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Observational humor is a generally low-key style of comedy in which the performers base their material on the underlying humor in everyday life. It usually isn't angry or satirical, though some performers (most notably George Carlin) do cross those lines by contextualizing their observations of run-of-the-mill human behavior as symptoms of ...
Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life. It is one of the main types of humor in stand-up comedy. In an observational comedy act, the comedian makes an observation about something which is common enough to be familiar to their audience, but not commonly discussed.
Oct 12, 2008 · Read this article. Though music is rife with humor, musical humor as a single subject has rarely been discussed in analytical and theoretical terms. This paper discusses the nature and current theories of humor, comparing them to music in broad terms. Specific parallels between music and humor are discussed before delving into musical humor itself.
- Peter Kay Mm and Ba
- 2006
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Jun 27, 2016 · A means of classifying humor in music through a taxonomy has, until now, not been attempted. Examples from musical works by composers ranging from C. P. E. Bach to Shostakovich provide a means to establish a taxonomy of humor in music.
- Asbjørn Øfsthus Eriksen
- 2016
Nov 9, 2018 · If we wish to be serious about humor, though, we can observe that our examples of musical humor seem to fit Leonard Feinberg's "four basic techniques of humor: incongruity, surprise, pretense, and catering to the superiority of the audience."
Dec 21, 2020 · A humor theory that requires these three ingredients therefore predicts high intraindividual, interindividual, and intercultural variability in humor responses to the same stimulus, which is exactly what is observed in the world (see Table 3).
Abstract. This chapter reviews approaches to the empirical documentation of music as found in comparative musicology, folklore studies, and through the fifty-year history of ethnomusicology. Means of gathering and measuring research data are shown to be linked to available technology as well as to prevailing intellectual paradigms.
