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Funny Or French: How Humor Varies Across Cultures, Audrey Mefford
Funny Or French: How Humor Varies Across Cultures, Audrey Mefford
Honors Theses
This paper examines the works of four cartoonists (Saul Steinberg, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Roz Chast, and Claire Bretécher) in order to determine similarities and differences between French humor and American humor. It incorporates compiled data from each of the above artist's lifetime works, as well as knowledge from the fields of cartoons and comics, sociology, and cross-cultural psychology, to answer the question "What is funny?" in each of these two disparate cultures.