Philosophy of Comedy

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Posted by Maj S at Saturday, January 08, 2011
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Reference Material

  • Aristotle - Poetics
  • Bergson - Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
  • Cicero - de Oratore (Bk. II 235-289)
  • Hazlitt - Lectures on the Comic Writers (I. On Wit and Humor) (1819)
  • Humor (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • McGraw - Benign Violation Theory
  • Schiller - On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

Comedy Links

  • Comedy Central
  • Funny or Die
  • Improv
  • Monty Python Clips
  • SNL
  • Splitsider
  • The Onion
  • The Second City Network

Comedians

  • Caliendo
  • Carlin
  • Robin Williams
  • Seinfeld

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