Saturday 9 February 2013

Humor: win some, lose some.

It's amazed me for years at just where the line is in comedy?

Does a line of what's acceptable and what isn't even exist? Who decides these things?

It's taken me on a very weird journey to come to the answer of these questions.

The truth of the matter, is that we all decide for ourselves what is funny. Sure there's different things that can have an effect on us, like being in an audience can make you laugh louder because you feel more relaxed to be able to do so. Like last week, i was at the filming of a tv show, it's a sitcom type set up and they needed an audience in to provide the laughter that will be played during the show when it airs on tv.

Some of the scene's, if watching at home on the tv, i would have thought "Ha, yeah" but not even smiled. Yet because i was sat there behind all the camera's and boom mic's, with over 200 other people, i laughed. Luckily for us, it turns out that some parts were actually side splittingly funny, to the point i had to wipe tears away because i was laughing so hard.... even on the 2nd take! Then of course i went and got the giggles, but thats for another time.

See, this video below, i REALLY enjoy. I don't enjoy it because i'm gay, or a bottom, but i enjoy it because A) them harmony's are brilliant and B) because it appeals to my.... adult? sense of humor.


Now of course, you could be sat there thinking "oh god, that is awful, the worse thing i've ever heard" which is fine by me, i understand that humor is different for everyone.

So how do you become funny as a person if you are on stage infront of so many different sense of humor's.

It's simple for me. I don't try to be funny, my job isn't to do stand up comedy, but between song's, sometimes over them, i will use my sense of humor and say some thing's that can be amusing for some people. Usually at a party, you're pretty sure to be able to point out the person who's dancing before everyone else, the person who's too drunk to notice what you're saying about them and of course the one's who have dressed up really nicely, to go and sit down all night.

Using comedy can lighten the mood, when people understand that you're joking with them, which 99.9% of the time i am, the odd time i can mean it, but still it comes across as being funny for some reason. While my objective isn't to offend, yes, some of what i say can cause offense.... but that's where people's standards come into play.

I think when it comes to humor we all judge things to our own standards and i think its a habbit we need to get out of. Jokes about dead celebrity's have been told since celebrity's have died, and as quick as we get them today too, so while i may recieve some jokes that i don't find funny, i rarely criticise them, for not fitting to my personal sense of humor.

When we take a step back, some people do still find these things funny, so if it works for them, hey presto, it's still called funny.

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