Word: humority
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English department heavyweights James Wood and Leo Damrosch are recognized pros at analyzing other people’s humor. But do they have any comedic muscle of their...
Damrosch, whose course Wit and Humor tries to explain what makes a good joke funny, is a little bit more established in the department than his newly arrived colleague, Wood, author of The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel. But that didn’t stop either one from agreeing to an FM-orchestrated humor smackdown...
...find out whether all the humor they’ve studied has rubbed off, we asked them to hit us with their best jokes. Then we asked them to analyze each other’s efforts...
...Damrosch contends that what makes his joke amusing is the physics student’s ability to laugh at himself. Self-demeaning humor, says Damrosch, is “a way of diffusing the sense that you take yourself too seriously,” a fact he hopes most Harvard students understand...
Since its popular off-Broadway run in 1997, Eve Ensler’s poignantly tragic and humor-tinged series of monologues on female sexuality has become a mainstay on college campuses, and Harvard is no exception. Cohen claims her time on the Cantabrigian campus forced her to take notice of works like VM. Says Cohen, “Being at Harvard has made me think much more about issues about issues of gender...