The Humor unit is a short project that consisted of analyzing works like Rhinoceros, a play\u00a0by Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco, Slaughter House 5, a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, numerous stand-ups and sketch comedy like Key and Peele.<\/h2>\n
The next step was to analyze comedic devices used by comedians that we admired. Below is mine.<\/h3>\n
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Humor Proposal<\/h4>\n
One of the comedians I analyzed was Chris D’elia. Chris\u2019s subject matter consists of girls, drunk girls, race, religion, and people. He uses techniques like caricature, anecdotal humor and exaggerism. I will be analyzing some of his act for Gotham Comedy Live, which happens to be non scripted but still very funny. There were a few people that are already recording the show from the phones. (The show was being pre recorded) He impersonates the people\u2019s friends that are supposedly asking for proof being at the show. In doing this, he does a caricature. He goes on to make fun of a man in the audience who is sitting right in front of him. (He has very short hair with a really long beard.) Chris tells him he doesn\u2019t like guys like him and that is because their face hair is longer than their \u201chair hair\u201d which means they have an \u201c upside down head\u201d. He then makes a gesture of that man flipping his head upside down in the morning to look the way he does now which creates an exaggerated twist (no pun intended). In the audience, he spots a guy that has the opposite of hair cut: long hair, short beard. Chris finds this dude\u2019s expression very funny so Chris says that the way he is looking at him makes him think he is a painting (his worst fear as a comedian). Chris squints his eyes, impersonating the man and exaggerates \u201cI see what they were trying to do\u2026 I see what they were trying to do\u201d. From this, he begins a sort of anecdotal and situational joke about museums. He continues to use the line I previously stated to make a stronger point about art in museums. The anecdotal\/ situational humor consists of him going to art museums and only glancing at the art that people stare at for forty minutes. He says, \u201cCool, cool, cool, cool\u201d. Chris uses more exaggerations, caricature, and anecdotes as the show goes on. Next, I will be analyzing Trevor Noah in his act \u201cSon of Patricia\u201d. \u00a0Trevor Noah\u2019s subject consists of insightful life experiences and politics. He also uses techniques of caricature, absurd humor, anecdotal humor, wit, and unspoken truth. He smoothly glides into his skit by talking about being in Los Angeles\u2019s traffic retrospective to being in New York, where you do not need to be in a car. Trevor exaggerates popular trap music sounding the same by comparing it to the sound of a toddler complaining, and uses absurd humor in comparing the two seemingly unrelated topics. He also uses caricature of the toddler. By doing these two, he uses exaggeration in saying all trap songs sound the same when in reality they are somewhat distinct. Trevor then talks about camping. He used to be really poor so he had to do a lot of cramping when he was younger. He uses anecdotal humor to bring us into the situation by doing impersonations of his grandmother. In this joke, he lightly adds a political twist by saying (if his grandmother found out about Trevor camping) \u201cOh trevor I thought you were successful. It must be the crack\u201d. And this represents the truth about the spread of crack in black neighborhoods. Next, Trevor talks about his trip to Bali with his white friends, and warns the audience that white people\u2019s fun is different than black people\u2019s fun which is again, some sort of absurd humor. He shares an anecdotal story that leads to many caricatures of the characters in the act like the tour guide, the white tourists, and Trevor at the scene of the event. And in this, he uses exaggeration of the way the event took place by dramatizing the main characters. The second anecdotal story in the trip to Bali consists of a few of the characters from his first story, and he introduces two new characters which is a french dad and his son. He does a really amazing job to building their interactions towards him through body language, and accents. Fast forwarding to the end of this forty minute act, Trevor Noah beautifully ties in the whole thing by creating a final anecdote. \u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
The subjects and themes I find the most inspirational and valuable are caricature, exaggerism, anecdotal, and absurd humor because they seem to be the most consistent way of producing humor. My humor project is going to be a parody video of a makeup commercial, Glossier. I want to do this specific brand because they use very little pigment in all of their products. What I find really funny about the advertisement is that the models tap their faces a lot with the makeup but it doesn\u2019t look like they are wearing any makeup. The brand is surrounded around natural beauty which is nice but I find their commercials really funny because the models don\u2019t look like they are wearing anything. I will use caricature in my Humor Project by having people pretend are models putting on makeup nothing on their eyes, cheeks and lips to mimic the style of the make-up brand. The people will have an air about them that will exaggerate their body movements and facial expressions to mimic the ones in the original Glossier commercial videos. The commercials the girls doing cute stuff like playing their hair, and looking really cute in front of the camera. To exaggerate this even furthur, I will be using the technique absurd humor by adding movements like picking their nose and rubbing their eyes…things that are not so cute. \u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
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Final Project: A Glossier Parody\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n
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