Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Social Analysis 10, sexist jokes have a different effect; they serve to discourage women from the field of economics. In his lecture of October 2, Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 told a joke about the problems of American capitalism as symbolized by a stereotypical nuclear family...
Gloria K. Park '91, curious about the new club, attended the meeting to find out more about it. "At first I thought it was a Lampoon joke or something, but I really wanted to see who would show...
...could be embarrassed by this wonderful kid? In the opening episode Corky enters a "mainstream" high school for the first time. By the second episode he is running for class president. True, the campaign is launched as a joke by cruel classmates, but Corky turns it into a rousing, and rather implausible, plea for the handicapped. "We have a life, we have dreams, we have hopes," runs his big speech at a school assembly. "We laugh and cry, just like you. All we want is a chance to be your friend." Result: a standing ovation and a narrow loss...