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The winning joke, which was later found to be based on a 1951 Goon Show sketch by Spike Milligan, was submitted by Gurpal Gosal of Manchester:
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says "OK, now what?
A joke is something spoken, written, or done with humorous intention. Jokes may have many different forms, e.g., a single word or a gesture (considered in a particular context), a question-answer, or a whole short story. The word "joke" has a number of synonyms, including wisecrack, gag, prank, quip, jape and jest. To achieve their end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punch line, i.e., an ending to make it humorous.
The rules of humour are analogous to those of poetry. These common rules are mainly timing, precision, synthesis, and rhythm. French philosopher Henri Bergson has said in an essay: "In every wit there is something of a poet." In this essay Bergson views the essence of humour as the encrustation of the mechanical upon the living. He used as an instance a book by an English humorist, in which an elderly woman who desired a reputation as a philanthropist provided "homes within easy hail of her mansion for the conversion of atheists who have been specially manufactured for her, so to speak, and for a number of honest folk who have been made into drunkards so that she may cure them of their failing, etc." This idea seems funny because a genuine impulse of charity as a living, vital impulse has become encrusted by a mechanical conception of how it should manifest itself.
To reach precision, the comedian must choose the words in order to provide a vivid, in-focus image, and to avoid being generic as to confuse the audience, and provide no laughter. To properly arrange the words in the sentence is also crucial to get precision.
The joke's content (meaning) is not what provokes the laugh, it just makes the salience of the joke and provokes a smile. What makes us laugh is the joke mechanism. Milton Berle demonstrated this with a classic theatre experiment in the 1950s: if during a series of jokes you insert phrases that are not jokes, but with the same rhythm, the audience laughs anyway[citation needed]. A classic is the ternary rhythm, with three beats: Introduction, premise, antithesis (with the antithesis being the punch line).
In regards to the Milton Berle experiment, they can be taken to demonstrate the concept of "breaking context" or "breaking the pattern". It is not necessarily the rhythm that caused the audience to laugh, but the disparity between the expectation of a "joke" and being instead given a non-sequitur "normal phrase." This normal phrase is, itself, unexpected, and a type of punchline—the anti-climax.
In the comic field plays the 'economy of ideative expenditure'; in other words excessive energy is wasted or action-essential energy is saved. The profound meaning of a comic gag or a comic joke is "I'm a child"; the comic deals with the clumsy body of the child.
Laurel and Hardy are a classic example. An individual laughs because he recognises the child that is in himself. In clowns stumbling is a childish tempo. In the comic, the visual gags may be translated into a joke. For example in Side Effects (By Destiny Denied story) by Woody Allen:
"My father used to wear loafers," she confessed. "Both on the same foot".
The typical comic technique is the disproportion.
In the wit field plays the "economy of censorship expenditure" (Freud calls it "the economy of psychic expenditure"); usually censorship prevents some 'dangerous ideas' from reaching the conscious mind, or helps us avoid saying everything that comes to mind; adversely, the wit circumvents the censorship and brings up those ideas. Different wit techniques allow one to express them in a funny way. The profound meaning behind a wit joke is "I have dangerous ideas". An example from Woody Allen:
I contemplated suicide again - this time by inhaling next to an insurance salesman.
Or, when a bagpipe player was asked "How do you play that thing?" his answer was "Well." Wit is a branch of rhetoric, and there are about 200 techniques (technically they are called tropes, a particular kind of figure of speech) that can be used to make jokes.
Irony can be seen as belonging to this field.
In the comedy field, humour induces an "economised expenditure of emotion" (Freud calls it "economy of affect" or "economy of sympathy". Freud produced this final part of his interpretation many years later, in a paper later supplemented to the book.). In other words, the joke erases an emotion that should be felt about an event, making us insensitive to it.e.g.: "yo momma" jokes. The profound meaning of the void feeling of a humour joke is "I'm a cynic". An example from Woody Allen:
Three times I've been mistaken for Robert Redford. Each time by a blind person.
This field of jokes is still a grey area, being mostly unexplored. Extensive use of this kind of humour can be found in the work of British satirist Chris Morris, like the sketches of the Jam television program.
Black humour and sarcasm belong to this field.
Jokes often depend on the humour of the unexpected, the mildly taboo (which can include the distasteful or socially improper), or playing off stereotypes and other cultural beliefs. Many jokes fit into more than one category.
Folklorists, in particular (but not exclusively) those who study the folklore of the United States, collect jokes into joke cycles. A cycle is a collection of jokes with a particular theme or a particular "script". (That is, it is a literature cycle.) Folklorists have identified several such cycles:
the Helen Keller Joke Cycle that comprises jokes about Helen Keller
Viola jokes
the NASA, Challenger, or Space Shuttle Joke Cycle that comprises jokes relating to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
the Chernobyl Joke Cycle that comprises jokes relating to the Chernobyl disaster
the Essex girl and the Stupid Irish joke cycles in the United Kingdom
the Dead Baby Joke Cycle
the Newfie Joke Cycle that comprises jokes made by Canadians about Newfoundlanders
the Little Willie Joke Cycle, and the Quadriplegic Joke Cycle
the Jew Joke Cycle and the Polack Joke Cycle
the Rastus and Liza Joke Cycle, which Dundes describes as "the most vicious and widespread white anti-Negro joke cycle"
the Jewish American Princess and Jewish American Mother joke cycles
The Wind-up doll joke cycle
The "Blonde joke" cycle.
Gruner discusses several "sick joke" cycles that occurred upon events surrounding Gary Hart, Natalie Wood, Vic Morrow, Jim Bakker, Richard Pryor, Princess Diana and Michael Jackson, noting how several jokes were recycled from one cycle to the next. For example: A joke about Vic Morrow ("We now know that Vic Morrow had dandruff: they found his head and shoulders in the bushes") was subsequently recycled about Admiral Mountbatten, and again applied to the crew of the Challenger space shuttle ("How do we know that Christa McAuliffe had dandruff? They found her head and shoulders on the beach.").
Berger asserts that "whenever there is a popular joke cycle, there generally is some widespread kind of social and cultural anxiety, lingering below the surface, that the joke cycle helps people deal with
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
Joke Jokes for Kids That are Really Funny in English In Hindi To Tell In Urdu Knock Knock Tagalog
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