The Comedic Structure In Nbc's The Office

Comedy is a type of entertainment that uses jokes and skits that are intended to make the audience laugh. In the short story, “Priscilla and the Wimps,” Monk Clutter had the school under control with his gang, the Klutters Kobras. Before Priscilla came, the gang would go around the school stealing kids lunch money from students. When Priscilla came, Monk had finally met his match. Richard Peck’s short comedy, “Priscilla and the Wimps” is a high level of comedy that uses comic characters, comic situations, and comic language to convey the importance of treating others the way you want to be treated.

The Office is more negative with their humor than Parks and Recreation. A lot of the humor on The Office comes from making fun of or bringing down the other characters. This kind of a comedy makes for a funny and intriguing TV show. Also The Office has a bigger cast. Throughout the 10 seasons, the cast gets bigger. Some of the characters leave throughout the seasons and new ones will come in. Parks and Recreation is a smaller cast, and does not have as many characters that come and go through the seasons.

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.

Following the success of the US version of The Office starring Steve Carell on NBC, Parks and Recreation, a small-town government political mockumentary, premiered on NBC in April 2009. The show trails Leslie Knope, an employee of Pawnee, Indiana’s Parks and Recreation department, as she pursues both her political and altruistic ambitions to better the town and perhaps the entire country through bureaucratic hard-work. The audience journeys through the amusing political climate of a small middle-America town, as Leslie attempts to beautify and magnify her town via new parks, programs, and events. With thanks to the talented, comedic cast, including SNL’s Amy Poehler and The West Wing’s Rob Lowe, Parks and Recreation aired for 7 seasons, recently

When was the last time you experienced a good laugh? Maybe you were watching a show, reading a book, or even hanging out with friends. Either way you were probably observing, comedy. Which in literary terms is a genre of literature that is created in a humorous nature for a purpose of making people laugh. A television show that can be categorized as a comedy is Parks and Recreation. The show is about a crew members that work in a parks department for the government in a small town called Pawnee, Indiana. The main characters consist of Leslie Knope who later in the show marries Ben Wyatt. April ludgate who later marries Andy. Ron Swanson, Donna, Tom, and Garyy. They all work together trying to make the city of Pawnee a better place. They play pranks on eachother, but also have strong friendly bonds.

The Office is an NBC produced show that provided comedy on Thursday nights for eight years. The Office is all about the employees of Dunder Mifflin who live in Scranton Pennsylvania (the electric city). The documentary style show films the employees working at the paper as well as filming their personal lives. An average episode of The Office is typically thirty minutes long. But the series had a few hour long episodes, depending on if it was the beginning of the season, or the end. The series finale is one of the few episodes that was an hour long. The series finale displays many different types of listening that was explained in class. Listening is important to any and all types of conversation. Without it, it would be impossible to receive and interpret messages.

The average person spends over ninety thousand hours of their life at work, yet millions of people still watch a television show about an office after working their own nine-to-five shifts. Workplace sitcoms, such as The Office, have gained exceeding popularity over the past few years, but the irony is that the viewer’s “escape from reality” leads them right back to their own cubicle. So what would intrigue the audience to fictional paper companies? Audiences are able to relate to the show which is perhaps the foremost reason for The Office being first created in the United Kingdom. Soon after, American producers saw the potential of the show to be a success overseas, so they modified the BBC program for American culture. The American remake of The Office has many similarities and differences with its British counterpart such as archetypal characters and individual storylines; however, the two sitcoms exemplify the differing business cultures, diversity gaps, and the overall national identities of the U.K and the U.S.

Brenda did not appear, at first, to be very successful with her attempts to open up with the Michael, although she appeared quite successful in creating a bond with the Christian wife, Tracy. The husband seemed to get more and more rigid as the show progressed,

But while the marriage carries on, Janie realizes that their relationship does not display the respect she is looking for. By the end of their relationship,

I decided to share about one of my favorite TV shows, The Office. I enjoy this show because there are so many different characters with unique personalities. Each character interacts with one another in their own personal ways. In this show, there is no character that is the same. Certain ones give a representation of how to communicate appropriately and others show an inappropriate way to communicate. The three characters that I have chosen to look closely at are, Michael, Dwight, and Jim. Michael is the boss of the paper company department, Dwight and Jim are sales representatives. Michael and Dwight are not very good at appropriately communicating with one another or with others in the office. Jim is one of the “normal” ones on the show.

The sitcom world is rife with tropes: Love Interests of the Week, the Secret Relationship, the Yo-yo Plot Point (any story the writers just can’t stop going back to). These tropes have been defined and redefined for new generations of viewers. Characters striving to maintain the perfect nuclear family on Leave It to Beaver became characters looking to achieve a work-life balance on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, became characters inept at both work and life on 30 Rock. That New Girl’s Jess Day and Nick Miller are subject to the same "will they, won’t they" mishegas as Cheers’s Sam Malone and Diane Chambers is a nice reminder of how little human behavior ever really changes.

Pam is a thirty-seven year old customer service supervisor. She married her high school sweetheart; her best friend, their union lasted three years. Even though the relationship was over; it was the loss of the friendship that hurt the most for her. Feeling lost in the process as her marriage had dissolved, she felt lonely, and she realized even the strongest of relationships fail.

In the show The Office, Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly start out as two people who work together and develop a crush on each other. Despite that, they were never able to tell each other how they felt until later in the show. Pam was already engaged, and Jim did not want to mess that up for her although he still wanted to be with Pam. Finally, at the end of season 2 Jim tells Pam how he feels about her and the season ends with Jim and Pam kissing. Pam’s engagement with her Fiancé Roy falls apart fortunately because of the toxicity of he put into the relationship. Skipping ahead a few seasons, Jim and Pam start dating and soon enough they get engaged. At the end of season 5 Pam finds out she is pregnant and Jim is going to be a dad. They end up getting married in Niagara Falls and the audience feels so happy for this “fairy tale” couple and that their love finally overcame the struggles of their daily lives. However, conflict found its way into their relationship early and caused a great amount of conflict within their new family. Many of these problems can be seen through the lack of function being served throughout the family and certain roles not being played.

In the movie “ why did I get married” it opens by showing all the couples and their problems that they are going through. These couple are all successful and friends with each other. The group of friends once a year plan a trip out to a random location to get away and spend time with their significate other. The point of the trip was not only to hangout with their friends but also for the couples to get to know each other more and remember why they got married from the beginning. As the group all worked on their relationship, a couple did not want nothing to do with each other except that what mike wanted. Mike was an ass to shiela that critized her about being obbesed and ugly she was. Shiela ignored all the rud comments that was given to her by mike her husband because she believed that if he see her how hard she trying to save their marriage he might want to give it a chance to be happy. Mike and shiela did not end up working out because they ignored the five stages which are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, intergrading, and boding. These five stages could of save and fix relationshipos if both parties are willing to try.

The conception of comedy has been around since the dawn of man; Aristophanes wrote comic plays dating back to 425 BCE, but as time progress so does comedy. The jokes and comics we see today have changed drastically since then, and have evolved into a new style of humor. Comedy is used by writers, playwrights, and everyday people to make life more enjoyable and cause the greatest feeling to man… Laughter.