethnic jokes are old fashioned, or some could argue many people have a different kind of humour some may find that joke funny some may not. Ethnic jokes are not sociably accepted, many people consider not to tell ethnic jokes. However, jokes have no opinions, once we accept that a joke is a structured dialogue with itself, that it cannot, by its nature be an expression of opinion.
The incongruity theory suggests that humour is produced by the experience of a felt incongruity between what we know or expect to be the case. Most people may argue that one who takes jokes seriously do not have a sense of humor, one might argue that what you laugh at, the structure of the joke, it could undermine one about what they know about the world. It is possible for people to perceive that people view humor "through the filter of their own prejudices each seeing in (it)

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