Wild n' Out Blog by Sonali

One of the most recents and best pieces of comedy I have seen is Wild ‘n Out, hosted by Nick Cannon. In many parts of the show, there are segments in which people have to come up with punchlines and fire back at others on the spot, meaning having no time to think about and truly process of what exactly they want to say. In one part of the show there is a segment called, “Freestyle”, where two teams fire jokes at one another on the spot and to the beat of the music, and in the end the team with the most points wins. By needing to use improv to come up with humorous jokes at one's career, appearance, success etc on the spot, their speech has no revision. For example, Nick Cannon made fun of Pete Davidson on Saturday Night Live(SNL) and called the show “Saturday Night Die”. As a response, Pete Davidson, fires back that Nick was the hottest star only back in 2004. This idea of speech with no revision in one of the primary subjects in Nancy Sommers’ article, “Revision Strategies”. In Sommers’ article, she used students from Boston University and the University of Oklahoma and made them write three papers and revisoning each one three times. She found that most students stopped the revision process when there were no more changes in vocabulary or grammar to be done. However, in speech there is no revision, and this is the case, as seen when impov in used primarily through the show of Wild ‘n Out. According to article “Theories of Humor”, there are different types of humor. For Wild ‘n Out, humor is seen in a narrow sense with wit and farce. The show itself exemplifies superiority theory. This theory is described as humor arising from the history or misfortune of others. These is again seen in the episode of Pete Davidson making fun of Nick Cannon’s music career and in return, Nick is firing back on SNL. Overall, these two article help to understand the type of humor portrayed on show and the reason to why the show has been making people laugh for the past thirteen years.

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  1. Shane HerronAugust 31, 2018 at 10:09 AM

    I like how you bring in revision? Could we say that humor is a form of revision?

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