http://westallen.typepad.com/brains_... , pstp ref humor 10 -29 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog... , 2 -23 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Limerick (poetry) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 11 -21 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Prank humor: mechanics of , cautionary tales ? Jerks that like pranks? Aprils Fools ... [[ 4 -2 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

4 -1 Late Night TV comedy < consumption patterns > [ working the swing shift - shift work ({ mill towns back in the industrial era pre 2000 , bars and restaurants ( altered and not states ) out of sync with the rest of the world stories ... ( Anthony Bourdain type style ... ) 4 -2 https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/transgr... One of the more common experiences of the film viewer is that of finding something on the screen funny or humorous. Some of this amusement will be at what I will call transgressive actions, that is, at the kind of events that would, in many other, easily imaginable instances, appropriately bring about very different kinds of responses. This phenomenon is prima facie perplexing, since our default response to wrongdoing does not (nor should it) include amusement. The present paper explores one kind of transgressive comedy – that which invites viewers to laugh with a perpetrator of wrongdoing. My positive claim, developed in Sections 4-6, will be that our favoritism towards certain persons or characters plays a role in some examples of humor at wrongdoings; in particular, I will suggest that it plays a central role in our amusement at the events in the 1940 Howard Hawks film His Girl Friday. Edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... more examples ? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is or not? [[[ innocent wrongdoings ( small small w ) of childhood or of a different time and place {{ racial gender ... humor }} source? < funny? Naughty http://www.thefreedictionary.com/naughty for the fun of it , heck of it ? - Thomas Page

Late Night - Comedy Central - SNL ... [ standup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... how to , skit, improv ? [[ Writing ... [[[ sort 5 -4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

9 -29 Shtick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Toastmasters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... "Table topics" is an extemporaneous speaking exercise where the speaker speaks "off the cuff"; that is, the speaker responds to a question or topic that is not known beforehand. The Table Topics Master presents the topic, calls on an individual, and then that individual has 1 to 2 minutes to respond. [ There are sometimes other roles in the program, depending on the club. For example, there may be an Invocator who gives an invocation or inspirational opener; a Humor Master, Jokemaster, or Raconteur who tells a funny story or jokes; - Thomas Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Acting is seen as altering most of the 14 dimensions of changed subjective experience which characterize ASCs according to Farthing, namely: attention, perception, imagery and fantasy, inner speech, memory, higher-level thought processes, meaning or significance of experiences, time experience, emotional feeling and expression, level of arousal, self-control, suggestibility, body image, and sense of personal identity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

12 -6 Robin Williams Improv ^ 1 -3 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... http://www.businessinsider.com/a-compl... - Thomas Page

asc ] [ 2 -3 sort Role, Rolodexer contextual inertia , contextualizer shifter , intention torque amplifier, volitional dual clutch, rectitudinal director , justification compensator, flux capacitor dynodrive , gumption hyper charger ... 2 -3 A role (also rôle or social role) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is a set of connected behaviours, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualised by people in a social situation. It is an expected or free or continuously changing behaviour and may have a given individual social status or social position. It is vital to both functionalist and interactionist understandings of society. Social role posits the following about social behaviour: The division of labour in society takes the form of the interaction among heterogeneous specialised positions, we call roles. Social roles included appropriate and permitted forms of behaviour, guided by social norms, which are commonly known and hence determine the expectations for appropriate behaviour in these roles. Roles are occupied by individuals, who are called actors. When individuals approve of a social role (i.e., they consider the role legitimate and constructive), they will incur costs to conform to role norms, and will also incur costs to punish those who violate role norms. Changed conditions can render a social role outdated or illegitimate, in which case social pressures are likely to lead to role change. The anticipation of rewards and punishments, as well as the satisfaction of behaving prosocially, account for why agents conform to role requirements. The notion of the role is examined in the social sciences, more specifically economics, sociology and organisation theory. - Thomas Page

12 -8 Acting https://friendfeed.com/citizen... 1 -4 Gene_Wilder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy http://youtu.be/Z1PCtIaM_GQ - Thomas Page

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sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... artistic_depictions_of_Beowulf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Dragonslayers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Medieval_hunting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... History_of_hunting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Cain_and_Abel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Kane [ Kwai Chang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

comedies tragedies drama { Greek geeks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ Theatre_of_ancient_Greece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ sort http://youtu.be/RK-dbLiaGvU [[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

2 -14 Comedy#Historical_forms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Irony#Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

http://friendfeed.com/citizen... Life is just a bowl of cherries Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious Life is just a bowl of cherries So live and laugh at it all - Thomas Page

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Self-awareness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Theatre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Rom Com Romantic comedy films http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... are a certain genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies and stoner comedies. - Thomas Page