What's the definition of comedy- Addison Anderson (Quiz)

What is a definition?

• The true nature or essence of the defined thing

• Language-mapping that provides meaning to people

• The weirdest word to look up in the dictionary

• A true statement of affairs, the opposite of which cannot also be true

What did Bergson argue comedy tends to target?

• Illogical thinking

• The human need for order

• Hobbesian triumphal mirth

• Inelastic automatism

Are things funny if they’re true?

• No, never

• Yes, always

• Sometimes

• Yes, but only if you wait a while to make fun of them

In which of the following works did Aristotle write about comedy?

• Metaphysics

• Poetics

• Posterior analytics

• Confessions of a Shopaholic

Why is it funny when someone slips on a banana peel?

• The person thought his will and strength would guarantee his safe passage through daily life, but in his unthinking lockstep arrogance, he did not account for the random chances for horrible calamity strewn all around us by an uncaring universe

• Because it then becomes true that he fell, and true things are funny

• Because most yellow things are funny

• Because it makes you think of the person who ate the banana and then threw the peel, and fruit litter is always funny