--- In [email protected], anonymousff2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pardon me, I haven't read every post of this thread, but I think I > get the general gist of it. And would like to contribute my two > cents: > > There's that famous talk between Maharishi and the comedian Andy > Kaufman recorded at the first Mallorca TTC. In that conversation, M > suggests that comedy is only funny because it presents > something "odd" in the context of some "evenness," where the > evenness has to do with the good feeling that exists between the > comedian and the audience, and the oddness has to do with an > unexpected way of looking at something. Andy kept on wanting M to > say that the oddness alone was funny, but M kept saying that the > oddness alone was just odd, not funny. Of course Andy wanted M to > say that the oddness alone was funny, because that was what he > wanted to do as a comedian, weird the audience out by leaving them > out of the joke for as long as possible. But people who saw Andy > perform live tell me that they only enjoyed the joke when they > realized that they had been had and that, in the context, it was Ok > to have been had, and so it was funny - in other words, when > the "evenness" rushed in.
I was at that lecture. Another related theme was that of contrast. The contrast between odd and even, between what is expected and the unexpected. Between boundaries and somethng beyond boundaries. In that contrast, the Gap is found. In the Gap, we laugh. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
