What Makes You Laugh?. 1. Exaggeration may be applied to physical, mental, or personal characteristics or situations.

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What Makes You Laugh?

1. Exaggeration may be applied to physical, mental, or personal characteristics or situations

Exaggeration Physical characteristics

Caricature/Grotesqueness-- Exaggerated or distorted features

Caricatures: Exaggerated personalities

Caricature—exaggerated personalities Bad kids Nerd

Exaggeration—exaggerated situation

Hyperbole Exaggerated language—saying more than what is meant

Hyperbole

Understatement—saying less than what is meant

2. Incongruity Human beings have a built in sense or order, and if what we expect is does not occur, we laugh For example, when things are out of time, out of place, or out of character Out of character

Incongruity—Out of Character

Incongruity--Out of time

Incongruity--Out of place

Incongruity--Out of Place

Incongruity--Out of place

The Unexpected- not what is expected

Incongruity--the Unexpected

"Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. "The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: ‘My friend is dead! What can I do?’ The operator says: ‘Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.’ "There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: ‘OK, now what?’" Incongruity: the unexpected

The Unexpected—I bet you didn’t know that Spongebob shopped at Walmart?

Reversal—the tables are turned

Reversal

Irrelevant—when something unimportant is considered highly important

Irrelevant

Funny Movements/Sounds w&v=92a81219cec40c5e5706d2cb75cafdef

3. Anticipation—looking forward to a laugh

Anticipation

4. Ambiguity—double meanings (such as mistaken identities, ruses and disguises)

Ambiguity—double meanings

Ambiguity-mistaken identities/disguises

Ambiguity—word puns

Ambiguity- word pun

5. Recognition—when we know something that a character does not That apple has been rubbed with a poison ivy leaf!

Recognition—audience knows there is no baby in that blanket!

Recognition-we know what he is grilling!

6. Protection—abusive actions can be funny when we know they are not really happening

7. Comic Relief—when emotions lead to a burst of laughter to relieve tension

Comic relief—being stranded on an island is no laughing matter!

8. Superiority--we laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at being superior to them

Superiority—my hair has never looked that bad!

Superiority—one more reason for not using the Walmart scooters!