Comedy Blog- Brittany Graul

In The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the scenes in which the humor particularly stands out, at least for me, is when Jack makes an attempt to take one of the cucumber sandwiches and Algernon scolds him, saying, “Please don’t touch the cucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta.” And then, Algernon, after having just warned Jack off of eating them, takes one and eats it himself. This kind of farcical humor was just so outrageous and ridiculous that I couldn’t help but find it funny. Also, I usually tend to be amused by puns, so I found it really comical when Wilde interjected silly little puns like, “As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte.” While humor like that doesn’t generally have a deeper meaning, it is simply entertaining. I generally find low comedy really funny.

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. Great Neck, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1959. Print.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BignPBV32Sk

I have always been a huge fan of The Office, so I can’t resist mentioning that show. The Office consists of a lot of farcical humor and “low” comedy, but it somehow always manages to be hilarious and once you get to know the characters, it all just becomes funnier. The show kind of illustrates how ridiculous people can get in their daily lives, even in a boring paper company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SGSl-UnW0

Other examples of modern humor that I find particularly funny are 21 and 22 Jump Street which contain a lot of slapstick humor and farce, and while it can be quite vulgar, it is actually really funny.  It’s so humorous because the movies follow two undercover cops who go into high school and college, when they clearly are way above the normal age and together they manage to mess up basically every situation they are in.