Miss Grimshaw and the White Elephant
Categorism in a risque humor competition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12196388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Lloyd (0000-0002-3706-4142) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0933-1719 • E-ISSN: 1613-3722 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/humr.2011.004 |
| OpenAlex | W2069972147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
A humorous competition called “The Adventures of Naked Man” ran in a New Zealand newspaper from 1999 to 2000. The competition's protagonist is the sole naked person in a drawn setting where, because of some convenient object or body position, his penis is always obscured from sight. Entrants to the competition submitted a caption to go with the drawn setting, the task being to make humor; the common solution to this task being some form of penis joke based upon double entendre. The editors of the competition employed a “taste test” to reject entries that were too vulgar thus protecting the competition from attack by “moral guardians,” although the details of the test were never fully explained. This article analyzes the full corpus of Naked Man episodes in regard to the finely detailed work of categorization. Drawing on some basic principles of Membership Categorization Analysis, it is shown that the degree of sexual allusiveness in the humor is closely connected to categorizations of people and activities, and in this process the fine detail of quite simple drawings are very significant
Adventure · Amateur · Art history · Categorization · Competition (biology · Object (grammar · Sight · Task (project management · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Engineering · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Artificial Intelligence
Laughter and Ridicule
Categories in Text and Talk
The omnipotence of the actor
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
The Fellatio ‘Epidemic’
Linguistic Theories of Humor
Script theory revis(it)ed
Cognitive aspects of the humor process
Naming of Parts
Naked as Nature Intended
Where Did That Fokker Come From?' The Age's Adventures of Naked Man Cartoon Caption Competition
Introduction
Rear gunners and troubled privates
On Ethnomethodology, Feminism, and the Analysis of Categorial Reference to Gender in Talk-in-Interaction
Gendered sense of humor as expressed through aesthetic typifications
Hegemonic Masculinity
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |