More Comedy Wanted
HEARD the first talk on "The Function of Humour" in a series which has just started from 4YZ Invercargill. In this talk, Jack Laird, lecturer in philosophy at Auckland University College, began to take the sense of humour to pieces and analyse it in a manner which would have been forbidding if it had not been for the lively anecdotes which illustrated the subject. I really don’t know whether it is much gain to the listener to have his sense of humour analysed; we may, hereafter, get to wondering just why we are laughing at something, and the joke will be automatically spoiled. Speaking of humour, we could do with a lot more of it on the radio, Now and then a_ brief "variety" session will include a few humorous records, but there are too few of them, apparently, to make a fulllength programme. Good comedians, like prima donnas or ballerinas, are born with the gift, and the advent of a really good new comedian is an event to be hailed with delight. But since such an event is rare, let us treasure those comedians we have-the Danny Kayes, the Spike Joneses, the Jimmy Durantes- and let’s have more of their records (and any others you happen to be fond of) in place of much of the nondescript, nebulous, background music which unworthily fills up far too much of the day’s programmes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 520, 10 June 1949, Page 11
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235More Comedy Wanted New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 520, 10 June 1949, Page 11
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