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General => Lobby => Topic started by: Darren Dirt on January 17, 2007, 11:41:37 AM

Title: How Roger Ebert deconstructs "comedy"
Post by: Darren Dirt on January 17, 2007, 11:41:37 AM
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It seems to me that there are two basic approaches to any kind of comedy, and in a burst of oversimplification I'll call them the Funny Hat and the Funny Logic approaches. The difference is elementary: In the first, we're supposed to laugh because the comic is wearing the funny hat, and in the second it's funny because of his reasons for wearing the funny hat.
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- from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001170/bio


Just thought that was a pretty succint, yet profound, summary. :)