5 minutes
comedy!
Abdullah Al Qamzi
Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com
August 15, 2021
Some people suggest watching comedies, but I have a problem with them, which is that I don't laugh easily.
Comedy genres, there is the innocent clown who attracts children up to the age of ten, and there is the clown that has clear sexual innuendos to attract teenagers until the age of twenty, and there is adult clown that employs pornography in unimaginable situations to make the audience laugh.
There is black comedy, which takes serious subjects as a material for ridicule, such as a comedy movie that makes fun of Hitler or a comic story that happened at a crime scene, and serious / satirical comedy, which puts very serious characters in a position that is extremely comical, such as Charlie Chaplin. Or the famous series “Mr. Bean” or the character “Dr.
Romack" in the movie "Airplane!"
Or Cop Frank Dribin in The Naked Gun, these last three examples being my favorite comedies.
Quite simply, we laugh because we see reality upside down in comedy, and our minds understand reality and do not understand its image upside down, so laughter is generated when the mind sees the picture different or upside down and interprets it as a contradiction, so the person laughs at the contradiction.
The same thing happens when manipulating words, so an actor uses a word that means a verb and a noun together, and the meaning contradicts and the viewer laughs.
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson), Frank Dribin (Leslie Nelson) or Bakshi (Peter Sellers), the failed actor in the 1968 movie “The Party,” are not stupid, but they see reality upside down, and you watch the story from their point of view and laugh at them. .
The three are trying to solve problems that happen to them in daily situations, and their strange methods contradict the reality of the situation. Here, comedy is generated when reality is turned upside down, and the result is that you burst out laughing and your eyes tear up, and you have difficulty breathing until the wave of laughter ends.
The laughter subsides whenever the situation is repeated to you at frequent intervals, and the wave of laughter returns whenever you remember the situation after a period of time.
There is comedy in an exaggerated cartoon context, such as the cartoons “Tom and Jerry” and “Panther Bank,” and this is a comedy that began for moviegoers, and then became for children.
Personally, I laugh when I watch it to this day.
When someone wears two different pairs of shoes you laugh at him, and the one who wears his shirt upside down you laugh at him.
This comedy in its simplest form.
position
In a café, I saw a mother playing an educational game with her two children. The first was integrated with her and the second complained to his mother because the first did not give him the opportunity to respond to the mother and was ahead of him in answers. The second felt unjust and wanted to draw attention, so he cried.
The mother stopped playing and looked at a bag that seemed to contain some of their toys.
She took something from the bag and moved away a little and put something on her face.
The mother returned with her face covered in a clown mask with a huge nose. The first was stunned and smiled, and the second weeping laughed so hard that his eyes shed tears.
After a short while, the father came to his family, looking annoyed, and when the mother put the clown mask on her face again, the two boys laughed and the father laughed with them.
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