Jokes

They will make inside jokes that only the other person will get. There were multiple instances where one Latino/Hispanic man in his late fifties, Birdman, would bring food to help raise money for a friend in need. Other comedians would joke about how they had suffered adverse effects from Birdman’s cooking, however, they would encourage everyone to spend the money and buy a plate of the food. In other instances, they would imitate each other and talk about their bad jokes, but it would be…

have influential or upsetting things going on in their life and they use humor as an escape. Similarly, humor can function as a dictator for whether or not people are or will be getting along with each other. Meaning that if someone uses an off-color joke about a specific minority, some people might assume that the person would not get along with a person of that same minority. Similarly, Subject Y1 brought up the idea that the use of humor around another person can imply a certain level of…

stock of Endora, Iowa. She never wanted to be morbidly obese and depressed, unable to help her family, but after the death of her husband, she became a recluse, an unmoving member of her family of five. This once highly sought after beauty was now a joke to be spied on by small children and mocked by the entire small town community. Throughout the movie, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, both her and her children struggle with her current physical state in different ways. The children are forced to…

team, dies and certain coping methods are criticized by certain members of the team for taking the situation too lightly. Mary played by Mary Richards does not appreciate how Murray and the others are making a joke out of the situation, while they believe that they are just using the jokes as a coping method. The show is greatly influenced by the culture of the time period and certain moral standards are put into question and even challenged. The show aired in 1975, a time period where the…

making offensive jokes while others see it as a challenge to upset the most people. Now, most comedians don’t want to lose their jobs so they still don’t push the limits too far; that is, unless that's how they keep their job. South Park , Daniel Tosh, or Sarah Silverman are comedians and TV shows that keep on pushing the limits to make comedy have no limits. Comedy shouldn’t have limits because if they can make something that is as awful as something like…

improvisational comedians has no time to rehearse or to test out a joke to see if it’s funny or not An inanimate object is the heart and soul of prop comedy. Prop comedians use objects in humorous ways as part of their act. Prop comedians are looked down on by their fellow peers in the industry. They are actually consider the lowest form of comedians on the comedy spectrum because of their inability of being on stage with just jokes and a microphone. In actuality, prop comedians are some of the…

club because of his business minded approach. Raymond Lambert, the prodigy of Chris Gardner, opened All Jokes Aside in 1992. His idea for a club was based off the current scene for African-American comedians.…

fun of something to show or make a point. There are different types of humor and satire. The different types of humor are self, family, relationship, social, and political. Self-humor to me is when you make fun of yourself. It is when you make a joke about…

in which humor might be used. The timing must always be right or it could place a strain on a situation such as a relationship. The Benign Violation Theory says that, “A joke can fail in one of two ways: it can be too benign, and therefore boring, or it can be too much of a violation, and therefore offensive. To be funny, a joke has to land in that sweet spot between the two extremes” (McGraw, “Humor Code 2” par. 10). In other words, The Benign Violation Theory is that something is funny under…

Bill Cosby is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and author. He began his stand-up career in 1961 when he decided to leave his hometown, Temple, to book shows in New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Since then, Cosby has won numerous of prestigious awards for his standup comedy performances as well as his comedy television series. In October of 2014, sexual assault and rape allegations against Cosby became public when the first woman, Andrea Constand, spoke out…