What's So Funny About That?
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People say you shouldn’t try to explain comedy. To paraphrase E. B. White: analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog; no-one laughs, and the frog dies.1
Let’s analyze that.
To begin with: if you’re in middle school, about to dissect a frog, and the frog is still alive, something has gone badly wrong. Who’s teaching this class, in which tweens are mandated…
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