Comedy and Satire
Humor in its Most Natural Form
All unprofessional comedy and satire seems to revolve around the family, whether or not the family is broken or together. My family is a wonderful of example of humor surrounding the family unit. However, to provide examples online where others can go explore, I will share an example, one of my favorite blogs, the truly hilarious It Just Gets Stranger.
Introduced to this site by a close friend I have been delighted and greatly amused by it since. One notorious example of a “post” that caught the attention of tens of thousands in the first week of being posted is “Snuggie Texts”. Posted in December of 2011 it is the conversation of Eli, the famous blogger, and a stranger who texted him with the wrong number. Eli went along with the text allowing the stranger to believe he was someone she knew.
Hilarious, no matter how original this post was, it created quite a stir. Here’s a link to the “unprofessional” comedians laugh-evoking words:
Introduced to this site by a close friend I have been delighted and greatly amused by it since. One notorious example of a “post” that caught the attention of tens of thousands in the first week of being posted is “Snuggie Texts”. Posted in December of 2011 it is the conversation of Eli, the famous blogger, and a stranger who texted him with the wrong number. Eli went along with the text allowing the stranger to believe he was someone she knew.
Hilarious, no matter how original this post was, it created quite a stir. Here’s a link to the “unprofessional” comedians laugh-evoking words:
Funny, right? (And I am completely assuming you clicked on the link and actually read the post) This is one among countless examples of humor that regular people like you, the reader, and I somehow spontaneously generate. Despite the many odd occurrences that have shown up in my life, I haven’t had one quite like Eli’s; it seems as if I like to keep my acquaintances with strangers to real life. I am of the opinion that sometimes it’s okay to talk to strangers!
To keep the integrity of this “unprofessional” comedy and satire I believe citations are not necessary. This is my final post on this website, and hopefully it will tie up some of my final thoughts about comedy and satire and how much I have truly learned over this semester in school.
To keep the integrity of this “unprofessional” comedy and satire I believe citations are not necessary. This is my final post on this website, and hopefully it will tie up some of my final thoughts about comedy and satire and how much I have truly learned over this semester in school.
Real Examples, Hilarious or Not
To entertain the reader, if any, of this blog and to let some of my thoughts shine through I will provide some examples of experiences that were at least honestly funny at the time of the occurrence.
That is something I wish to acknowledge greatly actually; humor often times seems to be funny or cause laughter in the moment or only to the participants of the certain “incident”. What someone said or did may be completely gut-wrenchingly funny in one instance while at another time depending on the audience it may not seem funny in the slightest.
I cannot describe how many times I have started to tell a story, small or not, and disappointedly realized my audience had no real interest; from this I concluded that the incident was only funny at the time and to those people that the situation occurred. To provide an example a little out of the context, I’ll mention a small experience that I occurred this past summer in 2012. Only the girls that were there truly realize how okay and even right it was for us to let that old man, who was a complete stranger, buy us ice cream. Right now I know you are screaming in protest at least in your head: “Did your parents teach you nothing?!? You are obviously mentally insane! Don’t you realize that old man totally must’ve fooled you?” However, I can completely assure you otherwise.
See, you immediately jumped to conclusions, unless you are part of the 2% of the population who can restrain themselves from judging so soon. Though more of a “that wasn’t smart thing” rather that a “that wasn’t funny thing”, you can’t ever really quite understand. You had to have been there, and I believe that any form of comedy and satire starts at this level of “small understanding” and then burgeons to become something more people can understand, relate to, and then laugh at. Anything can be “funny”, it all depends on the situation and the people involved whether or not something seems funny or not. Comedy and forms of satire can be put under speculation whether or not an incident is hilarious or not.
Comedy is truly in the Eye of the Beholder.
That is something I wish to acknowledge greatly actually; humor often times seems to be funny or cause laughter in the moment or only to the participants of the certain “incident”. What someone said or did may be completely gut-wrenchingly funny in one instance while at another time depending on the audience it may not seem funny in the slightest.
I cannot describe how many times I have started to tell a story, small or not, and disappointedly realized my audience had no real interest; from this I concluded that the incident was only funny at the time and to those people that the situation occurred. To provide an example a little out of the context, I’ll mention a small experience that I occurred this past summer in 2012. Only the girls that were there truly realize how okay and even right it was for us to let that old man, who was a complete stranger, buy us ice cream. Right now I know you are screaming in protest at least in your head: “Did your parents teach you nothing?!? You are obviously mentally insane! Don’t you realize that old man totally must’ve fooled you?” However, I can completely assure you otherwise.
See, you immediately jumped to conclusions, unless you are part of the 2% of the population who can restrain themselves from judging so soon. Though more of a “that wasn’t smart thing” rather that a “that wasn’t funny thing”, you can’t ever really quite understand. You had to have been there, and I believe that any form of comedy and satire starts at this level of “small understanding” and then burgeons to become something more people can understand, relate to, and then laugh at. Anything can be “funny”, it all depends on the situation and the people involved whether or not something seems funny or not. Comedy and forms of satire can be put under speculation whether or not an incident is hilarious or not.
Comedy is truly in the Eye of the Beholder.