Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This vast discrepancy reveals that humor that is funny in one context can be offensive in another. A small audience with shared experiences and expectations takes Mason's act to be a parody of old-time American Judaism. A racially-charged electorate, on the other hand, isn't ready to joke about racial or ethnic stereotypes...
Mason's case is indicative of a larger truth. The context of humor--and not the intent of the comedian or some inherent quality of the joke--primarily determines what is funny and what is inappropriate...
...HUMOR, like everything else, has its time and its place. Some jokes--like Mason's--may have no place at all. And while most humor puts someone or something down, I try to stick to targets who are not subject to hateful denigration. (Yale, the QRR, Harvard administrators and tenured economists all fall into this category...
...Braden joins in. Laughter, in fact, is an essential part of the curriculum at the tennis college, where every year several thousand adults take three-to- five-day courses that cost $100 daily. It erupts regularly from the classroom during Braden's unique lectures, which combine show biz, science, humor and psychology. It rings out on the 17 courts and the 18 teaching lanes equipped with ball machines -- and in the four video rooms, where students guffaw as they view tapes of their own just completed drills. Even the pro shop is involved. It carriesT shirts bearing the slogan LAUGH...
...Using humor, psychology and physics, the author and coach extraordinaire shows nonstars easy ways to improve their performance on tennis courts and ski slopes...