A world without comedy would be similar to a butter knife, it's dull, useless, and achieves very little. The world would be filled with impolite and obnoxious people. Comedy helps keep the flow of the world going. It allows people to laugh at one another and shrug off rude comments at the same time. It also creates a casual environment. Comedy is everywhere and it helps the world be a little less boring. Comedy can be found on televisions, the internet, and books, only to name a few. Comedy creates the illusion that things will get better; however, comedy gets better by making the situation worse. There are many types of comedy and some are: satire, farce, and one-liners. The definition of comedy is any story or event of a light, humorous nature that has a happy ending. One place where there was a reoccurring theme of comedy was in the movie Pure Luck. Three characteristics of comedy found in the movie were that logic and standard solutions do not always work in comical plots, comedy focuses on the irregularities in an otherwise orderly world, and comical characters consider the abnormal to be very normal.
One repeating characteristic of comedy throughout the movie is that logical and standard solutions do not always work in comical plots. For example, Dr. Monosoff suggests that they use an accountant, Eugene Proctor, to help find Mr. Highsmith’s daughter. The reason they pick Eugene is because Dr. Monosoff believes that Eugene and Valerie Highsmith have one thing in common: coincident misfortune syndrome. This means that Eugene and Valerie are so misfortunate that they will coincidentally meet. This idea was told to the detective, Raymond Campanella, and he thought that this was the most absurd thing he’s ever hea...
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...helicopter and this caused the pilot to land. Coincidentally, this is close to where Valerie is. These are all examples of how comical characters consider the abnormal to be very normal.
In conclusion, normal solutions don’t work in comical plots, abnormal things are normal to the characters, and comedy focuses on the irregularities in an otherwise orderly world. Pure Luck does a great job of portraying comedy. It made a lot of people laugh throughout the movie and that is the point of comedy. The world would be a boring place without comedy because there would be no entertainment, but at the same time comedy can get very personal with the use of satire, which can cause problems. Nothing is taken seriously, nothing is bad, and everyone wins in the end in the world of comedy. For the most part, comedy is a good thing and it helps keep the world in motion.
Steve Almond’s “Funny is the New Deep” talks of the role that comedy has in our current society, and most certainly, it plays a huge role here. Namely, through what Almond [Aristotle?] calls the “comic impulse”, we as a people can speak of topics that would otherwise make many of uncomfortable. Almond deems the comic impulse as the most surefire way to keep heavy situations from becoming too foreboding. The comic impulse itself stems from our ability and unconscious need to defend and thus contend with the feeling of tragedy. As such, instead of rather forcing out humor, he implies that humor is something that is not consciously forced out from an author, but instead is more of a subconscious entity, coming out on its own. Almond emphasizes
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Delicatessen tells the story of a post-apocalyptic world where many people are starving and are forced to take extreme measures to survive. The film fallows a group of people living in an apartment building run by the butcher who owns it. To survive this group of people have resulted to cannibalism. The dark subject matter in the film may prevent some viewers from appreciating the comedy hidden within; however, it is also what gives this film a unique feel and make the comedic elements have a greater impact on most viewers. Dark Comedies demonstrate the importance of balancing humor and seriousness in order provide a truly enjoyable film.
Humor and war are two words that typically do not belong together in the same sentence, or even in the same text, but the concept of humor during (and following) war is addressed in the documentary, The Last Laugh (Pearlstein, 2016). The documentary was directed by Ferne Pearlstein and produced by Ferne Pearlstein, Robert Edwards, Amy Hobby, Anne Hubbell, and Jan Warner. The Last Laugh focuses on the Holocaust as a topic of humor, and there is great insight on the topic from filmmakers, comedians, and Holocaust survivors. Near the beginning of The Last Laugh, Sarah Silverman mentions “comedy puts light on to darkness and darkness cannot live where there is light. They (Holocaust memories) stay in this dark and in a taboo place if they are not
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Humor has been the source of entertainment throughout history. Today humor is practiced in movies, plays, songs, television shows and radio. Humor has brought fame and fortune to those who have mastered its power.
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comedies give people an opportunity to look at humor in life and laugh at it. Comedies usually
There are many characteristics that make up a comedy. Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what set the comedic story apart from the tragedy. Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and dismay may appear within the story, there always seems to be the classic ending of “…and they all lived happily ever after…” Comedies capture the viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the characters in the story. Each character has their own essence, to which they pertain a flaw of some sorts, which the audience can relate to. With the relation to characters there is defiantly a certain interest that is grabbed by the actors, which sucks the audience into the show.