A new book about humor under the Nazis gives some interesting insights into life in the Third Reich and breaks yet another taboo in Germany's treatment of its history.
Communism is the only political system to have created its own international brand of comedy. The standard interpretation is that communist jokes were a form of resistance. But they were also a safety valve for the regimes and jokes were told by the ruler
The German language provides fully functional clarity. English humour thrives on confusion. (The inexcusability of linguistic superiority...and this was in the Guardian)
"Nobody really understands why humor exists. What is the evolutionary function of humor, for example? That's the kind of query we're all interested in. What are the physiological manifestations? What happens to your brain? What happens to your senses? Wou
This paper presents a formal analysis of political cartoons using methods from classical semiotics, semiotic morphisms, and in particular the study of blends. This includes rigorously addressing questions such as why the humor in political cartoons has a
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