Youtube Videos and Laughter

Constantine · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: Youtube Videos and Laughter

This topic actually pertains to an essay that I'm writing for my study of comedy class. The paper I'm writing is going to be about the idea of random laughter, and things that make us laugh for seemingly no good reason. I'm planning on discussing the YouTube viral video phenomenon and how certain videos, while seemingly moronic and nonsensical, have managed to captivate viewers time and time again, even if only for their shock value.

Any opinions any one has will be invaluable to me and will be extremely helpful for me once I start to write my paper.

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Delilah · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:

Omg, wouldn't this be perfect for Charlie the Unicorn and Old Gregg?

Laughter is a defense mechanism. When confronted that we don't quite understand, scares us, etc we laugh. Because our brain doesn't want to process it the way we would like it to.
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Billgar · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

Once i was watching youtube about sensitive plants, the ones that move when you touch them? you know? Anyways, the i started watching plants eat bugs, then i saw a venus fly trap eat a frog then i saw a snake eat a frog, then i saw a snake eat a huge frog in one quick snap, then i saw a 3d computer snake eat the 3d computer girl in one snap....it was disturbing....

Koku · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

Constantine · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject:

Freud's a bit of a strange one though, I wouldn't base my own theories about laughter on his. We've studied him in the comedy class and while some of this things make sense, others I'm not so for. The study of what makes us laugh, and why, is actually a really interesting thing. We watch clips all the time in class, the last class we were talking about the blonde joke and gender, we watched part of legally blonde ^_^
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Delilah · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:48 am Post subject:

What a class...I'm with Koku on this though.
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