The Arts in NYC

Since a lot of us are majoring in some field in engineering, here are some clever jokes for us prospective engineers: Q: What do engineers use for birth control? A: Their personalities. - To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as [...]

We had discussed this during class at some point, but i believe it is worthy of mentioning again. I had made the point that comedy is in some sense fleeting and ephemeral. Let me make my case a little more clearly now that i have the time. When one enjoys a comedic skit, or a [...]

Even though I do take amusement in some dirty jokes, I am far more fond of clean jokes.  I feel as if clean jokes require a certain amount of finesse that isn't necessarily required for their "dirty" taboo counterparts.  I've added one of my favorite standup routines-- one which happens to be an entirely clean [...]

Yo mama like the sun, look at her too long, and you're going to go blind. Yo mama like a christmas tree Yo mama like a doorknob Yo mama like a 747 Yo mama like McDonalds I think you know, remember, and can fill in the rest of those phrases. What makes yo mama jokes so appealing and funny? Or was [...]

"A smile a day keeps the doctor away," or maybe it's an apple. In any case, no one would deny the therapeutic effects of humour. (N.b. when I say humour I do not necessarily mean laughter.) We could say that humour is the unexpected -- something said, observed, experienced which is outside of the normal [...]