Analyzing The Essay 'Made You Joke' By Marc Tyler Nobleman

Humor impedes good writing in some instances. If the people reading or watching the piece are sensitive, the writer runs the risk of offending the audience. It entirely depends on an individual's

“Theories of humor often suggest that humor requires a perceived violation, or something that disrupts people’s sense of how the world ought to be” (McGraw and Warren 2010).

Don't we all have something in common? Well that's just how comedians have an effect to communicate a universal truth with their audience. Whether if its confusion, sickness, frustration we all have something that we can relate to and that is how comedians use this effect because we can relate to that feeling or subject. That's how a comedian can communicate a universal truth to us by using humor.

Throughout time, humorists have been able to pull off a phenomenon, which allows for others to laugh about sensitive, stressful topics. With talent, humorists are able to captivate positive emotion from their audience and allow for society to see delicate issues in an unbiased view. Although humorists are commonly seen as people who only intend to entertain, humorists purposefully say things through their work that allow for hard issues to be spoken or illustrated.

Many people throughout history have still been able to say and do things that are difficult to say/do directly and they were not humorists. One such person was Rosa Parks. She made quite the statement when she went against the bus laws of her time and refused to get up for a "white" person. Humorists make jokes about a situation most don't feel comfortable to say.

Moreover, comedians/authors may change up their act when trying to appeal to a new audience and possibly while using their knowledge of the theories of humor to spice up their comedy. Furthermore, the article "Made You Laugh" contains a chart which lays out the usual comedic preferences for different ages (equivalent to the different audiences an author may try to appeal to). Essentially the chart says that young children favor slapstick comedy (physical humor), elementary school children prefer puns (I didn't "sea" that coming), teens prefer humor that their authorities may find rebellious ("you not my dad!"), and well-educated adults prefer satire (spending money for a toy for a child only to have it broken and bought again, it’s a cycle). An example of an author's writing(s) appealing

Laughter can be an instinctive expression of lively amusement although we don’t usually realise the offence of the joke we are laughing at. Tamara discusses modern satire and its position in humanity.

People always say that laughter alleviates tension. If this is the case, then it makes sense that the use of humor when discussing uncomfortable topics can make the conversation easier and more light-hearted. One of Mark Twain’s most frequently used devices in works such as “Advice to Youth”, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is satire, which can provide society a method to bond over uncomfortable topics, and facilitate the ability to sustain that bond through an easier way to create discussion.

Humor has a way of bringing happiness to someone in any situation, and because of this, I picked the subject “Philosophy of Humor”. I was curious as to what humor is, why it is what it is, and how it brings joy to life. This subject would be something interesting and easy for me to learn. Little did I know that any subject of philosophy is difficult to learn if you’re not a natural philosophical thinker. With that being said, I have found this subject, which I thought was going to be simple, way more difficult and complex than I ever

Rutgers University did an experiment that found that many different people found different comedies to their liking( Lynch, 2007). While this study found different people had a different sense of humour, demographics shared the same likings. This held true not only in the genders, men and women, but also between the different races watching the stand-up shows. This is because, “ humour is often linked to shared experience.”(Burnham, 2010). For people to find a joke funny they must first understand the background to it. Sometimes this is backed up during an anecdote, but other times it is focused on past knowledge many people might share. This is why people in the same demographic find the same things funny. Jokes understood in the Catholic community may not be found funny by the Mormon society as their beliefs differ slightly. Another strategy is to give the audience a common enemy. Normally this is done by the comedian to make himself an enemy so the audience can laugh at him. The ability to combine as a group gives people the common experience and puts them at ease to laugh. Other than audience the major part of a joke that a comedian must watch for is the offensiveness of their

For instance conventional jokes can include physical comedy. Famous comedian Kevin Hart for example does this in most of his standup acts. During his act when he was talking about his first time cursing he included physical humor twice. First when he got an attitude with his mom and said how she slapped him, he slapped himself to give effect to what he was saying. The second was when his mom gave him permission to curse at school but he took it to fare. So as Kevin Hart state “I got an ass whooping and my mom beat the shit out of me.” Now some people might not find this funny that a mother is beating her child. Although the crowd that night did, this is a well-known Kevin Hart piece.

(Hysterical laughter.) O.. Or.. This one! What is the only thing that can break a life prisoner from his bonds? Death. (Changes to a serious tone.) You see the punchline isn't always a joyful experience, but a joke doesn't have merit unless it contains truth. (Maniacal laughter) That's it! Don't you see? Life! Life is just one big joke! We run through life so eager to hear the punchline that we forget to enjoy the joke itself, and once we hear the punchline we want the joke to be told over and over again but we can't. (Clock ticking) Do you hear that?

Background & Audience Relevance: majority of people usually raise their hands as laughing is one of the best feelings, it brings us a sense of happiness and joy. We all know that friend who laughs and his laugh alone makes you laugh for no reason at all, it's contagious. So today for my speech I hope to persuade you about the importance of laugher in our life.

According to the Oxford dictionary “Humor,” is defined as: The quality of being amustic or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech, but what truly makes something funny? Comedy has been around for hundreds of years; as it is being examined four concrete theories have been developed to understand the idea of comedy: Superiority, Relief, incongruity, and Benign Violation theory.

Linguistic humor or language-based jokes can be classified as the most difficult type of humor to be translated into the target language. Raphaelson (1998) states that the challenge of translating this kind is not because of the nature of the humor or joke itself, but its relation to the language. on the same line, El-Yasin (1997) states that “linguistic jokes…are based on some incongruity resulting from an accedential feature in the design of the language…the build up of joke creates a context in which one interpretation of a linguistic form is reasonable and another is suppressed” (p.4). To support this statement, let’s see this example: