Responce to Caroline's Lead Blog

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 can. However, this driver actually stops and thinks so little of the race to the point he stops in a race that is a few minutes itself. Another scene that I found very funny is the transaction of Ricky’s interviews. At first he was so awkward where he would take awkward pauses and not know what to do with his hands. Then the movie transitions to him being confident and signing a baby’s head! That scene just shocked me because what parent would allow a stranger, no matter how famous, to sign their babies head. Overall, there were a lot of shocking scenes throughout the movie which adds to the humor factor.