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    Unit 16 Comedy and Humor

    Objectives

    Students will be able to:

    1. share opinions and knowledge about various types of humor;

    2. be familiar with some kinds of comedy ;

    3. appreciate brief movie reviews.

    16 A What a scream!

    Work in groups of three. One of you should look at Task 14 (Page 79), one at Task 29 (Page

    85), and one at Task 36(Page 88). Read these jokes and make sure you understand them.

    Then take turns telling them. Question: Which joke interests you the most?

    With the reference words, Teacher helps Students identify different kinds of humor. After telling

    the jokes in the textbooks, the Students are expected to tell some jokes to their parterners.

    types of humor description examples

    adviser

    The comic adviser is a type of

    epigram that originated with

    the most famous witticism inthe history of Punch.

    I. Advice to persons about to marry: Don't.

    II. Advice to motorists: Never park with

    your back wheels on a pedestrian.

    antonymism

    An antonymism is humorwhich derives its effect from

    contrasting two words or

    phrases of opposite meaning.

    I. The girl with a future avoids a man with apast.

    II. Mark Twain said, "There is no end to the

    laws and no beginning to the execution of

    them".

    blunder

    The blunder is wit based on a

    person who makes a mistakewhich in turn makes them look

    foolish. There are a number of

    types of blunders. Some arebased on mistaken identities of

    people and derive their punch

    from the failure to observedistinctions between peopledue to surrounding

    circumstances. Some blunders

    are based on situations wherean individual rescues

    themselves with wit after doing

    something stupid.

    I. One fellow turned to his neighbor at a

    large party and said, "I made a terriblemistake just now. I told one of the men here

    that the host must be a cheap tightwad, and

    he turned out to be the host". His neighborreplied, "Oh, you mean my husband".

    II. At a social gathering a musician was

    conversing with an aging dowager who had

    been assisting him financially. Without

    thinking he asked his backer how old she

    was. "Why do you wish to know?" she

    countered. "My dear", the musician

    answered without a moments hesitation, " I

    merely wanted to know at what age a

    woman is most fascinating."

    blunting

    Blunting is an ancient device

    that was commonly employed

    in the classic dramas of

    Little Bobbie asked his mother to put some

    iodine

    on his bleeding knee. "Howdid you cut yourself?" she asked. "Oh, it

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    Greece, its histrionic effects

    were studied and exploited. As

    a technique in modern humor it pretends to dull the edge of

    dire news while really

    sharpening it.

    was nothing," he said. "I was climbing on

    the kitchen ladder and I fell down."

    "Kitchen ladder? What were you doing onthe kitchen ladder?" "I was trying to get the

    glue." "Glue? What did you want the glue

    for?" "So I could fix the vase in the livingroom." "The vase? Did you break thevase?" "No, the ball broke it." "The ball?"

    "Yes. After it broke the mirror, it bounced

    off and hit the vase." "Were you playingball in the living room?" "Oh, No. We were

    playing in the yard and the ball broke

    through the big bay window. Now, Mother,

    will you please hurry and put some iodineon my knee. The boys are waiting for me."

    boner

    The boner is a humorous

    device and a category of theslip. Boners are short and

    pointed mistakes that have an

    amusing effect. They are thereplies made by school

    children or college students to

    an oral or written question.

    I. Teacher to pupil: Tell me two

    pronouns.

    Pupil: Who!? Me!?

    II. A science graduate asks, Why

    does it work? An engineering

    graduate asks, How does it

    work? A business graduate asks,

    How much will it cost? A media

    studies graduate asks, Do you

    want fries with that?

    catch tale

    The Catch tale is a funny storywhose name derives from its

    essential catch nature, the

    deception of the reader

    constituting the basis of itshumor. The descriptive catch

    tale usually misleads the reader

    by implying somethingdreadful ending with a sudden

    trivial denouement.

    She laid the still white form beside thosethat had gone before. No groan, no sob

    forced its way from her heart. Then

    suddenly she let forth a cry that pierced the

    stillness of the place, making the air vibratewith a thousand echoes. It seemed to come

    from her very soul. Twice the cry was

    repeated, then all was quiet again. Shewould lay another egg tomorrow.

    epigram

    An epigram is a short & cleversaying referring to a general

    group of persons or things.

    Epigrams are mostly satire and

    deal with evils and follies ofmankind. There are two basic

    types of epigrams, wordplay

    and thoughtplay. All epigramscontain both, but generally one

    or the other dominates.

    I. "The world should make peace first andthen make it last".

    II. When you are right, no one remembers;

    when you are wrong, no one forgets.

    exaggerism This type of comic sayingamusingly overstates the

    special features, defects or

    peculiarities of a person orthing.

    I. The kitchen was so small the mice had towalk on their hind legs.

    II. She is so industrious, when she has

    nothing to do she sits and knits her brows.

    extended proverb

    Of all twisted proverbs themost extensive class is the

    I. Money talks, but it has few intimates. II.Talk is cheap, except when you hire a

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    extended proverb. This is theproverb to which a clever tag is

    added, thereby changing aserious saying into an amusing

    one.

    lawyer.

    irony Irony is the use of words toexpress something other thanand especially the opposite of

    the literal meaning. The mostcommon form of irony is the

    expression by which a person

    says the opposite of what they

    mean and the listener believesthe opposite of what is said.

    The tired store clerk had pulled downblanket after blanket until only one was left

    on the shelf. Then the customer remarked,

    "I don't really want to buy today, I am onlylooking for a friend." "Well, Madam," said

    the clerk, "I'll take down the last one if you

    think he's in it."

    recovery The comic recovery is acombination of blunder andwit. A person commits a slip in

    speech but rescues himself by a

    quick correction or explanation.

    There's the story about the grocery shopper

    who was making a scene because hewanted to buy a half head of lettuce. The

    cashier, frustrated, ran back to the manager,

    not knowing that the customer was rightbehind. "Some idiot wants to buy this half

    head of lettuce" he said, then noticing the

    customer. "And this gentleman wants to

    buy the other half."

    1. Teacher introduces proper nouns of comedy category.

    There are many types of comedy. Main forms include black comedy, which has comedy as a

    defense in a horrifying situation, satirical comedy, which basically mocks social, moral, and

    political problems, romantic comedy, which, of course, has romance, farce , which

    has stupid topics, exaggerated characters, craziness, and lastly, the comedy of manners, which

    shows the passionate plots of the high upper class. As you can see, comedy varies, however, most

    comedy that is seen on TV is situational comedy, where the comedy is in whatever situation the

    stars are in. Another type of comedy seen on TV is standup. Many famous comedians such as Jim

    Carrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart (of The Daily Show), got their

    start as stand-up comedians, who brought their talent to the small screen.

    2. Students do Exercise A. Teacher encourages them to discuss the questions.

    Whats the funniest movie youve ever seen?

    Whats the funniest movie youve seen recently? What was your favorite funny scene?

    Types of Comedies:

    Comedies usually come in two general formats: comedian-led (with well-timed gags, jokes, or

    sketches) and situation-comedies that are told within a narrative. Both comedy elements may

    appear together and/or overlap. Comedy hybrids commonly exist with other major genres, such as

    musical-comedy, horror-comedy, and comedy-thriller. Comedies have also been classified in

    varioussubgenres, such as romantic comedy, crime/caper comedy, sports comedy, teen or coming-

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    of-age comedy, social-class comedy, military comedy, fish-out-of-water comedy, and gross-out

    comedy. There are also many different kinds, types, or forms of comedy, including:

    (1) SlapstickSlapstick was predominant in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective,

    and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences in metropolitan areas. The term

    slapstick was taken from the wooden sticks that clowns slapped together to promote audience

    applause.

    This is primitive and universal comedy with broad, aggressive, physical, and visual action,

    including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags (e.g., a

    custard pie in the face, collapsing houses, a fall in the ocean, a loss of trousers

    or skirts, runaway crashing cars, people chases, etc). Slapstick often required

    exquisite timing and well-honed performance skills. It was typical of the films

    of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, W. C. Fields, The Three Stooges, the

    stunts of Harold Lloyd in Safety Last (1923), and Mack Sennett's silent era

    shorts (for example, the Keystone Kops). Slapstick evolved and was reborn in

    the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s (see further below).

    More recent feature film examples include the comedic mad chase for treasure film

    by many top comedy stars in Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    (1963), French actor/director Jacques Tati's mostly dialogue-free Mr. Hulot's

    Holiday (1953, Fr.), the Blake Edwards series of Pink Panther films with Peter

    Sellers as bumbling Inspector Clouseau (especially in the second film of the series,

    A Shot in the Dark (1964) with Herbert Lom as Clouseau's slow-burning boss and

    Burt Kwouk as his valet and martial arts judo-specialist), and Jim Carrey in Ace

    Ventura, Pet Detective (1993) and The Mask (1994). Cartoons are the quintessential

    form of slapstick, i.e., the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, and others.

    (2) Screwball

    Screwball comedies, a kind of romantic comedy films, was predominant from the mid-1930s to

    the mid-1940s. The word 'screwball' denotes craziness, eccentricity, ridiculousness, and erratic

    behavior.

    These films combine farce, slapstick, and the witty dialogue of more

    sophisticated films. In general, they are light-hearted, frothy, often

    sophisticated, romantic stories, commonly focusing on a battle of the sexes in

    which both co-protagonists try to outwit or outmaneuver each other. They

    usually include visual gags (with some slapstick), wacky characters, identity

    reversals (or cross-dressing), a fast-paced improbable plot, and rapid-fire, wise-

    cracking dialogue and one-liners reflecting sexual tensions and conflicts in the

    blossoming of a relationship (or the patching up of a marriage) for an attractive

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    couple with on-going, antagonistic differences (such as in The Awful Truth (1937)). Some of the

    stars often present in screwball comedies included Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck,

    Claudette Colbert, Jean Arthur, Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, William

    Powell, and Carole Lombard.

    The couple is often a fairly eccentric, but well-to-do female interested in romance and a generally

    passive, emasculated, or weak male who resists romance, such as in Bringing Up Baby (1938),

    or a sexually-frustrated, humiliated male who is thwarted in romance, as in Howard Hawks' farce I

    Was a Male War Bride (1949). The zany but glamorous characters often have contradictory desires

    for individual identity and for union in a romance under the most unorthodox, insane or

    implausible circumstances (such as in Preston Sturges' classic screwball comedy and battle of the

    sexes The Lady Eve (1941)). However, after a twisting and turning plot, romantic love usually

    triumphs in the end. (See more discussion later in this section.)

    (3) Black or Dark Comedy

    These are dark, sarcastic, humorous, or sardonic stories that help us examine otherwise

    ignored darker serious, pessimistic subjects such as war, death, or illness. Two of the greatest

    black comedies ever made include the following: Stanley Kubrick's Cold War classic satire from a

    script by co-writer Terry Southern, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop

    Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)that spoofed the insanity of political and military

    institutions with Peter Sellers in a triple role (as a Nazi scientist, a British major, and

    the US President), and Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970), an irreverent, anti-war

    black comedy set during the Korean War. Another more recent classic black comedy

    was the Coen Brothers' violent and quirky story Fargo (1996) about a pregnant

    Midwestern police chief (Oscar-winning Frances McDormand) who solves a 'perfect

    crime' that went seriously wrong.

    (4) Farce or Parody - also Satire and Spoof

    Farce. The identifying features of farce are zaniness, slapstick humor, and

    hilarious improbability. The characters of farce are typically fantastic or absurd and usually far

    more ridiculous than those in other forms of comedy. At the same time, farcical plots are often full

    of wild coincidences and seemingly endless twists and complications. Elaborate comic intrigues

    involving deception, disguise, and mistaken identity are the rule. Examples of the genre include

    Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, the "Pink Panther" movies, and the films of the Marx Brothers

    and Three Stooges, including:

    the Marx Brothers' satiric anti-war masterpiece Duck Soup

    (1933) with anarchic humor

    the western spoof Cat Ballou (1965)

    Woody Allen's Japanese monster film parody What's Up, Tiger

    Lily? (1966)

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    the 'genre' films of Mel Brooks (the quasi-western Blazing Saddles (1974), the quasi-

    horror film Young Frankenstein (1974), the inventive Hitchcock spoof/rip-off High

    Anxiety (1977), the Star Wars (1977)spoof Spaceballs (1987), and his swashbuckler

    send-up Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993))

    Herbert Ross' Play It Again, Sam (1972) poked fun at Woody Allen as an insecure

    nebbish-hero who worshipped an imaginary, trench-coated, archetypal tough-guy

    detective (a la Humphrey Bogart)

    Silver Streak (1976) - a comic thriller parody of Alfred Hitchcock's 'train' pictures, with

    Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor (their best film together) onboard the Silver Streak from

    LA to Chicago

    Neil Simon's scripts for The Cheap Detective (1978) and Murder By Death (1978)

    spoofed Agatha Christie detective films

    Jim Abrahams' and the Zuckers' revolutionary comedy Airplane! (1980) - a sophomoric

    parody of the earlier disaster series of Airport (1970) films and the original Zero Hour

    (1957); their The Naked Gun (1988) series parodied TV cop shows, and Top Secret!

    (1984) ridiculed Cold War agents and espionage spy films (and Elvis Presley films);

    Abrahams' military comedy Hot Shots! (1991) was a genre parody/spoof of Top Gun

    (1986), while Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) parodied Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

    in The Freshman (1990), Marlon Brando (as Carmine Sabatini) poked fun - with brilliant

    parody - at his own characterization of Don Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

    Carl Reiner's Fatal Instinct (1993) spoofed suspense thrillers and murder mysteries such

    asBasic Instinct (1992)

    Gene Quintano's Loaded Weapon I (1993) made fun of Lethal Weapon (1987) as well as

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991),Basic Instinct (1992), and Wayne's World (1992)

    the Austin Powers films (1997, 1999, 2002) - parodies of the James Bond 007 films

    the Scream films (1996, 1997, 2000) - spoofs of slasher horror films

    Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black (1997) - a sci-fi comedy farce based on a comic book

    series that poked fun at alien invasion films, with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as

    government agents (with camaraderie similar to Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the

    Lethal Weapon series) battling about 1500 Earth-dwelling, other-worldly extra-terrestrials

    in the New York area; a sequel appeared in 2002

    Galaxy Quest (1999), about the cast (including Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, and Sigourney

    Weaver) of a 70s sci-fi TV series in reruns, this was a parody of sci-fi TV, Star Trek itself,

    and cultish "Trekkie" activities

    director Nora Ephron's romantic comedy You've Got Mail (1998) updated and paid

    homage to Ernst Lubitsch's classic The Shop Around the Corner (1940), with leads Tom

    Hanks and Meg Ryan in their third teaming (after their previous hit with Ephron -

    Sleepless in Seattle (1993)), replacing James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as feuding-

    by-email Manhattan bookstore owners

    Last Action Hero (1993) - a spoof of action films

    3. Individual Work: Which comedy are you interested in? Please describe it to us. Is it slapstick

    or screwball? Black comedy or farce?

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    Information about some famous comedians:

    James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (bornJanuary 17,1962) is a double Golden Globe-winning

    Canadian-Americanactorandcomedian. He is known for his manic, slapstickperformances in

    comedy films such asAce Ventura: Pet Detective; Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; The Mask;

    Dumb and Dumber;Me, Myself & Irene; Fun with Dick and Jane;The Cable Guy; Liar Liar; and

    Bruce Almighty. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The

    Truman Show,Man on the Moon, andEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He also provides

    the voice for Horton in the animated feature filmHorton Hears a Who!, released March 14, 2008.

    The film was his first animated feature role.

    Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian, radio host, TV

    personality, game show host, and author. She is one of only ten individuals who have won an

    Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the

    second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being

    Hattie McDaniel). She has won two Golden Globe Awards and two Saturn Awards for her

    performances in Star Trek Generations and Ghost.

    Michael John Myers was born in 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario. His television career really

    started in 1988, when he joined"Saturday Night Live" (1975), where he spent six seasons. He

    brought to life many memorable characters, such as Dieter and Wayne Cambell. His major movies

    includeWayne's World (1992), Wayne's World 2 (1993), So I Married an Axe Murderer(1993),

    the Austin Powers movies and The Cat in the Hat(2003).

    Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January1955) is an Englishcomedian,actorand writer,

    famous for his title roles in theBritish television comediesBlackadderand Mr. Bean. He has been

    listed inThe Observeras one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and amongst the top 50

    comedy acts ever in a 2005 poll of fellow comedians.

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