Introduction
Our humor unit was one of our most unexpected and unconventional units this year in English. It’s not every day you see a class solely focused on teaching humor to students! However, this was one of the most fun units as you may imagine. We had to research humor techniques, different humorists, and all kinds of different examples of humor. And the best part: we could watch funny videos and say it was for education, rather than for entertainment.
We were challenged to produce a creation of any sort; video, poster, music, etc, with only one criteria: it had to be humorous. Humor is subjective, and different things are funny to different people, which is why we were given so much freedom to make whatever we wanted.
I valued the time to fully delve into humor, and giving me the opportunity to test my limits in a situation where I have to try to be funny. It was curious to me there were so many vocabulary words, I feel like humor is always funnier when it is natural and isn’t forced; it’s the small daily things in life that make me laugh the most.
Proposal
The first rule of order was to decide what I wanted to do, and if I wanted to do it with anyone. Discussing with my closest friends whom I’m sure you are all familiar with, we decided we wanted to do pranks, similar to Impractical Jokers. Mr. Greco instantly accepted, saying our group dynamic would be perfect for the role. I think that is a compliment? Anyways, when doing preliminary research, we had to describe two of our strongest comedic influence, and below is both the analysis and details of the proposal.
Script
Next was to write a script that detailed what exactly our project would be. Now, as pranks don’t require a huge script and preplanned lines, we wrote down tons of different funny ideas we had and highlighted the best ones.
Final Product
Here is the final product, a compilation of the best tries and reactions to our pranks.