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It is to point to wrong-kind reasons relative to the standards governing funniness. Our point, again, is that the standards governing funniness are not directly sensitive to goodness and badness simpliciter.
The findings show there are two types of funniness predictors: form predictors and semantic predictors.
The Third Policeman and also what I've read of At Swim-Two-Birds, his better known novel showcases O'Brien's funniness in a stubbornly postcolonial way that I can deeply relate to, exploding as he does pedantism and good manners at every turn with his irreverent Irish wit.
Telling a story and laughing so hard at my own funniness that nobody can understand what I am saying, so only I get the joke.
the 'voices' on the boat seem to me to make a sequence unequalled in their combined funniness and macabre horror" (355).
We performed a 2 x 3 (Resiliency: low or high by Cartoon humor: TOM, SEM, INC) mixed ANOVA with the Cartoon as the within-subjects factor to analyze funniness ratings.
"Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness." Consider the Lobster.
However, the July 16 "Hagar the Horrible" cartoon crossed a line related to violence toward women in particular and the presumed funniness of beheadings by barbarians.
We've been together for 47 years now: we're very well-matched, a nice combination of seriousness and funniness. She's not as funny as I am, no, but she's got a lot going for her.' - it the way ' Mary and John's son Mike is another familiar face, having made a name for himself as a BBC news reporter.
He elaborated, I have been working alternately as assistant director-making sure that established qualities and 'funniness' of episodes I work on are met-and as a character layout artist, equivalent to an animator, on 20th Century Fox shows such as 'King of the Hill,' 'Futurama,' and 'The Simpsons.'
On the other extreme social intuitionism model would explain the process of joke-getting experience as some sort of gut-level reaction producing generic effect of funniness, while only later one would confabulate about relevant features that would support this initial reaction, pointing out information relevant for the joke.
She had the funniness and physicality required for the part.
It is possible that the time I started to have second thoughts about the funniness of the episode was a few years later, when Rolling Stone published an excerpt from Joan Baez's autobiography.