Lloyd2007
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Lloyd2007 |
| Author(s) | Mike Lloyd |
| Title | The Artful Accomplishment of Humour in a "Dick Joke" Competition |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, humor, dirty jokes |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Journal | Journal of Folklore Research |
| Volume | 44 |
| Number | 2-3 |
| Pages | 279–302 |
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Abstract
A humorous competition called "The Adventures of Naked Man" ran in a Wellington, 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 obscured from sight. Entrants to the competition submitted a caption to go with the drawn setting, the point being to make humour. Without explicit instruction, most entrants constructed some form of "dick joke." This article pursues the questions of how these jokes are constructed and what variations exist based on the full corpus of Naked Man settings and captions. Basic principles of conversation analysis, including some early work of Sacks on punning, are used to analyse the artful accomplishment and popularity of the Naked Man competition. The article also offers more speculative comments to do with gender and the organisation of language about sexuality.
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