Michael Kandel
@K_A_N_D_E_L
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the stand-up comedy video game actually looks pretty cool
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The 1995 audience laughs at Al Pacino because appreciating a great ass was considered absurd and even illegal until a 2013 Supreme Court ruling
Someone took a camcorder to a screening of HEAT in 1995 and recorded one of the first audience reactions to Al Pacino's now infamous "great ass" line š The kind of film history we must preserve
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this is the only way I would believe he's a changed man
Graham Platner shows off cover-up tattoo of Nazi symbol in interview with local Maine news outlet:
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ājump scareā āyouāll never guess who heās doing this withā yes I will. I always guess Malala. and I donāt find her scary
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Hydrate. Hustle. GO! CELSIUS HYDRATION - The ultimate hydration for every move. CELSIUS. LIVE. FIT. GO!
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"improvised nuances" what do people think acting is
In this The Dark Knight scene, Heath Ledger improvised nuances in his āWanna know how I got these scars?ā speech. Nolan let him shift tone and gestures to build tension. The original cut showed Gambleās death, but Nolan cut it, leaving it to imagination.
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my guy, you are the āsomething thatās kind of laughing a littleā the big and evil people are hiding behind
Theo Von: "It feels like some dark and powerful people know what's going on and they're not telling the rest of usā¦like there's something bigger and evil in the distance hiding behind something that's kind of laughing a little." https://t.co/7sh1Dux48O
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but the guy I'm quoting is right that most theories of humor are just elaborations on types of "inside"s and "joke"s--subsets of my theory, the one true theory of humor
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benign violation theory is strange because it doesn't really dissect the frog of why we laugh. it is more of a vague overton window that explains how jokes can be not funny enough, funny, or "too far"
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incongruity theory depends on a surprising commentary, relief theory depends on a shared context of what can and can't be said in polite society, and superiority theory depends on a context of in- and out-groups
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There are many theories of humor, but most of them are not universal because they focus on different constructions of "inside"s and "joke"s.
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we often think of things as "hack" not only because the commentary is unsurprising or uninteresting, but because the comedian borrows from pre-existing contexts like cultural stereotypes
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have known traits and behaviors, and we find it funny when they exhibit those traits and behaviors.
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we often think of jokes as a subversion of expectations (incongruity theory, loosely), but that's not always the case. audiences appreciate and even prefer the affirmation of expectations in well-constructed contexts. e.g., we love sitcom characters because they
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more specifically, humor is a commentary on a context. you create or reference a shared context, then comment on it. when a standup does an "I know what I look like" joke, the context is already understood--you have seen their face--and the commentary plays on your understanding
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all humor is an inside joke. you create the "inside," then you make the "joke"
endlessly amazes me that we have zero coherent models of Humor. this highly valued and often unmistakable quality of so many things ("funny") is just completely indescribable and everyone's fine with that. I imagine this must be what it was like walking around before germ theory
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I used AI to recreate my grandpa's dead wife and something amazing happened
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SAM ALTMAN SAYS OPENAI WILL ALLOW EROTICA FOR ADULT USERS - AXIOS
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he's going to hell for an amazing reason
TRUMP: "āI think I'm not maybe heaven bound ... I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
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me: time to read that classic novel first sentence of the introduction: When the reader first encounters the novel's devastating conclusion, where our hero is betrayed by his best friend, who is also revealed to be the killer, surely she is shocked;
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