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