--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I assume most view laughing with someone as a good thing. > > I think satire is an attempt to get everyone laughing. The target may > see themselves in the satire, but can take refuge and think "well at > least I am not that bad" and laugh. > > With friends, we often make a joke at their expense --laughing at > them, to get them to laugh with us. Its a friendly way to point out a > perceived foilble without getting all serious. "Dude, you have got > your head up your ass on this issue", says one friend to another. Its > mocking the first, so he can step back and maybe take some > perspective. The insultee then may often respond witb a retort, again > attempting to help the other gain some perspective, "At least I am not > pussy-whipped like you." They both laugh, but GET each others point. > Thats an at/with laugh. > > This ussually does not work with strangers. Imagine the same convo > between two guys on the street. Blood in the streets. > > I sense some communication on FFL occurs when someone assumes too > close a sense of friendship with other poster, throws out a laugh > at/with perspective-inducing barb, and the receiver takes it as an > insult, not as intended. > > In groups, there can be pure laugh ats, when its deemed the insultee > beyond help, but the barb is a cautionary tale to the group --"lets us > not be such assholes". > > And then there is the one-on-one put down. Not the most refined > behavior. But for it to be an attack, to draw blood, the insultee has > to play victim and accept it as an insult. A "sticks and stones" sort > of thing. >
Requires a certain eveness of relationship between the comedian and the audience for this to work, I think... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
