[lbo-talk] Jon Stewart defies the odds

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 21 08:35:24 PDT 2005


--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>
> I don't entirely buy his theory of humor (in part
> because it's been
> obsoleted by changes in society that his theories
> contributed to bring
> about; in part because it's simply too
> one-dimensional) but Freud thought
> jokes were entirely a matter of male sexual
> aggression -- expressing the
> taboo in a distorted form to get it through the
> social censor.

Then why do women tell jokes?

Do men have secret, suppressed desires regarding travelling salesmen? :)

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