Reflection Paper #3 Topic/Prompt Why do you think so many people laugh at jokes that put down other people? Can a joke be funny even if you find it distasteful? Have you used humor in this way yourself? Do you feel that it's appropriate? Explain why or why not.
Antonia Peacocke uses short parts of from different authors to shape her argument, agreeing with some and pointing fun at others. She recognizes some of the steps taken due to the fact that the content of some of the jokes are not for younger ears. She ends her article explaining that although she feels that there is more to the jokes on Family Guy than the offensive crudity that people like to point out she still finds that people still need to realize that some jokes do go too far and take to heart "the distinction between a shamelessly candid but insightful joke and a merely shameless joke".
It establishes comedy very early with some of the lower class people before the anticipated play of La Clorise. Another place that it establishes comedy with a low class character is in Ragueneau. But the majority of the comedy comes from the high class main character Cyrano. Throughout the story people are making wise cracks about his nose, but no one is able to defend themselves and back up what they say. Because people are making fun of his nose he is able to provide witty humor that makes the book become a comedy.
The Delivery Humor is an emotion that can differ among audiences. A joke as simple as a knock-knock joke can be outrageously funny to one individual but be seemingly stupid to another. Perhaps it’s not the joke itself rather the delivery. A good writer is not that different from a good comedian. It’s all in the delivery.
Bill Maher is a comedian. He also sells an invisible product, and that is comedy. Perhaps by doing what he does, it helps him see and understand others who do the same thing. Coarse throughout most of the film, Bill Maher makes his point proven time and time again. When he wasn’t referring to God as his imaginary childhood friend that promised security and purpose, he was exposing the blunt truth to true believers.
Comedy or Subliminal Messages Often times in comedic television subliminal messages underlie the punch lines. Television shows such as Family Guy feed unintentional messages into the subconscious that can unknowingly, shape and mold one’s views on a variety of topics. Anyone who has ever seen an episode of Family Guy can attest to the offensiveness, weirdness and extreme bluntness of the show. Nevertheless, those that are offended by the show usually do not see how it transforms real life situations into ones that Americans can humor themselves with. One article in particular, Antonia Peacocke’s, Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, speaks upon the overt offensiveness within the show.
What makes this more comedic is the fact that this is the first time she and Frank have met; these are the first words Rita says face to face with Frank. However, this may not be seen as comedic, in the sense that she really was angry that she couldn't get in because she was so eager to learn. The second aspect that makes the first three scenes comedic is through physical comedy. Physical comedy can also be known as slapstick, and generally involves one or more characters that is dependant upon visual, usually exaggerated, jokes and gestures through use of the body. An example of this in Educating Rita is where, at the start of Scene 2, Frank opens the door and sees Rita with a can of oil, oiling his door.
They teach us to not be offended by the slurs which make us feel embarrassed and hence we have attitudinal change. This is another reason why sitcoms are effective. Seinfeld usually has two or three stories in the story which are the main focuses. In the “Pez Dispenser” episode there are three stories, Elaine laughing at Jerry’s Pez dispenser in a musical performance, the second Kramer’s Cologne Idea and the third Jerry’s friend’s drug addiction. Throughout the three stories the conflict escalates and the confusion rises until the storylines meet together and are usually resolved in a hilarious way.
Seinfeld Comedy is a form of art that makes people laugh. But why do people laugh at a situation or jokes? The episodes of Seinfeld were extremely successful in capturing moments of ordinary life and allowing the audience to connect in some way to their situations. The episodes allowed the audience to laugh at the character’s embarrassing gestures and actions. We compare our actions to those of Jerry’s, George’s or Kramer’s to what we would do in our lives.
While the Oxford Online Dictionary defined humor as the ability to amuse people; in Cambridge Online Dictionary, humor is “the ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the quality of being funny”. Therefore, humor can be understood as something funny and amusing. Mudler and Nijholt (2004) see humor as where people laugh at perceived inferiors or ugly individuals; or when someone presents something irrelevantly to the surrounding context and creates inappropriateness. These inferiors cause laughter, because the perceivers feel joy in being superior to them. To larger extent, humor depends on the people