Saturday Scholar Series: "What's So Funny About a Joke?" - Mark W. Roche 11.17.12

Why do we tell and enjoy jokes? How are the most complex jokes structured? The presentation, which includes a number of jokes, analyses the greatness and limits of Freud's theory of jokes and then explores the ways in which jokes play with various kinds of paradoxes.

Presented by Mark W. Roche, Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of German Language and Literature, Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures

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The College of Arts and Letters presents Saturday Scholars Series: a different game plan for autumn weekends. Experience an intimate discussion with Notre Dame's most engaging faculty speakers on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times.

Each lecture and Q&A is presented in the Snite Museum's Annenberg Auditorium at 12 noon (unless otherwise noted) on "home game" Saturdays. All lectures are free and open to the public.

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