November 9, 2009

The Pulse of Humor

Category: Academic,Humor — Biella @ 6:53 pm

So when I teach my Introduction to Human Communication and Culture class, we usually do a section on humor and among other articles, I assign a chapter from one of my favorite books, On Humour. It is a nice, quick read delivering however some serious philosophical punch.

Given the pervasiveness of humor on the Internets I also ask students to send me what they think are 2 of the funniest videos. I then compile the list, send out to the class, and they vote on the 2 funniest ones. Here is the list and in a week I will report back on the winners, at least ‘winners’ from the perspective of NYU freshmen:

A) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVDGu82FeQ

B) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqD2aBrqcmQ&feature=related

C) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k

D) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-do8lSJOts

E) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4eIBs8WBw

F) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3sX30NubTs

G )http://www.sickanimation.com/cartoon.asp?name=murshaq

H) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD-Huwlg2kY

I) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVDGu82FeQ

J) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU

K) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upZz3a-7iM

L) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ

M) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tU4fB9nUgc

N) http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74/the-landlord-from-will-ferrell-and-adam-ghost-panther-mckay

O) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKBQrXxrvu0&feature=related

P) http://www.youtube.com/user/doglover199709#p/search/1/rMdWqaN_Tms

Q) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ALIL7T764

R) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs

S) http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1799458

T) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfZ8yVcnLPs

U) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVn27YXEWho

V) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh8UttrmmLc

W) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_nOtD7acQ

*Thanks to James and emacs, here they are with links!

Youtube
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Sick Animation
Youtube
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Youtube
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Funny or Die
Youtube
Youtube
Youtube
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College Humor
Youtube
Youtube
Youtube

11 Comments »

  1. It’s too bad that the web browser makers haven’t come up with a way to make URLs clickable.

    Comment by Sam — November 9, 2009 @ 7:42 pm

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  5. Could have done it but it would have taken too much effort ;(

    Comment by Biella — November 10, 2009 @ 3:29 am

  6. Blog gnome to the rescue! I reformated that list of links as html anchors for easy clickety.

    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Sick Animation
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Funny or Die
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    College Humor
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube
    Youtube

    Comment by James Vasile — November 10, 2009 @ 5:01 am

  7. Sam, if you use Firefox, maybe this extension can help you ;)

    https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/5243

    Its name: QuietURL

    Comment by Andor — November 10, 2009 @ 10:26 am

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  11. @Sam
    By allowing extensions, indirectly they have.

    Comment by mp — November 17, 2009 @ 1:02 pm

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