For this week’s blog post, I wanted to focus on this quote from Simon Critchley in his book On Humor: “In ethnic humour, the ethos… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Ethical Humor in South Park vs. Ken Jeong’s Mr Chow
The two concepts that stood out to me from Noël Carroll’s Horror and Humor to connect horror to comedy were the ideas of eliminating the scary… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Horror Comedy and This Is The End
On pages 7 and 8 of his essay, Adam Kotsko explains the phenomenon known as “everyday awkwardness”, and explains that the awkwardness arises from particularly… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Everyday Awkwardness and I Think You Should Leave
I was most interesting in Babuscio’s explanation of the relationship between the gay sensibility and camp and the four features consistent in camp (irony, aestheticism,… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Camp and Cameron Tucker from Modern Family
A central point in Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World – grotesque realism – has significant implications on extreme forms of comedy seen today. Grotesque… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – The Grotesque Image and Kenny from South Park
Lisa Trahair outlines Freud’s understanding of jokes and how the unconscious plays a pivotal part in their production; specifically, in tendentious jokes. In his description… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – ‘Unconscious’ Jokes and Curb Your Enthusiasm
The point from Henri Bergon’s Laughter Essay was the point of laughter having “social significance” (p. 8), where a feeling of isolation from others can diminish… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Bergson and the Absence of the Laugh-Track in Sitcoms
I was particularly interested in Tom Gunning’s description and formative outline of the mischief gag, and I believe this formula appears in many modern comedy… Read More »Nick DiCorpo – Tom Gunning and Impractical Jokers