Ben Davis Daily log blog

IWBAT Articulate how patterns in content develop genre and analyze how theories of humor create comedy

• Structurally what makes a comedy
• Chaos 
• Disorder
• Cosmos 
• Order
• Superiority Theory
• "Very often we laugh at people because they have some failing or defect, or because they find themselves at a disadvantage in some way or suffer some small misfortune"
• Superiority
• The misfortune of others
• Physical Pain
• Emotional
• At their Expense
• Amazing race example, How does it represent superiority
• Sling shot didn't work
• Its a real person
• we don't think about the actual pain
• It does the opposite of what she wants it to do
• Incongruity theory
• "This is done by the abrupt intrusion into the attitude of something that is felt not to belong there, of some element that has strayed, as it were, from another compartment of our minds"
• Incongruity
• Subverted Expectation
• its different
• Relief theory
• "Moreover people who have been undergoing a strain will sometimes burst into laughter if the strain is suddenly moved. It may be then that the central element in humor is neither a feeling of superiority nor the awareness of incongruity, but the feeling of relief that comes from the removal of restraint"
• Relief
• Removing the boundries
• Dark humor
• Joke about things you're not supposed to joke about 

This can be applied to our every day lives because we laugh every day and we can determine what type of comedy we are listening to. In my opinion we observe the superiority theory more than any other type of humor because everyone makes fun of each other everyday. However, it needs to be something that is not too serious because if its something you make fun of about someone else that is too serious it will result in a relief theory because of the removal of boundaries.