ACF Fiorentina

As of February 3, 2006. Methods:. UEFA Cup runners up. Required components:. Champions' League runners up. Isaac Asimov, on the other hand, proposes (in his first jokebook, Treasury of Humor) that the essence of humour is anticlimax: an abrupt change in point of view, in which trivial matters are suddenly elevated in importance above those that would normally be far more important. Cup Winners' Cup runners up. Heinlein proposes that humour comes from pain, and that laughter is a mechanism to keep us from crying.

Cup Winners' Cup winners. In Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Coppa Italia winners. A number of science fiction writers have explored the theory of humour. Serie A winners. Americans visiting Australia have gained themselves a reputation for gullibility and a lack of a sense of humour by not recognising that tales of kangaroos hopping across the Sydney Harbour Bridge exemplify the propensity for this style of leg-pulling. . One notable trait of Australians (perhaps inherited from the British) lies in their use of deadpan humour, in which the joker will make an outrageous or ridiculous statement without giving any explicit signs of joking.

The combination of Jorgensen, Fiore and Toni proved to be dominant as Toni scored over 21 goals so far. Users of some psychoactive drugs tend to find humour in many more situations and events than one normally would. So far in 2005-06, their form has greatly improved, and they are currently in contention for a Champions League place. Although many writers have emphasised the positive or cathartic effects of humour some, notably Billig, have emphasises the potential of humour for cruelty and its involvement with social control and regulation. In their first season back in Italian football's top flight, the club struggled to avoid relegation, securing survival only on the last day of the season, and avoiding a relegation playoff only on head-to-head record against Bologna and Parma. Prominent theoreticians in this field include Raymond Gibbs, Herbert Clark, Michael Billig, Willibald Ruch, Victor Raskin, Eliot Oring, and Salvatore Attardo. Fiorentina completed their remarkable comeback by winning the match 2-1 on aggregate, with both goals scored by Enrico Fantini, to gain promotion back to Serie A. There also exist linguistic and psycholinguistic studies of humour, irony, parody and pretence.

This achievement placed the Viola in a two-legged playoff against Perugia (the 15th-place finisher in Serie A) for a position in Serie A. Puns classify words not by what lives (their meaning) but by mechanics (their mere sound). The club's unusual double promotion was not without controversy, with some suggesting that Fiorentina did not deserve it; however, the club remained in Serie B and managed to finish the 2003-2004 season in sixth place. A Bergsonian might explain puns in the same spirit. Matches were still being played at the Artemio Franchi stadium. He used as an instance a book by an English humorist, in which an elderly woman who desired a reputation as a philanthropist provided "homes within easy hail of her mansion for the conversion of atheists who have been specially manufactured for her, so to speak, and for a number of honest folk who have been made into drunkards so that she may cure them of their failing, etc." This idea seems funny because a genuine impulse of charity as a living, vital impulse has become encrusted by a mechanical conception of how it should manifest itself. In the 2003 off-season, the club also bought back the right to use the Fiorentina name and the famous shirt design, and re-incorporated itself as ACF Fiorentina. The French philosopher Henri Bergson wrote an essay on "the meaning of the comic", in which he viewed the essence of humour as the encrustation of the mechanical upon the living.

This was only possible because the Italian Football Federation chose to resolve the Catania situation by increasing the number of teams in Serie B from 20 to 24. Notable studies of humour have come from the pens of Aristotle in The Poetics (Part V), of Sigmund Freud in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious and of Schopenhauer. However, due to the bizarre Caso Catania (Catania Case) the club skipped Serie C1 and was admitted into Serie B. Typically, the priest will make a remark, the rabbi will continue in the same vein, and then the lawyer will make a third point that forms a sharp break from the established pattern, but nonetheless forms a logical (or at least stereotypical) response. Helped by Di Livio, the club won it's regional section in Serie C2 with considerable ease at the end of the 2002-2003 season, which would normally have led to a promotion to Serie C1. For instance, a class of jokes exists beginning with the formulaic line "A priest, a rabbi, and a lawyer are sitting in a bar..." (or close variations on this). The only player to remain at the club as they began their new life was Angelo Di Livio, whose commitment to the cause of resurrecting the club further endeared him to the fans. For this reason also, many jokes work in threes.

The club was promptly re-established in August 2002 as Florentia Viola with a new owner, Diego Della Valle, and was admitted into Serie C2, one of the lower tiers in Italian football. For example:. This form of bankruptcy (sports companies cannot exactly fail in this way in Italy, but they can suffer a similar procedure) meant that the club was refused a place in Serie B for the 2002-2003 season, and as a result, effectively ceased to exist. Perhaps the essence of humour lies in the presentation of something familiar to a person, so they think they know the natural follow-on thought or conclusion, then providing a twist through presentation something different from what the audience expected (see surprise), or else the natural result of interpreting the original situation in a different, less common, way. Then, Fiorentina were relegated at the end of the 2001-2002 season and went into judicially controlled administration in June 2002. White once said that "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." However, attempts to do just that have been made, such as this one:. The club owner, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, was able to raise some more money, but even this soon proved to be insufficient resources to sustain the club. Author E.B.

2001 heralded major changes for Fiorentina, as the terrible state of the club's finances was revealed; they were unable to pay wages and had debts of around USD 50 million. Some claim that humour cannot or should not be explained. Upon return to Serie A the club again proved able in the cup competitions, winning the Coppa Italia again in 1996 and 2000 and the Italian SuperCoppa. This is why jokes are often funny only when told the first time. Success in the Coppa Italia was repeated in 1975, but from then until the late 1990s the club found itself in the doldrums, culminating in a season in Serie B (second division) in 1993-1994. Once the problem in meaning has been described through a joke, people immediately begin correcting their impressions of the symbols that have been mocked. In 1974 the Viola won the Anglo-Italian Cup. In other words, comedy is a sign of a 'bug' in the symbolic make-up of language, as well as a self-correcting mechanism for such bugs.

In the 1960s the club won the Coppa Italia and the Mitropa Cup in 1966 and were league champions again in the 1968-1969 season. Irony is explicitly this form of comedy, whereas slapstick takes more passive social norms relating to physicality and plays with them. In the 1960-1961 season the club won the Coppa Italia again and was also successful in Europe, winning the first Cup Winners' Cup against Rangers. Language is an approximation of thoughts through symbolic manipulation, and the gap between the expectations inherent in those symbols and the breaking of those expectations leads to laughter. The club won its first trophy in 1939-40 with the Coppa Italia and its first scudetto (Italian championship) in 1955-1956, the club were runners-up in the four following seasons. One explanation of humour is based on the fact that a great deal of humour is a consequence of language. The club was founded on August 26, 1926 by the merger of Libertas and Club Sportivo Firenze. Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of the term (the German loanword from English) to mean any type of comedy.

The club usually plays at the 47,282-capacity all-seater 'Comunale' Stadium "Artemio Franchi" (known until 1991 as Comunale di Firenze, which had itself replaced the "Giovanni Francesco Berta" in the 1930s). By comparison, the use of irony creates the perception of a passage from the serious to the comic, while in humour the opposite is true. The club atraditional colors were originally red and white but were changed to purple and white in 1928; since then, the club has been generally known as "i Viola" (the purple ones). For this reason humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective. ACF Fiorentina, formerly Associazione Calcio Fiorentina, is an Italian football club based in Florence (Firenze), Tuscany. The term "humour" as formerly applied in comedy referred to the interpenetration of the sublime and the ridiculous. Luca Toni. Examples of various different styles of humour, or techniques for evoking humour or creating a humourous situation are listed below.

Francesco Toldo. . Rui Costa. For example, young children (of any background) particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal to more mature audiences. Daniel Passarella. A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context. Hidetoshi Nakata. The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.

Miguel Montuori. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy. Predrag Mijatovic. Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. Julinho. timing. Brian Laudrup. reframing.

Andrei Kanchelskis. hyperbole. Kurt Hamrin. metaphor. Giovanni Galli. similar to reality, but not real. Stefan Effenberg. appealing to feelings or to emotions.

Edmundo. some surprise, contradiction, ambiguity or paradox. Dunga. Exemplified by The Larry Sanders Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Angelo Di Livio. Character Driven, deriving humour from the way characters act in specific situations, without punchlines. Giancarlo De Sisti. Unintentional humour, that is, making people laugh without intending to (as with Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space).

Enrico Chiesa. Deliberate ambiguity and confusion with reality, often performed by Andy Kaufman. Luciano Chiarugi. Anti-humour