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Response to: Jake's Comedy Shack

Arguably a Post about Something
I have never watched Seinfeld, and honestly, it has never seemed appealing to me. Based on Jake's description, the ability for a show to have literally no plot seems rather uninteresting to me, which makes the fact that it was pretty popular kinda puzzling. The reason I love Friends so much is based on its ability to have a storyline, but it also incorporates random humor to spruce up the friends day to day lives and problems making this show a comedy. When Jake says, "...why would a comedy that chastises and ignores all other emotions besides humor be considered great? Because the show is a comedy. That's all it is supposed to be," I completely disagree with his statement. I am not discrediting his ideas, however, I personally believe that what makes a joke funny is the plotline and all the theories correlating together to make a comedy show something worth watching. I feel that it just depends on people's sense of humor, however, humor is typically revolved around emotions or relationships which is the basis of the relief theory. Based on the clips in Jake's post, the most prominent humor theory in this show is the incongruity theory. Most laughter in the show comes from unexpected sayings of the four characters, which is similar to Friends. I think that this show could be pretty funny if all I was looking for was a good laugh, which is accurate to what Jake said. However, I feel that often with the emotional aspect of other shows, I can release pent-up energy and easily distract myself from my own situations. 

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  1. Shane HerronSeptember 21, 2018 at 9:48 AM

    This is an interesting take for several reason. When people talk about other similar shows to Friends, they usually reference Seinfeld. At the same time, you make the interesting point that comedies that have some emotional appeal often are funnier, or at least more popular. Is it that we laugh more at such shows, or we are more likely to laugh because we are entertained on other levels?

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