Hutton Honors College

Discussion Supper:
Humor across Cultures-- What Makes Us Laugh?

• Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 6-7:30 p.m.
• Honors House, 324 N. Jordan
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

What makes us laugh? If we laugh, would the whole world, or only people like us, laugh with us? Are some forms of humor international and others culturally specific? Is humor translatable? Would Stephen Colbert, Dave Chappell, Dane Cook, Margaret Cho, or Sacha Baron Cohen be funny everywhere? Does every country tell lawyer jokes? Guffaw at the same pratfalls? Groan at puns? Relish satire? What roles do gender, power, ethnicity, or physical characteristics play? At what point does humor cease to be funny? What is out of bounds? Join IU faculty and fellow students for a discussion of humor around the world.

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