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What Makes You Laugh?

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.

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What Makes You Laugh?

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  1. What Makes You Laugh?

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

  3. Exaggeration Physical characteristics

  4. Caricature/Grotesqueness--Exaggerated or distorted features

  5. Caricatures: Exaggerated personalities

  6. Caricature—exaggerated personalities • Bad kids Nerd

  7. Exaggeration—exaggerated situation

  8. Hyperbole Exaggerated language—saying more than what is meant

  9. Hyperbole

  10. Understatement—saying less than what is meant

  11. 2. Incongruity Out of character 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

  12. Incongruity—Out of Character

  13. Incongruity--Out of time

  14. Incongruity--Out of place

  15. Incongruity--Out of Place

  16. Incongruity--Out of place

  17. The Unexpected-not what is expected

  18. Incongruity--the Unexpected

  19. 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?’"

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

  21. Reversal—the tables are turned

  22. Reversal

  23. Irrelevant—when something unimportant is considered highly important

  24. Irrelevant

  25. Funny Movements/Sounds https://gaggle.net/gaggleVideoProxy.do?op=view&v=92a81219cec40c5e5706d2cb75cafdef

  26. 3. Anticipation—looking forward to a laugh

  27. Anticipation

  28. Anticipation

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

  30. Ambiguity—double meanings

  31. Ambiguity-mistaken identities/disguises

  32. Ambiguity—word puns

  33. Ambiguity-word pun

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

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

  36. Recognition-we know what he is grilling!

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

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

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

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

  41. Superiority—my hair has never looked that bad!

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

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