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The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up. Common in African American communities, the Dozens is almost exclusively played in front of an audience, who encourage the participants to reply with increasingly severe insults in order to heighten the tension and consequently make the contest more interesting to watch.
While the previous entries relied on homophonic double-entendres, this one mines another classic comedy trope: Little kids cracking "yo mama" jokes in the schoolyard. Yes, Kmart is playing the Dozens.
A "yo mama" joke in William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, detail from the First Folio. A "yo mama" joke or your mom joke is a form of humor involving a verbal disparaging of one's mother. Used as an insult, "your mother..." preys on widespread sentiments of parental respect.
An example of signifyin' is "playing the dozens". The dozens is a game in which participants seek to outdo each other by throwing insults back and forth. Tom Kochman offered as an example in Rappin' and Stylin' Out: Communication in Urban Black America (1972): " Yo momma sent her picture to the lonely hearts club, but they sent it back and said ...
“Capping as a behavior was and is often used by African Americans while playing The Dozens, which is a social game involving insulting others with exquisite wordplay for fun,” says Wright ...
Please don't list "Your mom..." jokes here. It's unencyclopedic and duplicates the existing list at The Dozens. Dgies 05:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC). Yeah someone might want to get out into the sunlight sometime and notice how 'your mom' jokes in the movies and on tv aren't the same in delivery or content as the ones used in real life. --68.20.3.186
"Stick you in a dozens and yo pappy is yo cousin "And yo mama do the lawdylawd" The following year, 1930, he recorded again, this time in Chicago , Illinois , resulting in most notably "The Dirty Dozens No. 2," which was not nearly as successful and the pianist was without a contract or label and again playing making the rounds at Memphis ...
Matthew Tenedorio, 25, had a superpower: He could make people laugh, one of his cousins said. Tenedorio leaves behind two loving older brothers, his parents and many devastated cousins, said Zach ...