5 Circuits Of Humour

[hooplala]

1- Slapstick Humour
The first circuit of humour shown by the upright hairless apes was Slapstick Humour. One ape was walking toward a pond of muddy water, got their foot caught by a root, and tripped, face first into the slop. After a moment of taking the scene in, all the other upright hairless apes began hee-hawing without knowing why. For some reason the pain and misfortune of the fallen ape stirred something new in the upright hairless apes. It made them feel good.

2-Toilet Humour
The second circuit of humour shown by the upright hairless apes was of Toilet Humour. The largest ape was bullying the smaller apes around, grunting orders and gesticulating wildly to make his point. As he picked up the smallest ape, and tossed him in the direction he wanted him to move, the smallest ape let out a large, long, fart of defiance. Another pause, and then the apes began to hee-haw again. The large ape turned in anger and was going to attack the smaller ape when he was struck in the face with a large turd. The hee-hawing grew louder, and out of shame the large ape wandered away for good.

3-Satirical Humour
The third circuit of humour appeared just before speech developed. A new large ape had been bullying the smaller apes around, and behind his back a tall ape was mimicking the large ape's distinctive facial movements and posture. He grunted, and scratched, and pouted and mugged mercilessly. It took the other apes a few moments to realize what the tall ape was attempting to portray, but once it sunk through, the hee-hawing began anew. The first form of political humour.

4-Intellectual Humour
The final circuit developed when speech became available. The first conversations were dry and humourless, amounting to little more than "Animal, there." or "Me hungry" or the always popular "Me So Horny", but the fourth circuit popped into circulation with the invention of the first limerick, which went like this: "There once was a girl named Zee, who was raped by that ape up the tree. The result was most horrid, all ass and no forehead, three balls and an ill-groomed goatee". This was the first form of verbal humour, but also -possibly- the first philosophical musings of humanity's origins. This was a large step beyond stubbing toes, farts, and imitations, this was the beginning of the critique on society that humour has become.

5-Lulz
A strange circuit of humour has recently been identified, known mysteriously as "lulz".  This mystical form of humour resists definition, as Potter Stewart once famously said, "I know the lulz when I see it". 

[gnimbley]

Yeah, pretty good. I like it. But, ah, how do you account for Al Gore?

[Iron Sulfide]

any chance on doing the latter four ciruits?

[hooplala]

any chance on doing the latter four ciruits?

I've been thinking about that, but so far I haven't been able to come up with anything that seems to apply . . . if anyone else comes up with anything, feel free to add . . .

[DJRubberducky]

Is "joking about something because otherwise you're going to scream" a facet of intellectual humour, or of satirical humour, or another circuit entirely?

[Iron Sulfide]

i especially like how 'language' seems to pop in on the third circuit.

hmm

let me think about the 5-8 circuits and get back to you.

for posterity's sake:

1. Slapstick = Oral Biosurvival...Food, mommy, etc...

2. Toilet Humor = Anal Territorial...Dominance/Submission, daddy, etc...

3. Satire = Semantic Cicuit, Language, Patterns, 'Self' emerges.

4. Intellectual = SocioSexual Circuit, 'Parent' stage or "Maturity", social
heirachy, sex/romantic relations, etc...

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[hooplala]

Is "joking about something because otherwise you're going to scream" a facet of intellectual humour, or of satirical humour, or another circuit entirely?

I would say it is a little bit of both . . . I think people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin could be good examples of that type of joke . . . and I would classify both of them as both 3rd and 4th circuit humour.  Actually, both have quite a bit of 2nd circuit too.

[hooplala]

let me think about the 5-8 circuits and get back to you.

Can't wait!

[Iron Sulfide]

actually, i think carlin somewhat transcends the circuit map, hail eris!

proof that the map either A) is most accurate, and he's a physical master,
or B) that the map is indeed only a map...

or some other option, even.

in his religion joke "Invisible man in the sky" he hits on
oral, anal, semantic and socio-sexual themes, and brings it all
back at the end of the joke with a quote that touches both
the second circuit and the third:

"...and if you do one of those ten things, he'll lock you in a room
called Hell for aALL eternity. . .but he loves you! and he wants your money!"

[hooplala]

actually, i think carlin somewhat transcends the circuit map, hail eris!

proof that the map either A) is most accurate, and he's a physical master,
or B) that the map is indeed only a map...

or some other option, even.

in his religion joke "Invisible man in the sky" he hits on
oral, anal, semantic and socio-sexual themes, and brings it all
back at the end of the joke with a quote that touches both
the second circuit and the third:

"...and if you do one of those ten things, he'll lock you in a room
called Hell for aALL eternity. . .but he loves you! and he wants your money!"

Carlin is the best . . . now that I read that I think I must have channelled that routine a bit when I was writing the Jehovah bit in my 4th Snub.

[Clichés_Dyed_4_My_Sins]

Yeah, pretty good. I like it. But, ah, how do you account for Al Gore?

There is no relativity between Al Gore and humor. And if he didn't luck out and get that one extra chemical added to his DNA chain, he wouldn't be able to crack a proper smile.


Wait a minute....

[Iron Sulfide]

it's excessively hard to come up with stuff for the following
(i.e. i haven't thought much bout it...):

5. Neurosomatic, i.e. Ecstasy through tantra, or through chastity while
fasting and remaining abstainent.

Sarcastic Humor
everything that is legitamately funny is still funny, but now those things
especially unfunny are made far more hilarious by the fact that the person
that said it/wrote it/etched it on a cave wall WAS NOT FUNNY, and that
truely is funny.

this circuit was formed, most likely, no more than 100 thousand years ago.
like, when we had already stopped living in trees, and were just starting
to come out of caves and plant stuff. a slightly evolved mokey was once
quotes as grunting: "oh, i'm sure that rock would be good. wanker."

6. Neuro Genetic/Neuro Electric, i.e. the 'source' or at least 'archive' that
we draw 'archetypes' from, i.e. God/Goddess manifestations.

Religious Humor

Primitive Domesticated Apes were now forming factions, disagreeing over
which God to explicate the inexplicable. the 'healer-shaman' of one pack
would frequently, in this stage, Mock the god or goddess of another tribe,
by dressing up as that god/goddess much in a jester sense.

religious humor is also called mockery.

7. Meta Programming, i.e. frontal lobe, infinite regress in the mind, fractal.
i.e. a brain studying it's brain, counting the turtles we're stacked on top
of (turtles, all the way down..)

Self Referencial Humor

These are Jokes, about Jokes. first told in the earliest stages of actual
civilization. ancient sumer, babylon, ancient india, ancient china. etc.
these include puns, play on words, jokes about telling jokes, jokes with
recursive data structure (*Slap* don't interrupt me!) and other silly
things most people still consider vulgar.

the first pun ever told that is still translatable was given by Pythagoras:
"I can't carry any more digits! My arms hurt too much!"

8. Non-Local QUantum Circuit, i.e. OOBE's near death experience, esp,
precognition, telepathy, etc numbo jumbo.

does not exist. this simply isn't funny.

[LMNO]

Oh, you dropped the ball.

The 8th circuit of humor must be the realization that all of creation and existence is a joke, that everything is funny.




See the way buddah smiles?  That's the 8th circuit of humor.

[Iron Sulfide]

no, that's a profaning of the 8th circuit humor

[LMNO]

No, it's not.

It's the only Truth that shall be known.



LMNO
-knows these things.