The Good Humor Party ( pl, Partia Dobrego Humoru), is a

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organization, founded in

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on 28 June 2001 by Polish cartoonist and journalist

Szczepan Sadurski Szczepan Sadurski is a polish satirist, cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist, leader of the Partia Dobrego Humoru (Good Humor Party). Early life and works He was born in 1965 in Lublin, and graduated from art secondary school (1985). He has p ...

, during the Good Humor Festival in

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

. It claims to have some 3,000 members all around the world, many of them satirists.

Goals and membership

The goal of the Good Humor Party is to make people happy. The membership fee is stated as "three wide smiles a day". The party cooperates with people and organizations with similar goals, supports entertainment initiatives and finds humor in current affairs. A party symbol is Happy Skyscraper (Polish: Wesoły Wieżowiec), a model of a tall building bearing the party's logo. Those who wish to join the party are asked to download, construct and then photograph a model skyscraper alongside a well-known landmark in their town or city and then email it to the Good Humor Party. The first Happy Skyscraper was placed in

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on 10 October 2012. Since then, model skyscrapers have been photographed in a variety of well-known locations, including

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, and

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Government and political stance

Good Humor Party claims to have its own informal government and ambassadors, including in the United States. It is active on social media and has an e-magazine. Although the party describes itself as nonpolitical, in the 2012

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, it supported the performance artist and presidential candidate

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References

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External sources

Partia Dobrego Humoru websiteImages of funny skyscrapers at Newsy (text in Polish)
Cultural organisations based in Poland Joke political parties in Poland Culture in Gdańsk