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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.
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.
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 ...
The sketch show is now known for jumpstarting the successful careers of dozens of comedy icons — former cast member Adam Sandler was Hollywood's highest-paid actor in 2023, earning $73 million ...
2 Etymololgy of the Term "The Dozens" 3 comments. 3 Page content. 4 ...
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