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Saturday, November 7, 2009 @ 10:00 a.m.
New Yorker Cartoonists
No issue of The New Yorker would be complete without the cartoons sprinkled throughout its pages. Hear three current New Yorker cartoonists—Pat Byrnes, Roz Chast, and Ed Koren — discuss and deconstruct the elements essential to the magazine’s famous cartoons.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009 @ 10:00 a.m.
Sander Gilman: Dr. Freud’s Little Jokes
Freud proposed one of the original theories of laughter back in 1905, arguing that humor is “best fulfilled precisely by Jewish jokes.” But when and why did the Jews become “funny,” and how did Freud’s own conflicted Jewish identity inform his development of psychoanalysis?
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Saturday, November 7, 2009 @ 2:30 p.m.
Blacks, Jews & the Comedy of Subversion
This provocative roundtable discussion explores two of the most important influences on comedy and popular culture in the United States: African American humor and Jewish humor. Panelists will discuss comedy’s role in critiquing and subverting dominant American culture.
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