If I had to write humor it would be a awful dull world. Allan On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:06 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > Not that I am a connoisseur but in passing a few comedies have surprised me. > It usually seems to start with a few belly laughs, and people either get > keen to leadups or just get belly laughs to the end. The keen part is an art > progression escalating an emotional scale, but induces anxiety with delayed > gratification as musical compositions do though a diverse range. A good few > left me silent for a few moments after in awe and respect. Satire comes in > when you laugh while everyone is quiet and are silent or chuckle while they > laugh. That is a quixotic moment. > > The only character name I can recall enjoying picking apart and knowing > every move and trait a bit in advance was Collier in The 4400 series. With > understanding and compassion but harsh criticism on flaws (not plot but > character). Sorry, it wasn't a comedy, officially. I queried my memory banks > and that was the only result, I try not to query too often because it dumps > trash into my I/O and that takes six hours of debugging to settle out or > else it'll be shits and shakes next morn. It's okay to laugh. :p > > In regard to oneself, if you know better it is best not to laugh because the > rest is waiting. Objectively it is ridicule, but this exposes the observer > to vulnerability too. > - > p.s. methinks! > > > On 11/30/2012 10:04 PM, archytas wrote: >> >> Me too Molly - I wonder what the term 'I didn't know whether to laugh >> or cry' means? >> >> On 1 Dec, 00:06, Molly<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> would much rather be laughing. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, November 30, 2012 6:29:50 AM UTC-5, andrew vecsey wrote: >>> >>>> What In find interesting is how it is almost impossible to see the >>>> physical difference of someone laughing his head off and someone crying >>>> his >>>> heart out. Both are a result of a sudden unexpected disclosure of >>>> truth.. >>> >>> >>>> On Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:51:00 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> While there is only speculation about how humor developed in early >>>>> humans, we know that by the 6th century BCE the Greeks had >>>>> institutionalized it in the ritual known as comedy, and that it was >>>>> performed with a contrasting dramatic form known as tragedy. Both were >>>>> based on the violation of mental patterns and expectations, and in >>>>> both the world is a tangle of conflicting systems where humans live in >>>>> the shadow of failure, folly, and death. Like tragedy, comedy >>>>> represents life as full of tension, danger, and struggle, with success >>>>> or failure often depending on chance factors. Where they differ is in >>>>> the responses of the lead characters to life's incongruities. >>>>> Identifying with these characters, audiences at comedies and tragedies >>>>> have contrasting responses to events in the dramas. And because these >>>>> responses carry over to similar situations in life, comedy and tragedy >>>>> embody contrasting responses to the incongruities in life. >>> >>> >>>>> Tragedy valorizes serious, emotional engagement with life's problems, >>>>> even struggle to the death. Along with epic, it is part of the Western >>>>> heroic tradition that extols ideals, the willingness to fight for >>>>> them, and honor. The tragic ethos is linked to patriarchy and >>>>> militarism—many of its heroes are kings and conquerors—and it >>>>> valorizes what Conrad Hyers (1996) calls Warrior Virtues—blind >>>>> obedience, the willingness to kill or die on command, unquestioning >>>>> loyalty, single-mindedness, resoluteness of purpose, and pride. >>> >>> >>>>> Comedy, by contrast, embodies an anti-heroic, pragmatic attitude >>>>> toward life's incongruities. From Aristophanes' Lysistrata to Charlie >>>>> Chaplin's The Great Dictator to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, >>>>> comedy has mocked the irrationality of militarism and blind respect >>>>> for authority. Its own methods of handling conflict include deal- >>>>> making, trickery, getting an enemy drunk, and running away. As the >>>>> Irish saying goes, you're only a coward for a moment, but you're dead >>>>> for the rest of your life. In place of Warrior Virtues, it extols >>>>> critical thinking, cleverness, adaptability, and an appreciation of >>>>> physical pleasures like eating, drinking, and sex. >>> >>> >>>>> Much humour is cruel - but try and read cruelty in to 'Doctor, doctor, >>>>> I've lost an electron'. 'Are you sure'? 'Yes, I'm positive'. >>> >>> >>>>> What do we think humour is? >> >> > > -- > > >
-- ( ) |_D Allan Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. I am a Natural Airgunner - Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. --
