Witty remarks and =3

=3 (equals three) is a YouTube show by Ray William Johnson that reviews viral videos in a comical manner. Ray takes viral videos and adds his own humorous comments and witty remarks to make his shows quite funny. I think that his shows are funny to me because I also like to make witty remarks in all sorts of situations. However, I tend to keep them to myself if I am not with someone I get along with very well. I usually only share my remarks and jokes with my closest brother and sister. Therefore, I am greatly amused when I hear others making witty remarks. I also feel more comfortable because I share something in common with the other person. When it comes to Ray William Johnson, I don't really relate to him much because I am just watching a video but I find it nice to listen to someone else make funny remarks. Like I stated before, Ray William Johnson reviews viral videos in a comical manner. Most of the videos are funny before he reviews them, but they really get funny when he reviews them. He adds witty comments and funny voice overs to make his remarks funnier. I think they are funny just because the are. I also like to make witty remarks and its nice to hear them from other people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8dMYFSLPE

The Office

The office is a staged reality show that follows the day-to-day activities of a group of workers at their workspace. The comedy has a very dry humor that some people like my father find to be stupid. However I find everything about it hilarious. This particular scene shows the office going through a fire drill much different from standard fire drills. Dwight, the office’s “safety officer”, is trying to demonstrate fire safety after a failed PowerPoint demonstration. Dwight takes the liberty of breaking off all the keys in the office doors and then heating the door handles to make it appear that the fire is on the outside of the door. He then creates a lot of smoke to make it appear that the office has caught on fire. The office workers search throughout the office for an exit only to find out that they are locked in what appears to be a burning building. What follows is complete havoc as the workers believe they are going to die.
I think the reason I find this so funny is why is because of the fact that this is supposed to be a fire drill. When I was in high school we had fire drills every few months and each time we had a drill we calmly got up from our desks and wandered into the mass of students slowly filing out the small doors actually happy to get out of class for a few minutes. It was a common joke between my friends and I that if there really was a fire in the school everyone’s reactions would be completely different. Everyone would taking their stuff, pushing and shoving to exit and for the most part going crazy due to the fact that they thought they were going to die. I think the reason I find this clip so funny is because this is exactly what we thought would happen and laughed about but never got to actually see. I find this clip funny because it lets us see exactly how we would act.

Blake Ogden

Rocketman

The movie is Rocketman. The main character is Harlen Williams and he plays a man named Fred Randall. Randall is computer genius who is assisting in the design of the equipment for a space mission to Mars. This mission is the first manned mission to Mars and the original crew consists of two men, a monkey, and a woman. One of the men gets hurt, though, so Randall and another man compete to be the additional man on the crew. Randall is not qualified physically, as it would seem, but actually breaks many records during his training. This is only one of the comic effects found in this movie. It is funny because to be able to go to space there are many physical tests that must be passed, which are of high difficulty. Randall passes all of the tests because they are designed to test your physical requirements, and also your mental stability. As a result of his mental stability, and also instability, he is able to pass the tests with ease. He does not take the tests serious enough to realize how tough they are so he can handle the mental stress presented. In the clip presented, Randall is a room similar to what would be found on a spaceship. He has to stay in the room by himself for a set amount of time. It is supposed to test the mental ability to not go crazy when there is nothing to entertain or occupy his mind. He starts singing different songs, like children rhymes, and it occupies him long enough to pass the time. This is funny because he is a very smart man, but he acts very childish. Another reason this movie is so funny is because the other people are taking the whole training sessions very serious, which is how it is supposed to be observed. Randall, however, thinks it is a game, and it is hilarious to see the contrast in amount of care.

I'm a Bubble

Though the entire movie Just Friends makes me laugh hysterically, the scene where Samantha James is high on Vicodin is especially humorous to me in three ways. The scene depicts a childlike sibling fight, Chris trying to ignore the chaos around him when his boss calls, and a famous singer in her twenties incapacitated by drugs. First, I need to explain a little background information about the clip. Samantha James is the most popular pop artist on the charts, and she is under Chris Brander's care. When he leaves her with his younger brother, she is accidentally tasered and falls off of a balcony. We begin watching as Chris first encounters her in that pitiful state. Obviously, if your job depended upon the welfare of a client, a client whom your brother had severely injured, the frustration and anger released from an already stressful situation would be so great it would likely revert you to instinctual rage. Unfortunately, I know that feeling. When I was young, my brother and I used to fight all of the time, often physically. That was our pattern, the norm, and even though now we are older and more mature, there are times when those tendencies reemerge. The way I would handle my anger around someone I have only known a few years would be much more calm and resolute than with my brother because I understood a mature way of handling conflict by the time I met the person. However, with someone like my brother that I knew prior to understanding social niceties, uncontrollable anger takes me back to our most basic form of working problems out, physical contact and cruel antics. Just Friends shows this adolescent transformation at an extreme that exceeds most families, certainly my brother and myself, and thus enables me to laugh at such a silly representation of brotherhood... and at my own lasting immaturity.

While Chris has his brother pinned to the floor, his boss calls. Chris tries to act cool and composed, yet when his brother is flailing around and he has toothpaste running down his face, there is only so much tranquility he can present. As a fellow perfectionist, I can relate to Chris' dilemma. It always seems like, at the most inopportune moment, the person you are working for (in whatever capacity that may be) wants to check in on you. Then, panic sets in and all you can do is hold everything together for a few, short seconds and put on a smile. True, I have never had something so devastating happen that a lawsuit could be a consequence, but the scene allows me a release of all the daily anxiety I put myself through, trying to make everything perfect when in reality, sometimes things just get messed up regardless.

Lastly, and most universally funny in this scene, Samantha James is the physical embodiment of the fears people have about drugs and how they will affect them. She can barely speak except in short, confused phrases, her head is wrapped in cloth and her mouth is overflowing with minty toothpaste. Once again, I have a bit of personal experience on the subject. When I had my wisdom teeth removed, my cheeks swelled up so much that not even my mother could look at me without laughing in that sort of horrified manner people do when they cannot believe what they are seeing. Yet, I was too far gone in my fantasies to notice. All I wanted to do was color and watch superman, which my friends make fun of me for to this day. It makes me feel better to see someone like Samantha James in a worse condition than I was. Now, I can laugh at some miserable person because I understand her helplessness and can also see the reasons why it was so funny to my friends and family to see me puffy and drugged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqBSpTMBRE

"It's like I have ESPN or something..."

As an 18 year old girl, my life is full of needless drama; most of it laughable, as well. Therefore, watching someone else’s needless drama is humorous. The movie that is the epitome of high school drama is “Mean Girls.” This film represents the many cliques in high school and all the problems that come along with them. Obviously, I have been through many of these experiences or at least observed them happening, and therefore, it is “funny because it is true.” I went to a high school where I graduated with 350 people; a small amount. News traveled fast, and everyone knew everyone. Then, after high school, I am attending a college with 750 students. It might as well be “Young Harris High School.” “Mean Girls” is still relatable, even while in college, and it remains funny.
One scene in particular that makes me laugh and reminds me of everyone at Young Harris is 4:08 minutes into the YouTube video. The “plastics” are walking down the hall and there are clips of many different people talking about them, including the principal of the school. One girl claims, “I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip flops, so I bought army pants and flip flops.” This represents the obsession to be cool in high school. While in school, being popular seems like the most important thing in the world, when it is miniscule in the scheme of life. Gossip abounds in this clip of the movie, including who is dating whom, and who is the hottest girl in the school.
This film never ceases to make me laugh. Not only is the sarcasm in the movie endless, but the way any high school student or sometimes even a college student can relate to the movie can make any one laugh. “Mean Girls” is definitely one of my favorite movies, and one of my favorite comedies that can make me laugh no matter what.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX0ncMR1XKc

Buddy the Elf. What's your favorite color?!

I have an odd sense of humor that my close friends would define as leaning toward the corny side. I believe that the reason that I find certain things to be funnier than others stems from my family and my upbringing. My parents are conservative and I grew up “sheltered”, as some of my friends like to point out. Cursing and crude talk was and still is not allowed in the Sawley house. Although I find humor of this type to be comedic at times, it is not what I grew up laughing at so there is a certain point at which it ceases to be funny. My dad is probably one of the funniest people that I know because he is not afraid to make a fool of himself. To make a short story long, I believe that the reason that I find the movie Elf to be so hilarious is because Will Ferrel cleanly makes a fool of himself the whole movie without any regards to what the people around him think. From his ridiculous costume of bright yellow tights to his sending his father the gift of lingerie because he is “someone special”, Buddy the Elf is sincerely funny. One reason that he doesn’t care about making a fool of himself is because he is oblivious to the fact that his acting abnormally. It always annoys me when people do stupid things on purpose to try and elicit laughter. Buddy does stupid things because he has a childlike ignorance of his surroundings that one does not expect to find in a man of his age. This movie is one of the very few that I can watch over and over again and still laugh as hard as I did the first time that I saw it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02572EyOIzQ

Girl With A Bad Laugh

I never realized my laugh was obnoxiously loud until I came to college. I knew that my laugh could be funny since my mom used to ask me if I had laid my egg yet because I sounded like a cackling chicken but I did not know it was so noisy. I was enlightened as to the loudness of my laughter one night when I was watching America’s Funniest Videos and my roommate started to make fun of me after a particularly boisterous outburst. Family Guy is known for having random cutaway scenes that make fun of awkward situations like a pretty girl having a manly laugh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ot6ZIzaXtg&feature=related. So, characteristically, what makes this Family Guy clip funny to me is that Peter says “Hang on to something, this ride is about to get rougher than dating a hot girl with a bad laugh” and the “hot girl’ starts to laugh with a deep voice that would not be expected. Not only does the girl’s laugh make me laugh, it makes me realize what other people must experience when I laugh really loud. This reminds me of my life because I am usually a quiet person, but apparently I get LOUD when I really get into laughing. While my laugh is not bad, well at least I do not think it is bad, it can definitely be loud. I picked another clip that is not a cutaway scene but still makes fun of laughter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSKRfbzqLqc&feature=relatedThis clip also pertains to my laugh because this must be what it sounds like when I get going. Stewie does not mean to obnoxious but that is what makes the clip even funnier. My friends all laugh when I start laughing because I, like Stewie, do not mean to be obnoxious but I apparently really am much louder than I think. Family Guy has so many random funny scenes that there is probably at least one clip that can pertain to every person.

What is love?

Carmen Solis

I choose an animation piece called “what is love?” This piece is really funny, entertaining, and ironic. I saw this animation while I was in my room. It caught my attention because of the cartoons and the title of the animation. After I saw the whole piece of work, I could not stop laughing because of the irony of love and hatred between two people. It has a background song which is really catchy and hilarious so combine with the effects of the cartoon, the piece of work becomes more amazing. I laugh at this because somehow I can relate to it. I know that when one is in love, one would do anything to get what they want. But in here, there is stalking and over exaggeration which it takes it to another different level. I have myself try to make someone like me or love me but I only have done silly things such as writing letters, watching them from far away, and trying to help them. I know that kind of is wrong in a way but I never did harm. But with this cartoon, I can see that sometimes those things can get a little too dramatic and funny.

First, the animation starts serious with dramatic actions depict in it. Then it gets sad because the guy is missing the love of his life which is a real life experience since one always wish to have the one by their side. Last, the guy would do anything to get the girl but she is not interested in him. In here, it is where all the actions and battles begin. The guy in the piano is epic because he can give tools to turn love into hate and hate into love.

I guess I find this ironic and at the same time hilarious because I can see how one is becoming crazy over love. It makes me think of all the little things I had done.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh2dcwui2-k

400 Babies!

Some of you have seen the video known as “Powerthirst,” an advertisement for a pretend energy drink. I think this is one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen, regardless how stupid it is. Why does it make me laugh, though? The reason I find this funny all stems from my friends from home, who are actually who I first watched this with. This video is so energetic and stupid I couldn’t help but laugh. After first seeing it, we spent the next two or three months quoting the video every time we saw each other.

It isn’t just about me watching it with them that makes it humorous to me, and the effects after. The thing that gets me is that I could very easily see this entire video be the brainchild of just and everyday conversation between me and and a few of my friends. It’s nothing special, but I love the fact that I can sit there and think “we could have totally come up with that.” But we didn’t. Regardless though, I love the creativity of it. Who sits around and comes up with the term “shocolates: chocolate added to an electrical storm”...besides us?

It makes me wonder whether or not they sat around and came up with “shocolate” and “rawberry” or if those words and ideas just sort of came to them out of nowhere. I know it’s possible to just think of random things like that off the top of the head, my best friend Stephen and I have done it one day on a car ride down I-16, aka the most boring highway in America. A song came on the radio, Bad Day by Daniel Powter, and Stephen and I spontaneously rewrote the song as it was playing as if Eminem was singing it. I know that sounds retarded and insane, but the things we said, which I can’t even remember, were so funny that I laughed the majority of the time I tried to sing it. Reflecting on that moment in the car as I watch this video makes me love the (possible) spontaneity of it, thus I laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs