Humor Studies: Can a landscape be funny?
In college I did a lot of research in humor studies. In this video I give an introduction to humor studies, and I read from Laughter by Henri Bergson.
Are there other topics in Humor Studies that you're interested in? Maybe I have a book about it.
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"The first point to which attention should be called is that the comic does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly human. A landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be laughable. You may laugh at an animal, but only because you have detected in it some human attitude or expression. You may laugh at a hat, but what you are making fun of, in this case, is not the piece of felt or straw, but the shape that men have given it,--the human caprice whose mould it has assumed."
-Bergson, Laughter, Chapter 1, Section I
Are there other topics in Humor Studies that you're interested in? Maybe I have a book about it.
Bibliography:
