Comic Theories

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Comic Theories
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Derision

• Making fun of the other person
• Putting down for comic effect
• Lucy analyzes Charlie Brown(120-440)
• youtube (charlie brown)

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Incongruity

• It doesnt fit
• man in the tuxedo at the beach
• The Cable Guy

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Mistaken Incidence

• One person speaks of one thing and interprets it
  as another
• Example Fiddler on the Roof Tevye speaks with
  Lazar Wolf about marrying his daughter Tzeitel

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Repetition

• Same thing happens over and over
• Youtube

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Subset of RepetitionRule of Three

• Repeat an action exactly then on the third time
  it changes

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Character Eccentricity

• oddity
• an old woman who hates children
• The Nanny

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Under-Over-Reaction

• Reaction to an event that is not appropriate
• Sleeper

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Gulling/Tricking

• Someone tricks another scam
• Example

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Physical / Scatalogical

• Bathroom humor
• Elaine's Dance

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Automatism

• Robot movements among the living
• Actroid DER2 Fembot

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Puns/ Word Jokes

• Repeating words jokes
• Petruchio Meets Katharina