Sonali's Blog

I had never seen the skit, “The Champions”, from SNL before, but I found it very humorous. When D.C. Timmons said “Every foot matters, every down matters, and every kiss begins with Q”, I died laughing. Timmons butchers a well known jingle from the K Jewelry store, “Every kiss begins with K”. Then when he is corrected by Rodriguez when he states, “It’s a K”, Timmons said, “Sure it’s okay Greg” and then says, “Got to get woke, it’s 2007”.  The whole conversation was so funny to me. D.C. Timmons would misinterpret what the others were saying and also state all the wrong things, such as a football field being 100 feet long. You would think that being on a professional football team, one would know how long the football field is and not get confused with yards and feet. Also the fact that he kept calling everyone in the interview Greg, even when to no there was named Greg just added to the humor effect. I definitely agree with Trace that the idea of superiority is overtly at play thro...

I also grew up watching Home Alone for many Christmases. I have literally seen that movie so many times during the holiday season and in school when I was younger. Everytime we watch the movie, it still makes my family and I laugh. Kevin is just so clever with his contraptions. One of my favorite traps is when Harry gets covered in feathers and glue. What a “sticky” situation. Another trap that I like is the one where Kevin puts his pet tatruala onto Marv’s face, making his freak out (I would be too to be honest). Even one of the more simple pranks can make me laugh, such as the burglars tripping over a wire and falling down the stairs. A basic, yet classic prank for all ages to enjoy. Overall I believe that superiority theory is one of the main factors at play here in regards to the reason why the movie was such and still is a hit, and also still has the ability to make people of all ages to laugh. This laughter is a result from the feeling of being superiority the burglars when the e...

It was very interesting to see how people downplay tragic natural phenomenons into a comedic manner. I found the tweet, “I’m coming bitches” so funny, because you can just imagine this force of nature having it’s phone out and tweeting that it’s about to mess up the southeast coast. The tweet you stated, “ Rt for category 5, Fav for category 3”, was also very funny to me because it’s as if Hurricane Florence is letting the people decide which level of damage they want done to them, tempting us with a choice as if the outcome is in our hands. I looked back onto the Twitter page and another tweet I found funny was tweeted right before the actual hurricane hit which was, “It’s game time, talk shit get hit”. It’s is as if the hurricane is warning us that if we downplay the hurricane, then she will just hit harder. I also looked around Twitter and it’s common for hurricanes to have their own account, such as Hurricane Isaac, who has as their header, “coming soon.” This whole idea of personi...

Will Ferrell is a well known actor that is seen around today in many shows and movies. I agree that Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is such a funny movie. When I first watched it on Netflix, I was laughing at all of the absurd scenes throughout the movie. With the first scene about the prayer, I remember being taken about when Ricky said, “red-hot smoking wife, Carley who is a stone-cold fox.” The fact that someone would say that in a prayer, let alone an out loud dinner prayer with the family, is crazy to imagine happening in real life. I agree that incongruity theory is at play here because of absurdity of the prayer. There is another part where the driver is in the middle of a race and he stops to eat a sandwich. When the team asks where he is, the driver says that he is eating a sandwich and he will be back into the race after he makes a quick phone call. This scene is seen to be quite humorous because the whole point of the race is to not stop and drive as fast as you ...

I agree with Will’s idea that Sacha Baron Cohen created a whole new environment for comedy. His show “This is America” has taken off and that is to no surprise as his humor in done in a context that is fairly new to this generation. For example, in his show Cohen has a section called “Children's Gun Advert”. In this skit, Cohen and another man are in a cartoon school setting and talking to a children audience about the various guns and how to use them. What makes the scene even more humorous is the concept of giving guns to children, but letting them believe that they are toys or teddy bears, such as the “puppy pistol”. The whole idea of giving kids guns and having them disguised as toys to make them seem less dangerous is simply absurd and completely inappropriate. However, I find it interesting that Cohen would even speak on this idea as he is really hinting that schools are so dangerous, that it has come to the time where little children need to arm themselves in order to be p...