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And as to Foxworthy and Engvall using material that certainly would be considered in bad taste in some social environments, Kant writes, "...The judgement of taste is not a cognitive judgement...and hence, also, is not grounded on concepts, nor yet intentionally directed to them." The judgement of taste on the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" is that which produces laughs, not that which necessarily matches up with the values expounded by syndicated radio host "Dr. Laura" or "Miss Manners" in the newspapers.

James P.T. Fatt, "Why do we laugh?" Communication World 15.9 (1998): 12-15.

Jeroen Vandaele, "Humor Mechanisms in Film Comedy: Incongruity and Superiority," Poetics Today 23.2 (2002): 221-228.

John Morreall, Taking Laughter Seriously (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983) 15-16.

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Jeffry H. Goldstein & Paul E. McGhee, The Psychology of Humor (New York: Academic Press, 1972) 10-11.

Francis Hutcheson, "Reflections Upon Laughter," Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics, ed. Saam Trigvedi, accessed 26 Sept. 2006 at http://www.aesthetics-online.org/ideas/trivedi.html.

Michael Clark, "The Rejection of Humor in Western Thought," Philosophy East & West, July 1989: 39.3, 243-265.

Sigmund Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (New York W.W. Norton & Company, 1960) 96-98.

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, "First Part: Critique of Aesthetic Judgement; Section 1. Analytic of Aesthetic Judgement; Book I. Analytic of the Beautiful; First Moment. Of the judgement of Taste: Moment of Quality. SS 5. Comparison….....

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