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He has a great blog!<... (Below threshold)1. Posted by -S- | December 5, 2005 8:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
He has a great blog!
But, I disagree with this point he makes over there:
"All humor is about people. You can’t make humor about concepts or objects."
I agree that all humor is about people, but, it is possible to make humor about concepts or objects. It's done all the time.
1. Posted by -S- | December 5, 2005 8:07 AM |
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2. Posted by Sean Gleeson | December 5, 2005 8:59 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The object says, "We don't get many concepts in here."
The concept replies, "At these prices, I can't say I'm surprised."
I guess Adams was right.
2. Posted by Sean Gleeson | December 5, 2005 8:59 AM |
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3. Posted by -S- | December 5, 2005 9:17 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sean Gleeson (and Adams): it's ALL about concept and some of it's about object. Humor is based in and of concept...all the rest is subject and action.
3. Posted by -S- | December 5, 2005 9:17 AM |
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4. Posted by Sean Gleeson | December 5, 2005 9:30 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I wuz jest kiddin. Sorry. I agree with you, Suzy.
4. Posted by Sean Gleeson | December 5, 2005 9:30 AM |
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5. Posted by ed | December 5, 2005 9:58 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hmmmm.
But to do so successfully you have to humanize these objects and concepts so that they represent people.
A computer by itself isn't funny. A computer that acts like a person, could be.
So in this I think I agree with Scott Adams.
5. Posted by ed | December 5, 2005 9:58 AM |
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6. Posted by HelenW | December 5, 2005 11:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sorry Jay, but Scott is so far off the mark, his intent is surely misdirection.
There are exactly two reasons why we value comics or any other type of entertainment content--comedy and tragedy. Or as my editors say: Write stuff that is amusing or informative. Comedy helps us forget our troubles, and tragedy teaches us how to avoid those troubles in the first place.
Both these forms of entertainment disrupt our normal ways of thinking. Comedy is about those instances of disruption that allow us a soft landing.
6. Posted by HelenW | December 5, 2005 11:57 AM |
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7. Posted by SilverBubble | December 5, 2005 5:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Now I'm reading Pearls Before Swine, and I can't stop. Thank you, Wizbang, for providing even more time-wasting material for me to indulge in.
7. Posted by SilverBubble | December 5, 2005 5:05 PM |
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8. Posted by Random Yak | December 5, 2005 8:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Pearls before swine rocks.
I, too, never managed to come up with the 2 of 6 rule, but it does seem to make sense. Do I get an automatic "animals" point for being a yak? Or is it subtracted (again automatically) because yaks are insufficiently cute?
I'm guessing it's that last part.
8. Posted by Random Yak | December 5, 2005 8:41 PM |
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9. Posted by FIAR | December 5, 2005 8:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Interesting hypothesis he has there. I never actually anylyzed what makes 'funny' funny much. Much like I tend to enjoy music or other forms of art without analyzing them. It's interesting that he actually consciously puts these elements together.
9. Posted by FIAR | December 5, 2005 8:45 PM |
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10. Posted by -S- | December 6, 2005 12:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I agree, ed, that a human element is necessary for the rest of us humans to interpret anything as humorsome.
The point I made earlier and still affirm here is that concept is an integral aspect to humor, not a foreign element. Without concept, and using your computer reference, you'd have a human staring at (or typing on, whatever) a computer.
Big whoop.
No concept involved, nothing of humor, nothing communicated beyond "I'm typing here."
10. Posted by -S- | December 6, 2005 12:03 PM |
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