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Title: SM4110/SM5318 Understanding Drama in Media


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SM4110/SM5318Understanding Drama in Media
  • Comedy

2
What is Comedy?
  • We all want fun
  • drama is fun!
  • drama can be fun!
  • Life is tough. We need some outlet!

3
What is Comedy?
  • Comedy is tragedy done ten times faster!
  • comedy is about timing!
  • Example
  • A Hows your gorgeous girl-friend?
  • B Shes no longer my girl-friend.
  • A Dont give up hope. I still see her hanging
    around with guys a lot. Boy! Shes hot!
  • B Shes now my wife.

4
What is Comedy?
  • Comedy is other peoples tragedy
  • William Shakespeare
  • Comedy is not so personal (to audience), not as
    real, not so serious
  • No threat
  • Still with suspense and tension great timing

5
What is Comedy?
  • Comedy is fantasy surprise
  • Often start with a crazy idea
  • Principle since ancient Greeks
  • Example
  • Modern Times, The Private Eyes (????), Shaolin
    Soccer (????), After Hour, Taxi Driver

6
Comic Character
  • Comedy is about people who are
  • smaller than us
  • lower than us
  • shorter than us
  • less good than us
  • less human than us
  • No psychological threat to us
  • Safe distance

7
Comic Character
  • Comedy is exaggeration (over / under)
  • Comic action / behaviour
  • Walk, talk, look, move
  • Often stereotype / anti-stereotype
  • Gives rise to slapstick / physical comedy
  • Example?
  • Chaplin
  • ??? (Michael Hui)
  • ??? (Chow Sing Chi)
  • All great comedians 

8
Comic Plot
  • Comedy is fantasy based on reality
  • Topping the joke
  • add an unexpected ending
  • Logical deduction
  • trace an internal logic with a little twist
  • Example
  • If machine can help us work, it can help us eat
  • eating machine scene in Modern Times

9
Comic Plot
  • Comedy is tripping toppling
  • People we want to trip / trick
  • Bad jokes that dont hurt much even if were
    true
  • Ways we want to see otherwise
  • Example
  • The Great Dictator, King of Comedy (????),
    Wedding Banquet (??)

10
Comic Plot
  • Comedy is attitude POV
  • Parody
  • Wit
  • Winning with joy
  • Gives rise to comedy of manners, light comedy

11
Comic Plot
  • Comedy is mismatch mistake
  • Mismatch of timing
  • Mismatch of event
  • Mismatch of personality / relationship
  • Mismatch / violation of normal causality
  • Mistake (duality) of meaning
  • Example Wedding Banquet (??), Goodbye Girl

12
Comic Plot
  • Comedy is about warmth, about love
  • Comedy is release of emotion
  • Comic release in tragedy
  • Example?

13
What is Comedy? 
  • Comedy is hard work discipline behind laughter!
  • Many comedians are damn serious in real life!

14
What is Comedy
  • Lets see!
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