What Makes You Laugh?
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What Makes You Laugh?
1. Exaggeration may be applied to physical, mental, or personal characteristics or situations
ExaggerationPhysical characteristics
Caricature/Grotesqueness--Exaggerated or distorted features
Caricatures: Exaggerated personalities
Caricature—exaggerated personalities
• Bad kids
Nerd
Exaggeration—exaggerated situation
HyperboleExaggerated language—saying more than what
is meant
Hyperbole
Understatement—saying less than what is meant
2. Incongruity
• Human beings have a built in sense or order, and if what we expect is does not occur, we laugh
• For example, when things are out of time, out of place, or out of character Out of character
Incongruity—Out of Character
Incongruity--Out of time
Incongruity--Out of place
Incongruity--Out of Place
Incongruity--Out of place
The Unexpected-not what is expected
Incongruity--the Unexpected
• "Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed.
• "The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: ‘My friend is dead! What can I do?’ The operator says: ‘Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.’
• "There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: ‘OK, now what?’"
Incongruity: the unexpected
The Unexpected—I bet you didn’t know that Spongebob shopped at Walmart?
Reversal—the tables are turned
Reversal
Irrelevant—when something unimportant is considered highly important
Irrelevant
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3. Anticipation—looking forward to a laugh
Anticipation
Anticipation
4. Ambiguity—double meanings (such as mistaken identities, ruses and disguises)
Ambiguity—double meanings
Ambiguity-mistaken identities/disguises
Ambiguity—word puns
Ambiguity-word pun
5. Recognition—when we know something that a character does not
That apple has been rubbed with a poison ivy leaf!
Recognition—audience knows there is no baby in that blanket!
Recognition-we know what he is grilling!
6. Protection—abusive actions can be funny when we know they are not really happening
7. Comic Relief—when emotions lead to a burst of laughter to relieve tension
Comic relief—being stranded on an island is no laughing matter!
8. Superiority--we laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at being
superior to them
Superiority—my hair has never looked that bad!
Superiority—one more reason for not using the Walmart scooters!