Jim Holt — author of "Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes" — states a proposition (and debates it with Will Wilkinson whose immediate response is: "Can't possibly be true").
That joke Earl Butz told just wasn't funny?
Sarah Silverman's "the Holocaust isn't always funny" is funny?
Monday, July 21, 2008
"There are no moral or immoral jokes. A joke is either funny or it is not. That is all."
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