Brown's Self-Mocking Humor

bruno14
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:48:32 +0000

I definitely think it is a reoccurring theme at Brown. In one of my classes earlier this week, a visiting lecturer used the example of “how many ____ students do you need to put in a lightbulb” jokes when explaining stereotypes in psychology. His list of schools and answers didn’t include Brown, so we shared the Brown version of this joke with him:

How many Brown students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Eleven. One to put it in and ten to share the experience.