The article nevertheless seeks to accomplish more than that positive mission, and thus assesses the beneficial and potentially detrimental consequences of current humor regulation. Where the humor in a suit has incongruous qualities, courts tend to avoid liability, thereby placing incongruous humor beyond the law's grip.ĭocumenting patterns in humor regulation provides important guidance for courts, attorneys, and humorists seeking to understand and predict legal regulation.
Incongruity humor arises from the juxtaposition of two inconsistent or unrelated phenomena. What is more surprising, however, is courts' tendency to privilege another type of humor: incongruity humor. Release humor taps into repressed sources of pleasure, pressure, or anxiety, focusing on taboo or difficult topics such as sex, excretion, or death.Ĭourts' imposition of liability for superiority and release humor is consistent with civil law's corrective justice goals and with the specific cause of action requirements for contract, trademark, and employment discrimination. Superiority humor seeks amusement through a communication that makes one person feel successful at the expense of others. The cases in all three areas regulate two types of humor with particular vigor: superiority humor and release humor. Across this diverse array of legal categories, the article identifies remarkable consistency in the types of humor that courts choose to regulate and the types that courts instead allow to flourish unimpeded by legal rules. Using tools developed by humor theorists, the article explores how the law regulates humor in three doctrinal areas: contract, trademark, and employment discrimination. This article analyzes legal regulation of humor through the lens of that literature. Philosophers, literary theorists, natural scientists, and social scientists have created a rich literature explaining how humor affects individual and group well-being. Non-legal theorists have, however, for centuries devoted considerable effort to defining and cataloguing humor. Patterns emerge from this humor regulation, with courts systematically preferring some types of humor over others.Įxplicit analysis of the law's regulatory effect on different types of humor is conspicuously absent in case law and legal scholarship.
Courts respond by matching injuries with legal rules, and choose to insulate, tolerate, encourage, condemn or suppress the humor. The Little Mermaid, directed by Rob Marshall, opens in theaters nationwide on May 26, 2023.When humor hurts people, they may press claims in court, ascribing blame and demanding redress. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The film stars Halle Bailey as Ariel, Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay as the voice of Flounder, Awkwafina as the voice of Scuttle, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Art Malik as Sir Grimsby, Noma Dumezweni as Queen Selina, Javier Bardem as King Triton, and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. List by "The Top 5 List." More crazy lists like these are available at Check out the teaser trailer for The Little Mermaid, the upcoming live-action reimagining of the animated musical classic. "Who's your Jedi master? WHO'S your Jedi Master?" "When 900 years old you get, Viagra you need too, hmmmmm?"ġ. "Happens to every guy sometimes this does."ģ. "You know, this would be a lot more fun without Frank Oz's hand up my ass."Ĥ. "Foreplay, cuddling-a Jedi craves not these things."Ĩ. "Ahhh! Yoda's little friend you seek!"ġ1. The Top 12 Things Uttered by Yoda While Making Loveġ2. So Internet humorists came up with this handy list of lines for Yoda when he's, um, doing it. From the Never Thought We'd See This Dept.Ī friend of Jeff's pointed this out today, and all we have to see that when even the porn sites are Star Wars savvy, then you know it's big:Īlso, fans of Yoda know that he's old and sterile by the time Empire Strikes back rolls around, but somewhere in his 900-year-old life, he's had to gotten something.
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