The relevance of the concept ‘Intolerance of Ambiguity’ within the field of humour has been investigated. It is predicted that intolerant people prefer jokes whose incongruity is solvable whilst rejecting the non-solvable nonsense jokes. Subjects were 134 male students who were asked to complete questionnaires and to rate 120 jokes according to the criteria ‘Funniness’ and ‘Rejection’. Both hyp...

This talk will analyze responses to funniness of five versions of 10 different jokes. The responses of one of them will then be compared to theoretical analysis and representation of the same joke based on Script-based Semantics Theory of Humor, General Theory of Verbal Humor, and Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor.

Since 2015, Israeli-born German artist Shahak Shapira has initiated several satirical campaigns targeting antisemitism and racism in Germany the country’s relation to Holocaust. These interventions set Shapira’s career motion, 2019 he landed a slot on ZDF public broadcasting channel for talk show Shapira. The mocked far-right movements reminded viewers of history with Jews. His jokes about conc...

Jokes are indispensable to Slavoj Žižek’s commentaries and theoretical reflexions on politics culture. However, contrary, or in addition, their putative radical meaning capacity render clear certain ideological practices, some of these jokes seem raise serious questions relation politics. The current article will focus three texts by Žižek, all which contain a joke pun, order examine the functi...