1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
2. You're never "just joking." Nobody is ever "just joking." Humor is a social act that performs a social function (always).
.@5thCircAppeals you must be a fucking blast at parties https://x.com/5thCircAppeals/s...
.@5thCircAppeals Storify?
@5thCircAppeals I'm reminded of Al Franken's phrase: "Kidding on the square." You're joking, but you also mean it.
@5thCircAppeals I would love to read this
@conor64 I finally got around to making this available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BR...
@5thCircAppeals Still relevant.
@5thCircAppeals Would very much like to read your thesis. I use comedy to engage in #scicomm. Learned from comics. Might learn from you too.
@JATetro Now available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BR...
@5thCircAppeals your Tweet was quoted in an article by @mashable http://mashable.com/2016/08/10...
@5thCircAppeals I actually wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the functionality of humor in different developmental stages in childhood. It's never just a joke
@katekate2late Nice
,@5thCircAppeals For the whole thread
@5thCircAppeals @assaf This is like that scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen pulls out Marshall McLuhan
Fascinating.@5thCircAppeals I teach comedy and may have to introduce this to my students. I do have a lesson where this would be a good fit.
@5thCircAppeals Hi Jason.This is a v interesting thread (I'm a criminologist writing about police officers' jokes)+ I'd like to read yr work
@AnnaSouhami thanks! Scroll way down on my feed for link to dissertation
@5thCircAppeals I expected this series of tweets to be much funnier after that introduction.
@5thCircAppeals Something else about humor & DT: 1) It's all in the delivery 2)It wasn't funny 3)No one laughed. It was a call to arms.
@5thCircAppeals well argued. I'll be testing my own inclinations towards 'excusable', just-joking humour henceforth. Thank you.
@Joannalogue thanks!
@5thCircAppeals Very good! I have a corollary - People are completely honest when they're 'joking.' Knowing that ruined banter for me.
@5thCircAppeals Thank you. Beautiful writing.
@5thCircAppeals great thread. Thank you for the enlightenment. I wish everyone read it!
@5thCircAppeals It's refreshing to hear a wise voice instead of this terrifyingly stupid, bat crap crazy, ranting little-handed orange one!
@5thCircAppeals ...#1 - Know your audience. He does.That's what makes it scary.
@5thCircAppeals WOW! What a great thread. Best thing I've read in a long time, Jason. Thank you.
@NorthoverDaniel Thanks!
@5thCircAppeals - in Mexico there is a saying on this "entre broma y broma la verdad se asoma" | "from joke to joke a peek of truth be told"
@5thCircAppeals And psychologists can agree. “Just joking” is a subtle (or not) form of hostility and aggression. And the recipient, the target of the “joke,” knows it. It is a razor slice from the dark.