Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee: An Unscripted Gem

The famous episode from Seinfeld, “The Soup Nazi”, is loved and viewed by many. In this episode, both George Costanza (Jay Scott Greenspan) and Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) go to a restaurant that supposedly has the “best soup in the city”, according to the locals. However, everyone calls the owner of the soup restaurant “The Soup Nazi” because of his hard, cold personality and his ability to refuse service to anyone who annoys him. The episode comically portrays the fear which “The Soup Nazi” induces on his customers and the willingness of his customers to come back just because his soup is so delicious (http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/04/the-top-10-seinfeld-episodes?page=2). This episode represents only a small sample of the countless comical and satirical works written by Larry David, the writer of the television series, Seinfeld. Larry David is a comedian as well as a satirist. He is in many Saturday Night Live (SNL) skits as Bernie Sanders, and was the co-creator of the television series, Curb Your Enthusiasm. A common theme throughout his works is his ability to take everyday problems and blow them out of proportion. Larry David practices many techniques in his satirical pieces that explore ideas of race and gender in order to bring across a message to society and entertainment to viewers.

The Breakfast Club is a movie that was directed by John Hughes, and was released in the spring of 1985. It is about five teenagers from different worlds, who all come together on a Saturday for detention. The movie is filled with a multitude of scenes that may apply to many of the course concepts found in Interpersonal Communication.

Sedaris is able to incorporate humor in “Jesus Shaves” using his own sarcastic commentary while the action is happening. Some parts are very humorous because of his choice of words, timing and context of the story. Sedaris takes the reader through a day in his french class. The topic at hand is Bastille Day, and the protagonist notes, “I didn’t know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven” (415). For something to be funny or humorous it not only has to be unexpected but also has to be something the audience understands and can relate to. Most everyone can relate to being bored or uninterested in school. The protagonists notes that on a regular day he would jump ahead

Don't we all have something in common? Well that's just how comedians have an effect to communicate a universal truth with their audience. Whether if its confusion, sickness, frustration we all have something that we can relate to and that is how comedians use this effect because we can relate to that feeling or subject. That's how a comedian can communicate a universal truth to us by using humor.

Soon Seinfeld's easy-to-relate to humor gave way to regular appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night with David Letterman." Other more gimmicky comedians failed the test of time, but Seinfeld's steadfast style made his popularity bloom. Despite national exposure, Seinfeld still stayed close to his roots, continuing to play at small venues as well as on television. With jokes like: "They say Tide cleans bloodstains. I say if you've got a T-shirt with bloodstains, then maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem" ("Jerry Seinfeld" 3/7) it's not hard to see why Seinfeld caught on.

And I tell them, ‘You can’t drove. You can’t see.’” (Barry 2). This shows how when creating overdone characters and situations, it creates a base for humor to be built off of with comedic devices. Therefore, Barry creates overemphasized humor to create a positive effect on his audience making it intended to a easier viewed

In order to validate a lack of tension, Steve decides to tell a joke about a prison where a black man tells a white man to “bend over ‘cause Mommy’s gonna fuck you in the ass” (Norris, 190). However, this joke ends up revealing the true discomfort in the room as Tom states that “[he’s] gay” and Kathy states that her “sister was raped” (Norris, 192). Steve tells this joke in order to prove a lack of discomfort, as he does not want to appear disturbed by conversations regarding racism. Instead, Steve wants to validate the progressiveness of society by proving that there is nothing uncomfortable in him telling a racist joke. However, this idealized progressiveness and comfort is nonexistent within the situation. Therefore, despite his goal to conceal racial tension and discomfort, Steve’s joke ends up increasing the conflict between characters, as it brings offense to most of the characters. Tom and Kathy have deep personal connections to Steve’s joke. Therefore, they become offended as Steve makes light of serious subjects that pertain to their lives, increasing and exposing the true tension within the room. Despite Steve’s goal to conceal racial tension, his joke ends up augmenting the discomfort in the situation. In response to Steve’s racist joke, Kevin makes a joke about white men claiming that it takes “one” white man “to hold the light bulb while the rest of ‘em screw the entire world” (Norris, 193). To this joke, Steve responds by claiming “so?!! You think I’m ‘offended’? I can do this all day” (Norris, 193). Kevin tries to diffuse the tension caused by Steve’s joke with another racist joke. In making a racist joke targeted towards white men, Kevin hopes to equate the offense taken between white and black characters, ending any further hostility or tension

Since the starting episode in 2005, The Office has consistently portrayed a humorous office environment. The humor within the sitcom stems from influential people, such as Sigmund Freud, who depended on awkwardness to make a joke. The creators of The Office, like Greg Daniels and more, established humor by relying on Freud’s ideology, observational humor, and juvenalian satire. This is especially prevalent in season two, episode one of the show, “The Dundies.” Throughout the series, the audience has rolled over in their seats because of the regional manager, Michael Scott.

Research Question: How does His Girl Friday stay within the bounds of the Hays Code while challenging the culture of censorship in United States?

It’s not that funny where you would laugh all the time but it’s funny if you think about. Like how the father character Ahlfs sets up his oldest daughter’s online dating profile and goes and meet every man that wants to meet her. You have to think about it in order for it to be funny. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the show if I had to think that while the scene is still going.

If you thought the verbal humor was funny, then get a load of this. The physical humor is incredible! It’s outstanding! It will have you constantly howling with laughter. Boyle is a man that got shot in his behind while saving a guard in the previous episode. When he came back to work he was on a scooter and was using a handle picker-upper to do the jobs that require him to bend down and pick things up. When he went to get his usual morning coffee, he decided to use the handle picker-upper and pick up the coffee cups. But instead of actually picking up the cups, he dropped them one by one onto the floors, shattering about 6 or 7 cups before someone stopped him. While he was backing up to get to his desk, he bumped into a nearby desk and knocked off the entire stack of papers sitting on the desk. All the employees that were annoyed, went upstairs to a room where Boyle can’t go, on account of his injuries, and called it the “Boyle-free room”. It kept on increasing and increasing in population. Hilarious isn’t it?

“Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.” Stella and Blake. The film Patch Adams directed by Tom Shady is a fact-based biography and comedy based on a physician named Hunter “Patch” Adams. The film was produced in 1998 in Asheville, North Carolina. Patch Adams is the main character who believed that doctors should incorporate happiness and laughter when taking care of sick patients. He believes happiness and laughter is the best medicine because joy is a gift from the holy spirit. This film is an eye opener to the audience, especially people who are studying to work in the medical field. After watching this film, the intended audience would agree that doctors who use Patch Adams theory, laughter is the best medicine for ill patients will provide a better health care system, and cause the patients to enjoy and have a better perception of life.

The whole bit takes self-deprecation to a whole psychological and mental level that I’ve never seen any other comedian do before. It’s incredibly theatrical in nature, and just one of those times in the show where he’s basically calling himself a wreck for laughs, though in a much more crude fashion.

It also makes you laugh because right after it happens, you hear Boo say in her innocent voice, “Ewe!” (Pixar). This event was an effective way to create humor because it made you want to giggle because this situation wouldn’t happen on a day to day basis. Also, it is funny because you don’t actually see Mike fall into the toilet so you have to imagine in your mind what it would have looked like. Another example of how the director uses humorous situations to create effective humor is when Randal was beating up Sully while he was camouflaged. This was funny because Mike was going on about being sorry and wanting forgiveness while in the meantime, Sully is attempting to fight Randal even though he can’t see him (Pixar). This was to people viewing the movie because Mike was so preoccupied with explaining his wrong doing, that he doesn’t even realize that Sully is in a fight. In general, using comedic situations to create humorous effect works wonders. All in all, verbal sarcasm and comedic situations are two very effective tactics used to show

In today's society comedy and mental illness is not something that is humorous. If a person jokes about a mental illness, they are rude and disrespectful. Many people have put comedians under fire as to them making jokes about mental health issues. I have seen many people in my community speak upon this topic as they think it is distasteful and very much saddening. Today's society says it is never okay to laugh at the expenditure of people with mental health conditions which is out of respect and human dignity of the person who makes fun of by jokes. There is a difference between laughing together about mental health issues and other than laughing at someone who can't help their mental health problems. There is also a difference between jokes that bring the bright side to mental illness and jokes that are demeaning to those who have a mental illness. Phrases such as "Someone forgot their meds this morning" can also be demeaning to those who have mental illnesses. This phrase goes by stating someone is being crazy or acting strangely. Taking medications for those who have mental illness is very frustrating. If there is no joking about a patient who takes medicine for heart problems or problems dealing with lungs, jokes about patients with mental health issues cannot be tolerated. Jokes even about things such as medication can cause many other problems to arise in a person such as embarrassment and shame.