Humor in sentence

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So I'm a humor analyst, you would say.

Now E.B. White said, analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog.

He's the critic of humor, and really I'm forced to be in that position, when I'm at The New Yorker, and that's the danger that I will become this guy.

Now, we do reject, many, many, many cartoons, so many that there are many books called "The Rejection Collection." "The Rejection Collection" is not quite New Yorker kind of humor.

See, that's probably not going to be New Yorker humor.

So I'll give you some examples of rejection collection humor.

Now, in fact, within a context of this book, which says, "Cartoons you never saw and never will see in The New Yorker," this humor is perfect.

There's a concept about humor about it being a benign violation.

Now I'm going to show you cartoons The New Yorker did right after 9/11, a very, very sensitive area when humor could be used.

That was a black hole for humor, and correctly so.

The humor reflects back on us.

The easiest thing to do with humor, and it's perfectly legitimate, is a friend makes fun of an enemy.

It's called dispositional humor.

It's 95 percent of the humor.

It's not our humor.

Humor does need a target.

The humor is self-reflective and makes us think about our assumptions.

The New Yorker demands some cognitive work on your part, and what it demands is what Arthur Koestler, who wrote "The Act of Creation" about the relationship between humor, art and science, is what's called bisociation.

Test." (Laughter) The other thing The New Yorker plays around with is incongruity, and incongruity, I've shown you, is sort of the basis of humor.

But the way incongruity works is, observational humor is humor within the realm of reality.

It's humor within the realm of reality.

But for us, and for me, helping design the humor, it doesn't make any sense to compare one to the other.

That to be able to talk about content, to break apart what you normally expect, to use humor and surprise, elegance and humanity in your work was really important to us.

Hopefully, a dialog between adults and children will happen on many different levels, and hopefully different kinds of humor will evolve.

So I was looking at qualitative data, so what was the humor, the tone, the voice, the communication style that these women shared in common?

He apparently had a sense of humor.

They agreed to humor him.

I refer specifically to a kind of humor that is unfortunately underused.

So Art Buchwald left his legacy of humor with a video that appeared soon after he died, saying, "Hi!

So at first they thought they were triggering some kind of laugh reflex, but no, they quickly realized they had found the points in her neocortex that detect humor, and she just found everything hilarious whenever they stimulated these points.

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