Julia's Comedic Blog

Deadpool and its sequel are both great. Deadpool's very self-aware sense of humor and the constant breaking of the fourth wall makes it unique among other superhero movies as well as generally a hilarious movie. Through its use of breaking the fourth wall and general ridiculousness, the world of Deadpool is full on incongruities. The scene you mentioned in your lead blog post is a great example of Deadpool breaking the fourth wall to utilize the incongruity theory to hilarious effect. Deadpool wondering in the middle of an extremely violent fight whether or not he had turned off his oven is an example of incongruity because most people would not expect someone to be thinking about their oven in the middle of a fight. Another aspect of Deadpool that makes it funny is that it is a satire of itself. Deadpool is in the same universe as X-Men and is by the same company (ish... Marvel not Sony) as the MCU, and Deadpool is very aware of this and uses this awareness to comedic ...

"The Good Place" is one of my favorite television shows, well, ever! It's characters and constant twists and turns make it unique as well as give the show it's unique brand of humor. Most people would think that a show that's plot is about morality  and ethics would be a great comedy, but The Good Place really makes it work. The scenes chosen are great examples of this humor at it's finest. Jason Mendosa from the first scene you picked, is a great character who, as Elinor says, seems to only know about 20% of what is actually going on around him. His obsession with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and specifically their quarterback (BORTLES) as well as his general dumbness make him the butt of many jokes on the show. Jokes with him usually utilize superiority theory, since the audience is meant to feel superior to Jason because he is acting in a stupid was, as seen in the scene used here. Janet, the robot (but not a robot) girl (but not a girl) is also a unique cha...

Elf is one of my all time favorite Christmas movies. It has classic Will Ferrell being Will Ferrell humor and plenty of hilarity and Christmas cheer to go around. The two scenes you picked are classic scenes from the movie for a reason. The Santa scene is iconic because of Will Ferrell's brilliant acting and the overall ridiculousness of the situation. In this scene, the store manager announces that "santa"/ an actor playing Santa will be at the store tomorrow, but Buddy, having lived in the North Pole with the real Santa expects the santa to be the actual Santa and gets ridiculously happy to see his old boss, but the other adults, who know that this Santa will be an actor, are confused by his enthusiasm. This causes incongruity because hot would not expect a fully grown man to be so excited to "see Santa". The burping scene is also hilarious and a true classic. There are two main incongruities present here. The first is how long the burp lasts, which is much ...

Vines are one of my absolute favorite things on the planet earth. These short videos have made me laugh so many times and it's hard to get tired of them. Vines are great in that way because they are so short, you can watch them over and over and over again and the vine is still hilarious. There are so many great vines, from the classic "fre shava cado" to Judus bring Jesus myrrh, myrrh-dur. All theories of comedy can be found in these tiny videos that took over the internet. Incongruity theory can be found in a lot of vines with twist endings. For example, a vine starts with a teacher asking a kid names Jared to read a question, and he responds "No", which you would expect to be because he doesn't want to, but then in a voice-over, he says "Hi I'm Jared, I'm 19, and I never learned how to f****** read". This subverts the audience's expectations, thus creating a comedic effect. (In writing this, I realized I'm going to be ruining al...

"The Big Lebowski" is a movie that I've known about for a long time but never got the chance to watch until now. Having seen the Coen brothers' other film "No Country for Old Men", I was excited to see another one of their films and "The Big Lebowski" was very different but it did not disappoint. I don't think there is any way to fully explain this film and make sense, but in essence, it is a man named the dude's massive and ridiculously complex journey to replace his rug. In this film, I think that incongruity theory is extremely prevalent even in the premise of the film. This film takes genre and general expectations of what a movie is and flips them on their head, which in a way, is incongruous. As well, the dude being the protagonist is incongruous. Usually in stories, the protagonist is the one that moves the plot along, however, in this movie, it seems like everything around the dude is what propels the plot forward which causes many...