Friday, December 04, 2009

Riding the Tiger

I had fun listening to this bit of Tiger Woods joke analysis from NPR on my drive home tonight. It's a light meditation on how jokes spread after a scandal--especially in the age of Twitter--with special attention to "public domain" humor (i.e. amateur jokes). I know it's a little teacherly of me to say this, but I thought I'd like to hold on this for class use some day. Given the shelf life of topical humor, though, I better try to work it into my Middle East unit for maximum effect. Anyone got any good Israeli-Palestinian conflict jokes?

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