Dave Barry How To Make A Board Essay

Comedy is the entertainment consisting of jokes and funny sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. “How to Make a Board” is a simple how-to create a plain board that can be used for anything from killing spiders or a standing base. Dave Barry’s short story “How to Make a Board” is a high level of comedy that uses comic situations and comic characters choices to convey the idea that the simplest creations may be used for greater things. “How to Make a Board” is an example of high comedy because of it’s humorous narration and the easy flow of jokes and comments. This story includes comic situations, which the author uses to create humorous situations/characters such as, “I guess he shouldn’t have put Ronnie’s head in the vise, but it (Ronnie’s head) was no great prize to begin with, and you can bet Ronnie …show more content…
In the first example, the narrator uses in board in many strange and unusual ways,“I stand on it when i have to get socks out of the dryer and water has sat in our basement around the dryer for a few days, and has developed a pretty healthy layer of scum on top (plus heaven-only-knows- what new and predatory of life underneath).The author uses a grotesque situation dealing with an everyday activity and about how well the board works. This is a representation of high comedy because it is sarcastic and easy to follow the gross and funny situation. In addition, the narrator doesn’t quite understand the hobby of crafting,“This is why you need tools, to give your shop an attractive, non barren appearance, you should get several thousand dollars worth of tools and hang them from pegboard in a graceful way”The narrator is extremely sarcastic when it comes to his workshop. He wants to have all these tools and expensive products that he doesn't even know how to use, which isn't the greatest idea.Barry uses sarcastic comedic situations to display a high comedy short