Start an alternative funny argument: Get in a stupid argument (knowing you're wrong) with someone very argumentative.
He added, "It's a funny argument to spend time on.
But one consequence of this has been to reignite the dreaded "women aren't funny" argument, the comedy world's answer to "creationism is a science", in that it's a ridiculous notion with no supporting evidence, but people keep bringing it up again and again because it conforms to their own views.
Although this ad is intended to be funny, arguments that make no more sense can and do affect public policy.
A much longer but not much funnier argument erupts over a story about a diver eaten by a blowfish, pursued to hysterical ends by Mr. Gregg's increasingly irritable Buck, who insists at one point that it's a parable about "man's fate" in a "hostile universe".
It's funny, this argument goes; Cox works hard, if frantically, and there's a strong supporting cast including the ever-watchable Busy Philipps as the hard-partying Laurie, and Brian Van Holt, who steals every scene he's in as Jules's laid-back bum of an ex-husband.
It has resulted in a terrible, cultural black hole in which only Marks Thomas and Steele are funny, goes the argument, and to make up for decades of imperialism, all white Britons should leap over the cliffsof Dover in a futile but poignant lemming-style suicide/apology.
Wiggins (1987: 195) holds such a no-priority view even of the relation between amusement and the funny, but his argument on this point is less than compelling (cf. D'Arms and Jacobson 2006a).
If the argument is funny, that's playing the game".
Future generations, he told his mirthful and disbelieving interrogators, would be truly grateful.The funny thing about this argument is that, in its fundamentals, it is plainly right.
It is an approach that he used with much success in his three novels and, most notably in his last book, "How Proust Can Change Your Life," a funny, robust and joyous argument for negotiating the daunting thickets of "Remembrance of Things Past".
