Wednesday, November 30, 2016
WATER BOY BAILEY
Well, it is certainly not surprising that Bailey, our resident football player, chose to write on his favorite football centered film Waterboy. Bailey described the clip with the superiority theory and the incongruity theory. I think watching the entire movie would help build the comedic value of the clip, however, the clip made the comedic parts noticible. In particular, the waterboy who is not supposed to be good a football and is made fun of by the starting quarterback in return completely sacks the once mocking starter. The funny part on top of that is the quarterback then becomes the bumbling idiot that can not speak. Personally, I chuckled but I didn't find it particularly funny just because I feel really bad for people that get made fun of for something they can't help. Bailey good job you're still a waterboy at heart.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Instant Six Pack... Lead Blog post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N6SSdBSFIg
So attached above is a short clip of something that has always made me laugh. I stumbled upon this gem a while back, while I was milling through Instagram. 11 seconds of this have made me laugh more than any clip of The Office... so... sorry class, I guess my humor is just different. Initially, I thought to myself oh my gosh this is hysterical! But thanks to this class I have gone into some deeper thought trying to figure out why on earth I found something so absurd to be so comical.
For starters, the poor fat man B in the clip desperately seems to want to get abs and can not figure out how the big buff man A accomplished just that by a simple hit to the stomach. The fact that the large man is so frustrated could be funny. To the audience, he could appear too dumb to realize the basic fact that just hitting your stomach would not gain a six pack. This would fall under, of course, the Superiority Theory, the mass majority of people know that abs come from a lot of core exercises and dedication, not just a well-placed smack. I truly think his frustration at something so basic is futile to the comedic value of this clip.
However, the one key factor of clip, and to me, the most important part of the clip is the lovely laughter of the baby. This laughter is contagious! There are two main reasons as to why I think the laughter is the selling point of the entirety of the 11 second clip. First, even the baby seems to understand that the fat man will not be able to hit himself some abs. This follows the superiority Theory because not only does the audience know that the man is stupid (thus creating the first bit of laughter), but even a small baby understands and finds the grown adult inferior even though the man is way older. Technically because the man is older he is in return supposed to be wiser and know better than the toddler. Secondly, the baby's laugh gives the audience a reason to laugh. It is pretty much the canned laughter effect that makes some tv shows so funny. Because the laughter is there already the audience feels that they are allowed to laugh and should laugh thus creating laughter from the audience even if without it there would be now. This clip is funny to me regardless of my analysis, simply because of the little baby that throws it all together.
I hope everyone finds this clip as comical as I do or else it might be a little awkward in the classroom when we discuss the blog post! hahah hope y'all enjoyed.
So attached above is a short clip of something that has always made me laugh. I stumbled upon this gem a while back, while I was milling through Instagram. 11 seconds of this have made me laugh more than any clip of The Office... so... sorry class, I guess my humor is just different. Initially, I thought to myself oh my gosh this is hysterical! But thanks to this class I have gone into some deeper thought trying to figure out why on earth I found something so absurd to be so comical.
For starters, the poor fat man B in the clip desperately seems to want to get abs and can not figure out how the big buff man A accomplished just that by a simple hit to the stomach. The fact that the large man is so frustrated could be funny. To the audience, he could appear too dumb to realize the basic fact that just hitting your stomach would not gain a six pack. This would fall under, of course, the Superiority Theory, the mass majority of people know that abs come from a lot of core exercises and dedication, not just a well-placed smack. I truly think his frustration at something so basic is futile to the comedic value of this clip.
However, the one key factor of clip, and to me, the most important part of the clip is the lovely laughter of the baby. This laughter is contagious! There are two main reasons as to why I think the laughter is the selling point of the entirety of the 11 second clip. First, even the baby seems to understand that the fat man will not be able to hit himself some abs. This follows the superiority Theory because not only does the audience know that the man is stupid (thus creating the first bit of laughter), but even a small baby understands and finds the grown adult inferior even though the man is way older. Technically because the man is older he is in return supposed to be wiser and know better than the toddler. Secondly, the baby's laugh gives the audience a reason to laugh. It is pretty much the canned laughter effect that makes some tv shows so funny. Because the laughter is there already the audience feels that they are allowed to laugh and should laugh thus creating laughter from the audience even if without it there would be now. This clip is funny to me regardless of my analysis, simply because of the little baby that throws it all together.
I hope everyone finds this clip as comical as I do or else it might be a little awkward in the classroom when we discuss the blog post! hahah hope y'all enjoyed.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)