Highbrow humor vs lowbrow humor?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>What do you think are the differences between them?</p>

<p>And which one do you prefer?</p>

<p>Personally, I find Encyclopedia Dramatica and the stupidity of the Internet most amusing (youtube comments and newspaper comments are often BEST)</p>

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<p>Highbrow is very sophisticated, and something a regular person may not get. Like if lets say I was a physicist making a physics joke only people who are avid about physics will get it. </p>

<p>Lowbrow is something that everyone will understand like a funny knock knock joke. </p>

<p>I prefer both, but lowbrow is funnier sometimes.</p>

<p>Here’s an example of something between a highbrow and lowbrow</p>

<p><a href=“http://■■■■■■■/i2nsd[/url]”>http://■■■■■■■/i2nsd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^Lolzzzzz.</p>

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<p>Oh interesting. So what about, say, 4chan memes? Not everyone gets them.</p>

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<p>@ThisCouldBeHeavn how can you not get it. It was the biggest joke on the internet for like 4yrs. You never seen that joke.</p>

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<p>Here’s one </p>

<p>The answer to the problem was ‘log(1+x)’. A student copied the answer from the good student next to him, but didn’t want to make it obvious that he was cheating, so he changed the answer slightly, to ‘timber(1+x)’</p>

<p>A highbrow is a joke that a lowbrow lover may not get.</p>

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<p>^That’s an example of a lowbrow math joke right?</p>

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<p>Highbrow its not an obvious joke.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.xkcd.com/626/[/url]”>http://www.xkcd.com/626/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Even this is a lowbrow math joke. But a good one, IMO.</p>

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<p>Yea, I think the problem with both jokes is that they are based off of wordplay. As a result, anyone with a basic vocabulary could easily understand both.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.xkcd.com/632/[/url]”>http://www.xkcd.com/632/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>More highbrow. The preceding one is definitely lowbrow, but pretty epic IMO.</p>

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<p>IMO, with jokes I make:
Lowbrow - Person: “***, why is this so long? How am I going to do all of this?”
Me: “that’s what she said”</p>

<p>Highbrow - Me: “That reminds me of Mark Rothko. Or, you know, Barnett Newman, because THEY PAINT THE SAME ****ING THINGS!!!”</p>

<p>That way, if nobody gets my joke, I can feel good that at least I wasn’t stooping to low levels</p>

<p>This one seems lowbrow to me, but I don’t feel inadequate:
“My math midterm is going to be harder than me while reading Paradise Lost”

  • I think I feel proudest when mixing a pedantic topic with a lowbrow joke.</p>

<p>/musing</p>

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<p>@CPA ( :wink: ) Milton? Really? Paradise Lost sucked D:</p>

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<p>Blasphemer! Paradise Lost is the single greatest thing produced by English speaking man! >:O</p>

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<p>Does anyone see CC forum?
[xkcd:</a> Online Communities 2](<a href=“http://xkcd.com/802/]xkcd:”>xkcd: Online Communities 2)</p>

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<p>@CPA False. *Even O’Henry was better.<a href=“Btw%20to%20everyone%20else,%20this%20was%20basically%20a%20literary%20FU,%20the%20only%20thing%20worse%20would%20be%20to%20substitute%20in%20Ayn%20Rand%20but%20that%20would%20be%20a%20%5BU%5Dlow%5B/U%5D%20blow…”>/I</a>
@chicken lol That was the first thing I searched for :frowning:
It’s not there…</p>

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<p>Nooooooo the Gift of the Magi is so overdone!!! and Milton is so brilliant. In fact, he was such a genius that his eyes could no longer see outside himself because what was inside him was too bright</p>

<p>EDIT: Yes, Ayn Rand would have been especially low in light of the fact that I’m currently reading a book on the political theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in my spare time</p>