MUST READ: About memebombs

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Is it a coincidence that a lot of comedians are of jewish descent? I think not.

The funny ones, as it occurs to me.  Perhaps it has to do with institutional guilt leading to black humor.

Lenny Bruce, the three stooges, Louis Black, etc.

[Fuquad]

Is there anything in this thread worth reading?

^
certainly not this post

great.  But the question was "is there anything in this thread worth reading?"

[The Johnny]

Also humour has to be layed out within a common ideological framework, otherwise its not funny.

<seraches the interwebs for lame burgious WASP oriented joke>

How do you know when you're in a gay church?
Only half the congregation kneels to pray!

<sarcasm> Ha ha </sarcasm>

Because the gays are NON GOD FEARING BLOWJOBBERS !!11!1!!!

Anyways.

[Cramulus]

Is there anything in this thread worth reading?

^
certainly not this post

great.  But the question was "is there anything in this thread worth reading?"

well there is actually a discussion about memetics going on if you care to engage in it

I guess it's more fun to derail everything though

[rong]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour_in_Freud

In his view, jokes happen when the conscious allows forbidden thoughts which society suppresses.The superego allows the ego to generate humor.[1] A benevolent superego allows a light and comforting type of humor while a harsh superego creates a biting and sarcastic type of humor.[3] A very harsh superego suppresses humor all together.[4][2][3] Freud's humor theory was based on the dynamic among id, ego and superego.[2] The commanding superego will impede the ego to continue its pleasure-seeking from the id, or to momentarily adapt itself to the demands of reality.[2] Moreover Freud (1960)[3] also contributes to the development of the relief theory of laughter in which he proposed that emotional energy is released by humor sense.

Later Freud re-turned his attention to humor noting that not everyone is capable of formulating humor.

thanks for humoring me and allowing me to introduce humor here - the part i "bolded" is why i think it's important for memebombs to be funny.  i think.

i think a conclusion is where i stopped thinking.  i think.   hurrr  durrrr

sorry, got up wayyy to early today - just had to take teh motorcycle for a ride before work.

oh yeah, so i think maybe the real trick is to take thoughts or ideas that society does not suppress and tweak them into a thought or idea that society does suppress.  sort of like saying, "hey - you've heard of -1, right?"  "oh yeah, sure sure, old hat, old hat, man" "well, you know how to take square roots, right?"  "oh yeah, sure sure, square roots, child's play" - "really, well then, what's the square root of -1?" "oh, well, that's uhh - gee, i'm not sure, hahaha - i never thought of that before. i imagine it has to be something. . . hehe. i'll uh . . . i'll have to get back to you on that one.  hehe"

I have not read this book.

BUT i have observed a certain correlation between people that make a lot of jokes and their personality. These tend to be people that like the attention or are a bit on the neurotic side.

Is it a coincidence that a lot of comedians are of jewish descent? I think not.

rong:  is a compulsive joke teller.  i don't even care if they're funny.  my friends think there's something wrong with me when i don't make the obvious joke.  i think it's some type of tourrette's syndrome.

[Iason Ouabache]

Is it a coincidence that a lot of comedians are of jewish descent? I think not.

The funny ones, as it occurs to me.  Perhaps it has to do with institutional guilt leading to black humor.

Lenny Bruce, the three stooges, Louis Black, etc.

Sounds about right. There are a large number of Catholic/former Catholic comics too. I guess the lesson to learn is that if you guilt your kids early and often they will either become hilariously funny or a religious basketcase.

[bugmenоt]

Interesting video on memes:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2009/26c3-3570-en-weaponizing_cultural_viruses.html

[Payne]

Is it a coincidence that a lot of comedians are of jewish descent? I think not.

The funny ones, as it occurs to me.  Perhaps it has to do with institutional guilt leading to black humor.

Lenny Bruce, the three stooges, Louis Black, etc.

Sounds about right. There are a large number of Catholic/former Catholic comics too. I guess the lesson to learn is that if you guilt your kids early and often they will either become hilariously funny or a religious basketcase.

A Religious Basketcase is funny too.

Also, isn't there a very high rate of professional comedians suffering from various other forms of mental illness such as clinical or bi-polar depression? I haven't read any text about this, but it strikes me here that a question for this would be: Do they have these mental illnesses because of the work they do, or is both comedy and depression 'caused' (for want of a better word) by something deeper such as a deeply ingrained, possibly cultural, guilt?

It strikes me that if one could find out how the act comedy affects and interacts the mind the comedian in such an obvious ('testable', 'treatable') way, we could have yet another way of creating gear shifting memebombs.