Another sneak peak!
According to Dr. Robert Provine, University of Maryland, only ten percent of laughter is from jokes. My challenge in putting this book together was to find various ways to reflect the other ninety percent of sources of laughter. Since we have a tendency to reduce humor to jokes, my commitment is to demonstrate that there is more to humor than jokes. In conversation, when I bring up the word “humor,” people often immediately think “jokes.” I distinguish between stories and jokes: stories connect with the rest of the content of a conversation; they don’t interrupt the flow. Jokes often interrupt a conversation. Jokes are often about cleverness and self-presentation.
There are numerous types of humor and various descriptive words for humor: absurdity, sarcasm, slapstick, puns and other forms of word play, satire, jokes, stories, pranks, teasing, silliness, corniness, wit, food art, comedy, jests, exaggeration, jocularity, incongruity, nonsense, riddles, juxtaposition, tickling, vulgarity, and ludicrousness.
Feel free to add to the list. Enjoy noticing the variety of humor!
It's that time of year again. There are some new Halloween riddles on the site below:
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/goldenj/HalloweenRiddles.pdf Hope you enjoy them and share with the kidders in your life.
Just one for now: What is a vampire’s favorite holiday? (It’s not Halloween.) Fangsgiving.
Why didn't the skeleton tango? They didn't have any BODY to dance with!
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