Pandemic Humor: Inventory of the Humor Scripts Produced during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Torres, Joel Mayo; Collantes, Leila M.; Astrero, Emily T.; Millan, Arceli R.; Gabriel, Carlo M.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3679473

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“…Hussein and Aljamili used Kress and Leeuween’s social semiotics approach to analyze specific semiotic patterns in COVID-related caricatures and memes in Jordanian social media to identify what humor types were present and to determine how humor was being helpful. A similar research exploration was conducted by Torres et al ( 2020 ) who examined English and Tagalog COVID-related humor scripts on social medial platforms that had been posted to “soften grief, lighten mood, distract people from the struggle in accepting the new normal… (and) used as coping mechanism for the bad scenario experienced by many” (p. 138). Their study identified a diverse range of humor types, targets, subjects, and structures.…”

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A scoping research literature review to explore bereavement humor

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The death of a loved one is extremely impactful. Although much of the focus now on helping people who are experiencing bereavement grief is oriented to distinguishing complicated from non-complicated grief for early pharmaceutical or psychiatric treatment, lay bereavement support comprises a more common and thus highly important but often unrecognized consideration. A wide variety of lay bereavement programs with diverse components have come to exist. This scoping research literature review focused on bereavement humor, one possible component. Humor has long been recognized as an important social attribute. Researchers have found humor is important for lifting the spirits of ill people and for aiding healing or recovery. However, humor does not appear to have been recognized as a technique that could benefit mourners. A multi-database search revealed only 11 English-language research articles have been published in the last 25 years that focused in whole or in part on bereavement humour. Although minimal evidence exists, these studies indicate bereaved people often use humor and for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, no investigations revealed when and why bereavement humor may be inappropriate or unhelpful. Additional research, multi-cultural investigations in particular, are needed to establish humor as a safe and effective bereavement support technique to apply or to use. Bereavement humor could potentially be used more often to support grieving people and bereaved people should perhaps be encouraged to use humor in their daily lives.

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“…Sola-Morales (2020) también afianza, al igual que nuestros resultados, que la ironía y la parodia son parte de un humor en confinamiento que pretende hacer reflexionar. Un humor como mecanismo para afrontar el escenario que hemos enfrentado de forma mundial (Torres et al, 2020). Un humor que en una noche especial no deja de lado la realidad, aunque la comedia sea su baza principal.…”

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“…Por lo tanto, este artículo se adscribe en un prisma reciente de investigación, aunque prolijo, sobre el que partimos de Sola-Morales (2020) y su análisis de memes digitales sobre la COVID-19 en España que ha servicio de base metodológica, como se comprobará en siguientes páginas. Conformando pues parte de una nueva línea de trabajo que prevé explorar el uso del humor durante el período confinamiento causado por la pandemia del coronavirus y en el que se ha revisado su tratamiento internacional desde Torres et al (2020), Balarezo-López (2020) y los memes virales en Perú como modo de enfrentar la adversidad con humor, en Ecuador (Mancero, Naranjo y Parreño, 2020), Jordania (Hussein y Aljamili, 2020) o Italia (Amici, 2020) desde donde se advierte una de las principales cualidades del humor, su efecto dis-Zer 26-51 (2021), 139-162 Patricia Gascón-Vera tanciador y emocional gracias a su comicidad y sus técnicas de la ansiedad lo que le convierte en una herramienta de comunicación que permite reinterpretar su significado.…”

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La televisión en fin de año y los especiales de humor de José Mota. Imitaciones y parodias para relatar la actualidad y la COVID-19 desde la comedia

Vera

2021

ZER- Rev. estud. comun.

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El último día del año, la programación televisiva se adapta. Durante los últimos treinta años, en TVE los humoristas se han hecho cargo del especial previo a las campanadas. Concretamente, José Mota lo ha liderado veinte ocasiones, la mitad en solitario, con alta repercusión de audiencia, pero poca profusión académica. Por ello, se contrasta su guion con las preocupaciones sociales del CIS y sus características estructurales desde un análisis de contenido comparativo sobre sus dos últimas emisiones, 2019 y 2020. Cotejo que arroja que su escaleta aborda, pero no de forma mayoritaria, el paro, la política o el COVID-19 desde imitaciones y parodias.

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“…Kertcher and Turin (2020) suggest "Humor provided a tool for coping with stress and comfort in the shadow of isolation, unemployment, and the horrors of death." Torres et al (2020) note: "Humor is shaped by culture, is subjective and requires cognition. "…”

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“…Several humor-related studies were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic: Kercher and Turin (2020) who studied memes in Israel; Oduor and Kodak (2020) who studied humor as a means of dealing with the crisis event in Kenya and Torres et al (2020) who made a discursive analysis of humor in the Philippines.…”

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Humor in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hadžić¹,

Baralić²

2021

In medias res (Zagreb. Online)

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The research is focused on the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia – March 2020. The subject of the research are humorous messages related to the pandemic. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this research showed how the interviewed respondents experienced the received humorous content related to the coronavirus and what content characteristics of the humorous messages were detected through the content analysis.

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Pandemic Humor: Inventory of the Humor Scripts Produced during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Cited by 17 publications

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A scoping research literature review to explore bereavement humor

A scoping research literature review to explore bereavement humor

La televisión en fin de año y los especiales de humor de José Mota. Imitaciones y parodias para relatar la actualidad y la COVID-19 desde la comedia

Humor in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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