Humour and Games

Scott Dejong, Marc Lajeunesse & Andrei Zanescu
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This podcast explores how we design and experience Humour in Games. Produced and Hosted by Scott Dejong, Marc Lajeunesse and Andrei Zanescu. Sponsored by @TAG_News

  1. FEB 23

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Darshana Jayemanne and Cameron Kunzelman

    On this episode we speak with Darshana Jayemanne and Cameron Kunzelman on their chapter “Cybernetic Irony: Racial Humour from Mecha-Hitler to Nuclear Gandhi.” We chat about different cultural approaches to game humour, cybernetic irony, and the colonial roots of racialized humour in games.

    47 min

  2. FEB 17

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Mateusz Felczak

    On this episode we speak with Mateusz Felczak on his chapter “Emergence and Ephemerality of Humour During Live Coverage of Large-Scale eSports Events.” We talk about the difference between narrative game humour and live esports broadcasts, and how audience engagement changes the shape of humour.

    40 min

  3. FEB 9

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Agata Zarzycka

    On this episode we speak with Agata Zarzycka on her chapter “Ridiculing the Player: Live-Action Visualisations of Game Experience in YouTube Parody Videos as an Ambivalent Strategy of Self-Fashioning.” We talk about the humorous contrast between casual and serious play, remediated game humour, and clashes between mechanical and social play elements.

    27 min

  4. FEB 2

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Sebastian Möring

    On this episode we speak with Sebastian Möring about his chapter “Making Fun of Tetris: Humour in Parodies of a Computer Game Classic.” We talk about paradoxes, processing the strange, and the evocative power of parody in game design.

    33 min
  5. Season 3 Episode 8 - Filip Jankowski

    JAN 26

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Filip Jankowski

    On this episode we speak with Filip Jankowski on his chapter “Sorry, You Had Won: Satirical French Digital Games Responding to National Sociopolitical Crisis (1984 - 1986). " We talk about the history of French digital games, arcades, and personal computers in France, and the relationship between satire and social politics.

    30 min
  6. Season 3 Episode 7 - Alesha Serada

    JAN 19

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Alesha Serada

    On this episode we speak with Alesha Serada about their chapter “Red Comrades Save the Galaxy: Early Russian Adventure Games and the Tradition of Anecdote.” We look at the history of post-soviet humour, the long lost format of the anecdote, and how they stack up to memes and NFTs as a new basis for humour in games.

    29 min
  7. Season 3 Episode 6 - Wyatt Moss-Wellington

    10/13/2025

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Wyatt Moss-Wellington

    On this episode we speak with Wyatt Moss-Wellington on his article with Paul Martin, titled “Benign Trials, Vexing Violations: Reading Humour in Puzzle Games.” We learn about benign violation theory and the role of psychological distance in creating humour out of tragedy and puzzles. “Games all inherently have benign violations written into them, in that they’re forms of play that offer continuous attempts to frustrate one’s abilities, and resolving this stands in the way of progress. [...] Platform genres are unusually happy to frustrate players in their sense of progress [...] so they have a particular structure of threat to motor and cognitive skills…” - Wyatt Moss-Wellington

    36 min
  8. Season 3 Episode 5 - Manuel Garin

    10/12/2025

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Manuel Garin

    Manuel Garin speaks to us about his book chapter “On Nintendo’s Visual Humour: Slapstick Cinema and Comic Theatre in Super Smash Bros.” We chat about sight gags across film and games, slapstick, and consider the relationship between Buster Keaton and Mario.  “[Nintendo] essentially does a comedy show. I think their marketing strategy is that, and it's super intelligent in my opinion, because it broadens audiences…” - Manuel Garin

    32 min
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This podcast explores how we design and experience Humour in Games. Produced and Hosted by Scott Dejong, Marc Lajeunesse and Andrei Zanescu. Sponsored by @TAG_News

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  • Creator
    Scott Dejong, Marc Lajeunesse & Andrei Zanescu
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Scott Dejong, Marc Lajeunesse & Andrei Zanescu
  • Show Website
    Humour and Games