Graduation Year
2024
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Philosophy
Second Department
Media Studies
Reader 1
Rivka Weinberg
Reader 2
Elizabeth Affuso
Rights Information
© Eleanor M Henderson
Abstract
This paper examines whether comedy is a manipulative form of interaction. Through defining manipulation and establishing a practical definition of how jokes function, it applies the definition of manipulation to the performance and experience of comedy by assessing a joke's deliberate and powerful verbal structure. It closes with a brief discussion of the ethics of comedy, within context of it being a manipulative influence.
Recommended Citation
Henderson, Eleanor, "Comedy is Manipulative and I Can Prove It: Laugh, Now!" (2024). Scripps Senior Theses. 2411.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2411
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