Humor Critical Response Essay.
Building on your “My Sense of Humor”
personal short response, this essay invites
you to explore the foundational theories of why we laugh and put them in conversation with your own sense of humor. Can one’s sense of humor be distilled into a single theory? Are there kinds of humor/things we laugh at that are unexplained by the popular humor theories? Do you think our sense of humor reveals something deeper about who we are? Write a 1750-2500-word essay in which you propose your own new theory of humor. Contemplate how theories found in this chapter relate to each other and synthesize those pertinent to your own ideas about what takes place when we laugh. Support your humor theory with examples of jokes, TV shows/movies, Comic routines texts, and real-life humorous situations. Please include at least one theory of humor from our readings.
Please make sure to do the following:
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