Comparison Of Santa Clarita Diet And Sharknado

Upon reflecting on what form of comedy makes me laugh, I continually came back to absurdist humor found in television and movies. Two instances of this humor would be Santa Clarita Diet and Sharknado. the first comedy makes use of two major forms of comedy, absurdist humor, and satire. The second movie Sharknado is predominantly absurdism throughout the entire movie. Each of the references are quite different but share many of the same themes at throughout their plots.

The plot of Santa Clarita Diet follows a mother who wakes up one day to find that she is a zombie that has a new craving for human flesh. The show often makes a normalization of cannibalism, often to a disturbingly funny effect. The strait man in the show is the husband of the zombie, who throughout his wife’s zombie antics begins to quite literally, lose his mind. The show makes common use of absurd humor. Some common devises used are puns, high subject-low treatment, unfunny jokes, and satire of zombie clichés, all used to hilarious effect. The puns used often have some refence or parallel between cannibalism, and sex, while this is disturbing it is quite funny. The high subject low-treatment is often

These two devises would be high-subject low-treatment and absurdity. I believe that these two forms of humor resonate with me because when I am watching television, I would like to escape reality. I often want to escape reality because the world is truly a dark and heavy place. Everywhere I turn people have truly selfish reasons for what the actions they commit. I believe that when watching one of these shows it, in its pure stupidity takes my mind off how dark the world I live in is. I believe this could also be part of the reason I do not like dramas or do not find many other genres entertaining. At the end of the day I do not need any more of the problems of the real world trying to invade my last refuge in