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Flight of the Conchords is a musical television show featuring two men who pose as a direct opposition to Alexandra Plakias’ assertion that people aren’t… Read More »Flight of the Conkwards

The SNL Skit “Haunted Elevator” is an example of a monster robbed of its fearsomeness as posed by Noël Carroll. The sketch involves a so-called… Read More »David S. Pumpkins: Clown-Monster

 A Real Pain depicts absurdity and the struggle against it in both main characters. Two cousins, Benji and David, embark on a guided trip to… Read More »Absurdity in A Real Pain

The film, Velvet Goldmine, is Camp in the Sontagian sense. This film is meant to depict the life of a David Bowie adjacent character. Despite… Read More »Camp in Velvet Goldmine

Bananas (1971) a film by Woody Allen contains aspects of both carnival and humor as defined by Umberto Eco. In this film an uneducated man,… Read More »Carnival in Bananas

An actor laughing while on live television is a phenomenon in which an actor laughs at the joke which is being performed as the audience… Read More »Breaking: Unprofessional or hilarious?

The film Roman Holiday embodies many aspects of comedy as written about in the introduction of Stanley Cavell’s book: “Pursuits of Happiness.” The most obvious… Read More »Old Comedy in an old city

In the South Park episode, “Fishsticks,” there is an example of a joke which embodies the scope which Freud expects a new joke to be… Read More »Freud and Fishsticks

Airplane! Is a perfect example of a film made up almost entirely of slapstick and gags, which, despite this fact, has plot. Most of the… Read More »Airplane!: the new age slap-stick

  In his essay entitled “Laughter,” Henri Bergson utilizes the specific example of societal ceremonies as a fertile comical phenomenon. These occurrences fall under his… Read More »Ceremonial Ridiculousness in Whit Stillman’s “Metropolitan”