From the course: Video Writing: Using Humor to Communicate and Persuade
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From the course: Video Writing: Using Humor to Communicate and Persuade
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- Hello, Professor Comedy here to help you earn your LOL. That's Linguistics of Laugh-ology. Our first lesson covers those things that are always funny. Always, without exception, absolutely, positively, 100%. Please pay attention as there will be a quiz. Since I'm not heartless, here's a freebie. The answer to the first question is a hat with a duck on it. Perhaps the oldest and most fundamental funny thing is surprise. The power of peekaboo is known to every infant and on a deep level, stays with you your entire life. As infants, we aren't aware of object permanence, that things continue to exist even when we stop looking at them. Peekaboo is our first lesson in physical law. From them on, the apparent breaking or bending of that law is always funny. Surprise through the upset of expectations is always funny too. I can't think of an example at the moment, but I'm sure you know what I mean. The surprising juxtaposition of opposites is reliably comical as well. Mm, that's better…
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