He thinks they’re all nice to him, but instead they just laugh at him and make fun of him which signalizes that he’s lonely. After Charlie laughs at a mentally retarded boy he grows furious at himself and shouts, “Shut up! Leave him alone! It’s not his fault he can’t understand!” (Pg. 237) I know this quote demonstrates loneliness because after he stops laughing at the boy he then knows that the boy getting laughed at use to be himself getting made fun of by his friends and other people.
This conflict between them causes comedy as there are misunderstandings, which are amusing and the audience feel superiority over the characters who do not understand some of each other’s references. At the start of the play when Rita refers to a poem about “fightin’ death an’ disease”, Frank automatically assumes its “Dylan Thomas” as Thomas’s poem about death is a part of the literary canon. However Rita replies it’s “Roger McGough’s” poem that she’s describing. This misunderstanding conveys to the audience that these characters would not conventionally associate with each other. It could be amusing to the audience as it highlights the absurdity of the situation.
Willy Russell uses superiority theory to engage the audience by creating comedy through the misfortune of others. The character of Frank is very cynical as he fails to see the good in anybody for a majority of the play and he believes that other people are motivated purely by self-interest. However, some people may argue that cruelty and cynicism are not at the heart of the comedy in the play and that the play could still be successful without these themes. One theme that could be seen as superior to cruelty and cynicism is culture and class because this theme causes confusion and misunderstanding between the two characters which as a result produces comedy. In the play ‘Educating Rita’ cruelty and cynicism feature a great deal.
When I saw previews of Funny People on TV, the advertising made me believe that it was going to be a comedy. This was the use of genre film. Most people expected it to be a comedy because of the previews, the title, the actors, and the history of Judd Apatow movies. However, after actually seeing the movie, I didn’t think it was a comedy so much. With George Simmons health issue and his personal life with his ex lover, him not being a good family man, and him falling off as a comedian, I thought it was more of a serious film with funny parts added to it.
In the late 1950s, he teamed up with Jack Burns, doing conventional stand-up routines. Carlin was a “straight, mainstream, suit-and-tie comic,” he created characters doing take-offs on the news and weather (Altschuler and Burns). By the end of the decade, Carlin felt like he was living two lives. He wanted to please the public, but he was also caught up in the cross-currents of the counter culture. As he began to take lots of drugs, he became more and more skeptical of American society and politics.
The reader second guesses their first opinion of him and sees a selfish side to him, as he is drunk at his cousins funeral with no regards to other peoples feelings. These are not the expected actions of a character whose sole purpose is to be comic. Act 2, Scene 3. Throughout this scene, Toby continues to show a different side to the funny personality he is assumed to have. There is something unpleasant about him and he is certainly not simply comic although he does provide some comedy.
He was always looking out for an opportunity to use his discoveries and beliefs in different ways. From helping his country in World War II to the invention of a crib for infants and toddlers, he implemented uses for his theories in ways that were uncommonly diverse. His enthusiasm for his own works led to a large following, but also invited much criticism. This is an examination of the variety and importance of his work. B.F. Skinner: His Life and Legacy B.F. Skinner called his Pennsylvania childhood as "warm and stable" (Skinner, 1976).
Brecht consistently uses comedy throughout his play to make a darker point. However, Gold strays from this approach and instead heightens and adds comical elements in an attempt to amuse his audience further. One must remember that Brecht’s original play – even though an entertaining play – was essentially used as a didactic tool and that people chose wether or not they wished to come and view the performance. Gold’s adaptation of the play was made in 1972 and therefore targeted a very different audience – television viewers. It is for this reason that Gold has twisted (and even added to) Bretch’s wry, black humour into high comedy – in a bid to appease and
Perhaps it’s because we’re unfamiliar with the situation and we aren’t aware how to handle it. However, many people don’t think about how it looks from the handicapped person’s point of view. “The person who smiles and jokes while in obvious physical pain is honored by all” (Murphy p. 20). Murphy is saying, as long as you make it comfortable for the person who isn’t handicapped you will be accepted by society more easily than someone who expresses their agonies. You cannot express your true feelings because it is uncomfortable and rude from the Normal’s standpoint.
by Mark Haddon Christopher Boone’s (the main character and narrator of the book) interpretations of the non-autistic world in many instances throughout the book were often quite humorous despite the fact that he himself did not understand humor. Christopher’s very explanation of how he deconstructs a joke and can identify why it could be funny to someone else but not to himself is as evocative as many of his other observations. The humor joke about the accountant, the logistician and the mathematician was particularly lost with me. I just didn’t get it. As I read the book I found myself questioning my understanding of some of the very things he questioned, such as metaphors, white lies and rhetorical questions.