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From Lucy to “I Love Lucy”
In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Comic Relief. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 40–68 (2009-09-04)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: What Was First Funny? The Basic Pattern in Humor: The Playful Enjoyment of a Cognitive Shift Is Expressed in Laughter The Worth of Mirth.
From Lucy to “I Love Lucy”‐ evolution of humor laughter of earliest humans ‐ evolving from primate play signals laughter‐evoking play activities ‐ enjoyable, with nothing necessarily humorous Paul McGhee's four stages in humor development “Incongruous Labeling of Objects and Events” impersonating, mimicking, and pretending ‐ being central in comedy playing with sounds of words and multiple meanings Bavaria, fifteenth through eighteenth centuries ‐ Risus Paschalis (Easter Laughter) Greece, fifth century BCE ‐ behaviors giving rise to “komoidia” comedy basic pattern in humor ‐ playful enjoyment of cognitive shift expressed in laughter
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