FYW

Before reading this blog post, I had never heard of Key and Peele’s comedy videos. After watching a few of the videos that Ryan included as examples in his blog post, I totally see what he is talking about when he mentions how the superiority theory is used in their videos. The videos were very funny and I think they were a nice contrast to the types of comedy that we have been looking at in class. I feel like most examples of comedy depict incongruity theory that sometimes has a bit of the superiority theory intertwined in it. However, I think that Key and Peele did an excellent job of focusing on the superiority theory and incorporating small elements of absurdity into their skits. For example, in the video about the substitute teach mispronouncing the student’s names it seems absurd that someone would really think that those names were supposed to be pronounced that way, but I think that the sense of superiority that viewer feel over the substitu...

While I have never seen The Office before I totally know what Sonali is talking about when she mentions how popular the show is. I have heard many people make references to certain scenes or episodes, much like people do with vines. Furthermore, I know enough about the show to know that the inappropriate humor plays a key role in the plot of each episode. Another key component of each episode is the absurdity behind the comments that the characters in the show say. Based on these two key concepts behind the show, I agree with Sonali that incongruity theory is the most accurate theory to use to describe the humor of The Office.   The example that Sonali used to illustrate the incongruity theory was a perfect representation of the typical joke that is used in The Office. I think she did a good job of explaining how people find jokes, like the ones that Dwight makes, very funny. She described that while most the jokes that are made on the show are insensitive and in...

            Alyssa’s post was funny to me because I was able to read her reactions and comments towards twelve of the most iconic and quotable vines. What I loved the most about reading Alyssa’s blog post was the fact that I was able to determine what vine she was referring to based off of what she wrote about each one of them. Another factor that made reading her post so enjoyable was how she included some of her own humor and wit in her responses towards each of the vines. For example, in the eleventh vine reference that she uses she writes part of her response so that it will have the same sort of dialect as the person in the vine clip. By doing this she is continuing and adding to humor of the video clip because of how she chose to mock the guy speaking in the vine. In addition to adding to the humor Alyssa was able to go deeper and analyze some of the vine references she used so that the reader would have a b...

     I was particularly persuaded by the concept that not all forms of humor will be found and identified as funny to all people. The argument for this statement that I found most convincing was the idea that people who come from different backgrounds or have different morals perceive humor differently. For example, on one episode of Parks and Rec Chris Pratt makes a joke regarding Kim Kardashian’s sex tape (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-7bVZYy_ds). To some people this might be hilarious because it is mocking the unfortunate event that the Kardashians’ used to propel them into their fame. Others may find that a joke like this one is quite insensitive and, for some viewers, it might bring back memories of negative events that occurred in their own lives. Therefore this scene in Parks and Rec is very controversial type of joke and will be perceived in many different ways to different types of people.         ...