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Woods, however, prefers the Prague dry-cleaner joke to Damrosch’s—his is funnier, he writes in an e-mail, because “it is not hypothetical, like the joke you ask me to comment on from Leo Damrosch...
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...
...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...
...C.R.A.S.H.-B’s indoor rowing competition, which displays headlines such as “I Was Bigfoot’s Erg Slave” and “Puce is the Hot Winter Color,” you might have thought that the event was a joke. But while the program emphasizes the event’s fun spirit, don’t let it fool you: the competition is fierce and attracts the best rowers in the world...
Could this be a realistic film about finding love in an adverse environment and overcoming the odds? Eventually you’ll see (and at this point you should be properly hammered) that the film’s message about love is actually a fantastical joke once its ending arrives and drenches the previous two hours of drivel with an appropriate escape from reality. As Stiles is auditioning for Julliard, she stops mid-way, unable to finish, but wait—hot boyfriend enters the scene, provides encouragement, and she moves directly into a hip-hop ballet fusion piece that...