The Humor
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Note → Anyone freely choosing to engage in the perception and/or
generation of humor (as we've defined it) IS having Fun ← Note
This section has selected recent cartoons and written humor publications to illustrate how the humorist/cartoonist uses humor to "poke fun" at either a specific situation, or often, uses unexpected irony to comment on how non-correct our own embraced indoctrinations are.Written Humor - Unexpected Truths (even when you can see it coming):
Cartoons and humor publications take on thousands of differing topics annually. The best ones (most widely read and appreciated) address these topics from a humorous perspective.
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Cartoon Humor, getting to Truths, unexpectedly:
- The Onion - check out their origins and history [here].
- "I respectfully decline to answer the question and hereby invoke my Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination." - Michael Flynn
- "Oh, don't act so surprised. You knew this would come out eventually." - Harvey Weinstein, on his decision to greenlight The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature
- "And you're positive they won't notice I'm wearing a wire?" - Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Carter Page, Donald Trump Jr., George Papadopoulos, Rex Tillerson, Reince Priebus, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Barron Trump
- Example articles, essays, and commentary:
- Other examples of written humor will be added with later revisions.
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. Check out the Website
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
- Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
- For Scott Adams' expert examination of how "wrongness" or the assertion of "the absurd" can be used to influence when and what we may consider credible, [click here].
- Examples:
2018 January 14
2017 December 31
2017 December 17
Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine. Check out the Website
- I'm 12 years old in my head.
- The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.
- I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.
- I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.
- Examples:
2018 February 04
- Other examples of cartoonists will be added with later revisions.