THE GREATEST MOMENT IN MARINERS HISTORY
Yeah, so I read Rick's Post about humour and wit last night and I was thinking about writing a post about it. It seems that I've been beaten to the punch by Puneet and Nathan, but I'm determined to get my two cents in, so here we are.
Basically, I spend all of my time looking for funny stuff.
What I've found is that I'm not very selective. I love some British humor (Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, P.G. Wodehouse, Monty Python) and I love some American humor (Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Steve Carrell, Will Ferrell sometimes). I fell into the trap of reading manga out of the desire to find things that make me Roll On the Floor Laughing My Freaking Abutt Off. And I found tons of good stuff (Saint Young Men is awesome look it up!).
After tons of research, I've found that true comedy is based almost completely on exaggeration and ridiculousness. The difference between British comedy and American Comedy is that British comedy exaggerates the normality of ridiculousness and that American comedy exaggerates the ridiculousness of normality. I wouldn't say that either is lesser than the other, they're just on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Maybe. I don't really analyze anything while I'm laughing, and when I'm trying to be funny I don't really plan it out. I think that everybody has a different sense of humor and that as long as it makes you laugh its good funny stuff. I love what Puneet would call intelligent humor, but I also love what he calls "Toilet Jokes" ie; Family Guy. (I must say, Family Guy is very often pretty intelligent though) But really, and I'll probably be scorned for the lack of analysis in this, I think that if its making you laugh, its funny. Unless its "Jackass 3D." That just says something about your taste. JK LOL HAHAHAHA THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HYPOCRITICAL.
Edit: RIP Leslie Nielson!
I voted this funny because you said it was serious.
ReplyDeleteJackass might have been a better example than family guy. I'm going to go change it now.
ReplyDeletei agree with your last sentence. what makes me really sad is the fact that jackass 3d was the top movie in america. ):
ReplyDeleteand don't say that you didn't have insight--i think you touched on the dividing fact between american and british humor which i think none of us had already touched on before, so you opened up another field within the discussion. :)
Where's the YouTube link?
ReplyDeleteat the top yo
ReplyDeleteThat was pretty good, but I clicked some of the links on the side and this was cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C29-gLZLt9s&feature=related
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