Good Humor

Laughter is the best medicine. Making someone laugh is one of the greatest feelings in the world, whenever I make someone laugh it brightens up my day. Brian Regan understands this. Brian Regan is one of the most creative, and confident people I know, and is a huge influence on who I am as a person. Brian Regan has a very unique act. He makes jokes about normally mundane things and makes them seem surreal. You would think that to make a joke about eating Fig Newtons funny, you would have to be…

feelings for. Using hyperbole and metaphors such as “And as she recedes into the distance, I will be left standing there like an ellipsis. Two little bulletholes through my heart” Nestruck creates an overly dramatic and thus comical situation. Another good example of his hyperbole and metaphors is “”My, how I savoured those exclamation points, each one echoing throughout his entire body.” Of course, the exclamation…

Slapstick comedy in films started around 1915 when the famous Keystone Cops silent movies were made. The silent era saw the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton who starred in some of the more memorable films such as “The Tramp” and “The General”. Slapstick comedy is an extreme form of comedy normally involving forms of physical acts by the actors, such as being poked in the eyes or pulling one around by his ears. In the 1930s slapstick was dominated by “The Three Stooges” and Laurel and…

Living ironically is as problematic as Wampole says. One of Wampole's objections to ironic living is how with this new technological age we create a distance between ourselves and those around us. Wampole has us to question whether we are sincere about our actions or words when we interact with people. "Do I communicate primarily through inside jokes and pop culture references? What percentage of my speech is meaningful? How much hyperbolic language do I use?"(Wampole) I believe most of the…

In Alain de Button’s Status Anxiety, he argues that humorists say things that others refuse to say. Therefore, he ranks humorists as a vital function in society. He could not be more accurate. Humorists make topics enjoyable and easily comprehensible and pave the way for future discussions on sensitive topics. Humorists make controversial topics entertaining. An example of this would be Saturday Night Live’s Cold Opens on the recent Presidential debates. These parodic shorts make bland,…

The author Tina Fey in her excerpt Bossypants, uses comic irony, situational irony, and the incongruity theory of humor to reveal that negative experiences can result in positive outcomes. Throughout the story, comic irony was most evident in the people’s dialects. For instance when Tina Fey refers to the people that ask her about her scar just because “ it’s so beautiful” as “disgusting.” Usually when somebody sympathizes with you and calls a mark on your body beautiful you are grateful,…

Over fall break I went to see one of my favorite comedians, Bo Burnham, at Lincoln Center. I have been a fan of Bo Burnham for a couple years now so I was expecting his normal, crude sense of humor. Although he delivered, he also added in some social issues to his acts in a blunt yet refreshing way. Bo Burnham is known for his satirical songs that focus on touchy subjects such as race, gender, human sexuality, sex, and religion, and this particular performance was full of such comedic songs and…

Someone with a good sense of humour often makes jokes in every occasion. However, some people might find the jokes offensive. Looking at the day two events, the joke “I am stuck with her” was not necessarily intimidating. The preceptor might have wanted to be friendly with the student by making some jokes. According to Brooks and Bitterly (2017), jokes in the workplace can help the worker to be more productive. In another hand, the preceptor should have been more careful when making a joke with…

Satire is the 'safest' way to contradict another person’s statements/ actions/ beliefs through use of humour, irony, exaggeration, and ridicule. Satire highlights key topical issues in society and identifies their flaws. It inspires some, and it'll offend some. Such is life. It's not easy being the perpetrator of a damaging ideal, only to have a mirror held up with the ugliest parts of our humanity reflected back. Thank You for smoking, released in theatres March 2006, is dark satire disguised…

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing” (Mark Twain). The controversy, however, is within how humor is conveyed or perceived to be. Alain De Botton, a philosophical writer, deems that humorists hold “impunity” in their messages that underlie their humor; impunity is something exempt from punishment. I consider that humor is used to veil the serious meaning that is proven such in political cartoons and the article “Humor conveys ‘Me No Terrorist’s’ serious message” (Elder). Conversely, people may…