I am clumsy

    Keyu I really like what you you chose to blog about. It is something that is similar to what we watch currently, but at the same time it is completely different. There is a scene that reminds me of myself and manyAmerican movies that are shown today. It happens when Win tin-aau is trying to be a stunt double for the second time. He shows that he is able to work with Sister Cuckoo, but then he trips almost spilling coffee on her. From here forward things spiral out of control, ending with Sister Cuckoo flying out of a window. I found this part hysterical because it reminds me so much of myself. These things tend to happen to me all the time. I am completely accident prone as discussed before. It doesn't help that most of the time these accidents occur whenever I am trying to impress someone.
      I feel like this is a common occurence in many American movies. The guy is trying to impress the girl and trips and then hurts the girl or someone is trying to get a job and trips and hurts the person that is interviewing them. I think that this is found to be funny because it is something that could happen to any of us at any given time. It is almost a sense of superiority because we know that it could happen to us but instead it is happening to someone else. Whenever I trip and fall I know I bounce right back up and check to make sure no one saw what had happened. I remember when I was looking at High Schools I walked into a wall because I was to focused on the conversation I was having with someone and I landed on my butt. I quickly jumped back up and pretend nothing had happened even though I am pretty sure everyone had seen. Moments like these can happen to anyone and that is why they are so funny, at least to me.

P. S. Happy Halloween!!

We are in Africa

      KK, I agree. I love Vine and I also love animal videos. I was lucky enough to travel to Africa with my family a few years ago and above is a short clip from our trip. We absolutely loved it. We saw some amazing things on this trip, but I will never forget this video. The hippo didn't do anything funny, but for me the background noise makes the video. So a big shout out to my Uncle Greg. He has this uncanny knack for making everything he does hysterical. I don't remember a conversation I have had with him that I wasn't near tears because I was laughing so hard. When I think of my Uncle Greg I picture him with a huge smile on his face wearing his neon green glasses. My Uncle Greg has style, his favorite color is neon green and you can tell. Everything he wears is pretty much neon green. No matter what his hair will be on point and I mean sometimes there is a point. But by far the best thing about him is the way he can make you laugh at the little things. He use to be an actor in New York, so maybe he is trained to be comical but I think it is because he is just a comical person. The sounds he makes in the video adds so much to this video that without it it probably wouldn't be as funny. I know I wouldn't be laughing as hard if he wouldn't have given us that great reaction.

     I think sound has always played a huge role in movies and TV shows throughout the decades. For example, the music from Jaws tells us that a shark is coming and other shows use it today to tell us that something bad is about to happen. Another sound is the classic drum noises that are used after someone tells a joke. Everyone knows that sound and it adds emphasis to the joke. So Uncle Greg thank you for adding some laughter to my life.

Are we there yet?

As many of you probably know I come from Oklahoma, but what you may not know is I spend my summers in Michigan teaching kids how to sail. This means every summer my two sisters, two dogs, parents, and I get into the car and drive eighteen straight hours to Michigan. We have been making this drive since I was seven months old. My parents learned very quickly that the only way to keep my younger sisters and me entertained was to put a movie on. When we first started making these drives my dad took a TV and strapped it to the middle consul because cars didn’t have built in DVD players. The road trips were very long and we did not even have headphones at first, until my dad couldn’t stand the noise any longer so he pulled over and invested in the headphones you see pictured below.  

Now after making this drive every summer you get a little tired of the same movies! To make matters even more complicated all the Blockbusters went out of business and Netflix wasn’t around, so my parents had to figure out how to keep us entertained because watching the same movies over again wasn’t cutting it. That is when they had the idea to make us watch the “good stuff”, old TV shows like Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Little House on the Prairie and my favorite I Love Lucy. These TV shows were perfect because they provided us with endless entertainment and it was unlike anything we had ever seen before. As we watched these shows we would make little dances to the intro songs. Little things like this helped keep us entertained and for this my parents were grateful.

This is one of my favorite clips from I Love Lucy. No matter how many times I watch it I can never stop myself from laughing. I love the faces Lucy makes as the conveyor belt speeds up and she has to start eating  the chocolate. Whether I am laughing because of the superiority theory or the incongruity theory, I am not completely sure. I personally think that it deals with both theories. I find myself laughing because I feel superior to Lucy and her struggle to get all the chocolate wrapped and at the same time, and I am laughing because Lucy is so out of place. I Love Lucy is a show that could be watched with people of all ages, something so innocent that it brings laughter to everyone. There was never a show that used any form of foul language or crude humor. As my sisters and I watched I Love Lucy in the car sometimes my parents would want to hear what was happening in the background because it remind them of watching it with their siblings, when they were younger, and laughing with them.

While I Love Lucy is a show that is scripted it is also a show that remains timeless. It remains hysterical without getting too graphic. I Love Lucy first aired in 1951 and that was completely different time period than we are at today. Maybe that is why I Love Lucy has such innocent humor. I love that I Love Lucy has a humor that can be passed down through the ages. It will forever be my favorite.

Did you have a favorite TV oldie? Why do you think they are so funny? Is it because of its innocent humor? Or is it because of the memories it brings with it?

Laughing at a wedding

      This is a serious problem for me. Now usually I am not the one saying the vows, but I am known to start laughing at the worst possible moment. This has happened during my schools moment of silence, my great uncles funeral, and while speaking at my cousins wedding. Each time has been incredibly awkward. My favorite story was when I was speaking at my cousins wedding. I come from a huge family. I have tons of aunts and uncles, which means I have tons of cousins. My cousin was the first one to get married out of all of us. Like every wedding, it was a big deal and she chose me to speak in the wedding. She had been in my parents wedding and she found it fitting that I was to be in hers. She sent me the verses she wanted me to read and for weeks I practiced them. When the day finally came I was ready, I knew them by heart. I got to the podium to say the verses and looked at the sheet and then started to read the verses, I looked at the congregation and back down at the sheet and bursted into laughter. It wasn't just a small laugh. It was a full laugh, one that caused the whole congregation to start laughing with me. By the time I got it under control I had forgotten my place and just decided to start over. Afterwards I returned to my seat, bright red. After the ceremony my Aunt came up to me and I was terrified that she would be upset with me because I ruined the wedding, but instead she hugged me and thanked me for adding some fun into the wedding.

       I think we laugh at times like these because we are uncomfortable. It has to do with what is happening around us and it makes us feel out of place. When Bo Burnham makes references to things like the Holocaust and 9/11 we laugh because we are uncomfortable. We laugh out of a need for relief. It is a chance to laugh about something that is so awkward to think about making fun of. If we were to just laugh to make fun of it then it would be considered rude and terrible. 

Laughing at a Funeral

 
       I have always loved to laugh.  When I was little my parents would call my laugh contagious because once I started laughing there was no way of stopping me.My laugh would not only continue on forever, but it would make everyone around me start to laugh too. My laughing habits could sometimes get me in to trouble. My mother and I being very similar, are the types of people that would laugh out loud in a serious situation, like a moment of silence or a funeral. The clip above is just a short example of someone suffering from our same trouble. When present at a funeral, one of the characters has to leave because she can't handle the sadness and instead needs to laugh. This laughter then causes her and the rest of her friends to laugh and reminisce.
 
      Phebe asked if we thought laughter could cure anything, and I do believe that it does. In moments like funerals when your heart is broken and you don't know what to do, laughing is my only answer. That sounds absolutely terrible, but its true. I think the reason why I immediately jump to laughter in these situations is because it is my relief. Laughing causes me to look at the joy instead of the sadness. When Phebe stated that she would laugh after failing a test or failing to make a varsity team, that is another great example of the relief theory. Immediately she is forgetting the sadness and the pain, and she starts to think about the happiness that causes her to laugh out loud. Okay, so when I laugh at the moment of silence that was in my chapel last year that necessarily wasn't the relief theory. It was more because the whole situation was awkward and I didn't know what to do, but I did cause the whole rest of the chapel to start laughing. Little events like these in my life cause me to laugh often, if not daily.

Yes, I am accident prone...

   

   Not many people know this about me but I am accident prone, and I mean for my sixteenth birthday my dad gave me a first aid kit. Now let me give you a background story. I have a very small tolerance to pain and I faint at the sight of blood. I have fainted 21 times in my life and I have broken my left knee once, my left elbow twice, and all of my fingers. I have more scars than I can count and I have stories for every fall and accident that has ever happened.
      Every time I tell a story of one of my many accidents I can't help but laugh. They are hysterical because they happen at the most comical times. One of the most comical experiences I have had is when I broke my knee. I was in the middle of a tennis match. We were changing sides so we were allowed to go to the bathroom or grab water, but we had to be quick. I decided to run to the bathroom. As I am jogging to bathroom my knee suddenly pops. I don't fall, slip, or trip. It just pops, and I am suddenly unable to bend my knee. I'm like "well shit this isn't good," but I proceed to the bathroom. I go back to the court and try to play. After losing the next two games my coach comes onto the court very unhappy. This is where I figure out I should probably tell my coach, so low and behold I am forced to forfeit the match. Not only that, but when people ask me how did you break your knee? I now have to answer, "oh you know running to the bathroom."
      Incidents like this one are just simple everyday occurrences in my life. For example, two days ago I had to call my RA because I sliced my finger open with my razor when picking up my shower caddy and it was gushing blood, and I faint when I see blood. But these are simple examples of relief theory, because at the time the blood coming out of my finger was not funny, but now its hysterical. I mean who has to call their RA to put a bandaid on their finger for them. I think Funny Bone humor is one of the best humor, specially when you can look at yourself and laugh.

These Jokers

     I have never been on buzzfed before, so to me this is my "Try Guys." They are part of a show called the Impractical Jokers which airs on TruTV. The show features four best friends, that together do impractical jokes. The clip above is just a short look at Joe Gatto, who is to do everything his friends tell him to do or he loses this challenge. Joe starts off with the challenge of "laser nipples" and if you had seen the previous jokers complete their task you would understand that every joker was asked to complete the "laser nipples" task too. But my favorite part of the clip doesn't happen until Joe is told to get something from the aisle. From this point forward I am a laughing mess. After two challenges whoever has lost the most receives a comical punishment. Although these guys tend to be more crud than the Try Guys, they still add a sense of relief humor to their audience. They are just a group of guys having a good time. Most of their episodes include them messing with random bystanders that are oblivious to what is happening around them. What I find more hilarious than anything is their laughs. As they joke as a whole they start to laugh harder and harder and you can really see that through their jokes their friendship has really grown.
     As stated before, they are not the same as the Try Guy, but to me they are. They will do almost anything to avoid being punished because they never know what their friends will think of as a punishment. These jokers never fail to make me laugh. I admire their ability to be so outgoing and willingness to do almost anything to strangers.

(some punishments)