Humor Theory
One of the reasons why humor is studied, 4 possible answers.
What is to entertain?
What is to connect?
What is to build a community?
What is to cope?
Define dialect
What is the form of language used specifically to a region or a cultural group?
The Apollo was built in.
What is 1913?
Define folklore.
What is the values, beliefs, and customs of African American people?
A comic who combined the emerging mood of assertiveness and increased worldliness.
Who is Jackie "Moms" Mabley?
Define superiority humor
What is the pleasure of feeling superior to others?
A Harlem Renaissance writer born in 1891.
What is Zora Neale Hurston?
When comedians would paint their faces to portray African Americans.
What is Blackface?
Tales of mental strength.
What is a trickster tales?
Partner of Pigmeat Markham at the Apollo
Who is Johnny Lee Long?
Another name for power dynamics
What is schaderfreude?
TV Analysis episode.
What is 'Everybody Hates Easter'?
When Apollo Theater came to into's prime.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The hidden meaning connected to racial oppression.
What are the folktale themes?
Timmie Rogers's comedic act was.
What is a comedy-dance team in the early forties?
The two types of incongruity humor.
What is threatening and non-threatening?
Define The Jook.
What is a pleasure house?
Hurtig & Seamon’s New Burlesque Theater.
What is the name of the building before it was called the Apollo Theater?
Define Fables.
What is often used to teach a lesson?
Pigmeat Markham an Apollo comedian who...
What is a minstrel comedian who used Blackface as an opportunity to step outside of himself along with long time partner Johnny Lee Long?
A coping mechanism used as humor.
What is relief/release humor?
Define Will to Adorn.
What is heed to stylize, to create, and to reinvent?
The Apollo Theater became the Apollo Theater in.
What is 1934?
The symbols of folktales.
What are the rabbit and the fox?
A comedian who used comic poems in his stand-up shows.
Who is Nipsey Russel?