Name: 【TED-Ed】What's the definition of comedy? Banana. - Addison Anderson
Uploaded: 2013-11-22T08:53:14.000Z
Duration: 4 min 51 s
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Thinkers and philosophers from Plato and Aristotle

You're lucky you found this video to sort it out.

because definitions sometimes need defiance.

that we've perceived in the whirling chaos of existence.

into a cosmological construct of knowledge.

so we build a thing that we call reality.

that tight knot connecting a word and truth.

And let's jump back to thinking about what's funny,

because some people say it's real simple:

Made-up nonsense jibberish is frequently hilarious.

but I'm not laughing just because that's the case.

So, why are some untruths and only some truths funny?

How do these laughable truths and untruths

the cosmological reality of facts and definitions?

to destroy mechanical in-elasticity in people's attitudes and behavior.

Someone doing the same thing over and over,

or building up a false image of themself and the world,

by just noticing the banana peel on the ground --

ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity,

to study what's funny about all sorts of things.

At the base of this concept of comedy is contradiction

A set system that claims to define reality

might be one of those dehumanizing forces

Not Poetics, where he drops a few thoughts on comedy,

the fundamental law of non-contradiction,

Contradictory statements are not at the same time true.

that A and the opposite of A are both true.

of logical contradiction and its derivatives.

We laugh when the order we project on the world

contradicts truths we don't like talking about,

in the silent darkness of private thought

are dragged into public by a good stand-up,

because cats that are also somehow humans