Comment to Lead Blog (Will)

I don’t think that I have ever seen Sacha Baron Cohen’s videos in particular, but I have seen videos that are similar to his style of comedy. In the videos that I have seen of people disguising themselves and asking strangers questions they have never been able to keep a straight face. Sacha Baron Cohen’s ability to keep a straight face while he is asking these people ridiculous questions and convincing them to do very inappropriate things makes his videos much funnier than other people’s attempts at this type of comedy. Additionally, I believe that based off the examples that Will gave Sacha Baron Cohen is able to make the interviews more comedic because of caliber that he is able to achieve in his videos. He is able to interview people who are very famous and well known in their profession, which makes the interviews even funnier because Sacha Baron Cohen manages to get very respectable people flustered and confused. This is how the superiority theory fits into his style of comedy.  I completely agree with Will that the superiority and incongruity theory apply to every aspect of these types of comedic skits. After watching one of the Sacha Baron Cohen videos, I quickly noticed how he is able to intertwine the two theories to optimize the humor of his interviews. The questions that he asks are so completely absurd and random that we can’t help but laugh at the bizarre tone of the interview. Lastly, I find it very interesting that Will made the statement that at the beginning of Sacha Baron Cohen’s interview the experts that he is interviewing feel far superior to him because of how stupid his questions seem. However, towards the end of the interview, the superiority shifts from the expert to Cohen. By the end of the interview, Cohen is able to ask the experts questions that are so dumb that they don’t know how to respond to them, making the viewer and Cohen feel superior to the expert.