Blog Post 2 (due 5 PM Wednesday 5th February)

Sitcoms often follow a similar set of parameters from types of characters in a group to a common location that unifies the group. For How… Read More »Michael North and Barney Stinson’s “Legendary”

“In a sense, the comedian needs to become part of the machine in order to extract its comic possibilities, meeting its movements with acrobatic skill,… Read More »Machine-Age Comedy – Scoobynatural

I found it incredibly interesting to read the conflict in Bergson’s interpretation of comedy. He begins by pointing out the necessary connection of comedy and… Read More »Bergson would have loved Instagram reels (Alex Gold)

Within his analytical account of the comic, Henri Bergson contends that laughter is a social action, that ‘implies a kind of…complicity, with other laughers, real… Read More »‘Real or Imaginary’: Henri Bergson and the ‘Laugh Track’

By the 1960s traffic roundabouts were being constructed throughout the UK and became particularly common in metropolitan London, where they provided a systematic and organized… Read More »Look Kids! A Blog Post!

As Bergson describes the loosely defined rules of comedy, he reflects upon the innate comedy of the man acting as a machine—the repetition of an… Read More »Laughter and Labour: The Comedy of Severance’s Opening Credits – Parthiv Chhabria