Wynn, Alison. “You Think That’s Funny? A Professor Explores the ‘Why’ behind Humor.” THE UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 8 Dec. 2016, https://college.unc.edu/2016/12/kotzen/..

 

There is a connection between humor and philosophy,  in order to understand why something is funny, you must understand the philosophical ideas behind ethics and beauty. A professor who teaches a graduate-level course, “Value Theory: Humor”  had a conference to “bring together scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives to discuss different approaches to humor,” said Kotzen. They came up with the fact that humor can be used to further social progress, promote open-mindedness and self-understanding, stand up for the oppressed, call people out for their hypocrisy and selfishness, and for their greed or political vices.

 

 

Accomando, Beth. “‘Can We Take A Joke?’ Looks To A Comedian’s Right To Offend.” Kpbs.org, 29 July 2016, https://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jul/29/new-documentary-asks-if-offensives-jokes-are-prote/. 

 

Free speech means that people can voice ideas and opinions and even tell bad jokes that you don’t like.” Free speech is a two-way street so if a stand up comedian says something that people are offended by, they need to prepare to hear from those people, because they have the right to speak out as well.