Luke Schmitzer- 3/26 Daily blog
Today in class we continued our discussion about comedy, and dove deeper into it. Instead of just talking about the three sections of comedy ( incongruity, superiority, and relief comedy), we began grouping the comedy into separate genres. This is like how on Netflix there are sub genres and we began to list them off. Some examples that we identified are horror comedies (IT), action comedy (A Team), romantic comedy, etc. We also began to dive into the sub genre sit coms and what it mean, situation comedy and we used everybody loves Ramon as an example of it. The TV Show, Everybody Loves Ramon, was described by a class mate as a show that all moms love. That is because it is set in a suburban area and has nice, innocent, clean humor. We watched part of an episode of Everybody Loves Ramon, and it demonstrated exactly that type of comedy. We than broke into groups and discussed what types of comedies were displayed in the clip. My group said that conventions shown in the show is the character claims to be a good cook but ends up setting the kitchen on fire. My group said the tone shown in the clip of the episode is it seems to be care free. Also my group said that the episode went further from comedy into ironic comedy. After the group discussion we went to discuss with the class and the class got the same sub genre we did. A convention the class said that my group did not is the dumb husband vs. heroic wife, and the fact that there was a laugh track on the clip. We then continued to do this with two more clips of different episodes of different but very similar TV shows. This connects to the outside of the classroom because we can begin to dissect films and further our knowledge of them. We will be able to further classify  genres of films and make it easier to see what it is.