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The painting Stańczyk, which contains a depiction of the sad clown paradox. The sad clown paradox is the contradictory association, in performers, between comedy and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.
A clown wearing a hat of a ridiculously small and incongruous size. The ridiculous often has extreme incongruity (things that are not thought to belong next to each other) or inferiority, e.g., "when something that was dignified is reduced to a ridiculous position (here noting the element of the incongruous), so that laughter is most intense when we escape from a 'coerced solemnity'."
Appeal to ridicule is often found in the form of comparing a multi-layered circumstance or argument to a laughably commonplace event or to another irrelevant thing based on comedic timing, or wordplay.
A false dilemma is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. [1] [2] [3] In its most simple form, called the fallacy of bifurcation, all but two alternatives are excluded.
The root word mock traces to the Old French mocquer (later moquer), meaning to scoff at, laugh at, deride, or fool, [3] [4] although the origin of mocquer is itself unknown. [5] Labeling a person or thing as a mockery may also be used to imply that it or they are a poor quality or counterfeit version of some genuine other, such as the case in ...
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Urban Dictionary added a definition for the term as early as 2008, with one entry listing it as "a laughably poor performance." [ 1 ] Usage of "dumpster fire" remained relatively obscure throughout the early 2010s, but gained widespread usage starting in 2010 in the world of American sports, where teams that performed exceptionally poorly would ...
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