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Reading the readings this week, I couldn’t help but think about the laugh tracks that we are forced to hear when we’re watching a sitcom,… Read More »When a Sitcom laughs and expects us to laugh too

So as I was reading through the literary pieces from Northrop Frye and Stanley Cavell, I couldn’t help but take a focus on the idea… Read More »Green World: A Fantasy of a La La Land

While reading Freud’s piece on the lunacy of comedy and the meaning of the term joke, I couldn’t help but think about the hilarious exchange… Read More »He is Mi and I am Yu: Wordplay in Rush Hour 3

As I was reading Michael North’s piece about the age of machine comedy, I couldn’t help but realize how similar I found the machine comic… Read More »A Mechanical Bean: Slapstick Comedy through Mr Bean

I find it fascinating how Tom Gunning outlines a particular field of humor in the form of the Mischief Gag, the comedic format in which… Read More »Mischief in the Workplace: Gag Humor in The Office