FYW Why Are you laughing

Since the last post was about vines I want to take a little time to discuss my experience with the Vine app and what types of comedy it uses. Vine itself is an app where users load up 5 second pictures of their lives to capture a moment that affected them. Think about it, 5 seconds to make an impression, but if we look at it other apps like Snapchat and Instagram have taken advantage of the fact that you can use 5 second clips to really make an impression on someone. For example, Logan Paul who came out on Social media used its platform to creat 5 second clips of the most absurd things. I remember one of the clips that he posted had him jumping in front of a car to save a cat. This is an example of the incongruity theory simply because of the absurd ness of this clip. Vine emphasizes the fact that you can do extremely big things in 5 seconds. Another example of the incongruity utilized in Vines would be the singing ones. Examples of this would be Cardi B and Shawn Mendez. Both of these...

The Big Lebowski is a comedic movie about a guy who suddenly gets drawn into an abduction case. The movie’s protagonist is the “Dude”. The “Dude” is a guy who does nothing but bowl, drink, and smoke with middle aged friends. During the beginning of the movie some criminals break into his house looking for a rich man. This causes the dude going to the rich man’s house looking for him to pay for all of the damages afflicted to the house. He ends up leaving the house with nothing. Part of what makes this scene funny is the incongruity of his whole situation. You would never expect someone who looks like a hobo to come waltzing into a rich man’s house. However, that is only the beginning of the Dude’s story. Following the encounter, the rich man’s daughter gets abducted and the rich man asks the Dude to give 1 million dollars to the criminals in exchange for his daughter. The Dude then attempts to go and get the daughter trying to take the million dollars for himself. The...