Thoughts of a Comic
Nowadays we have so
many types of definitions to what actually is referred to as comedy. The real
funny thing is how people basically think of it as telling a joke whereas we
live now in times where comedy itself has a great amount of history and current
affairs. Economics can also come in if you technically want to term the
statistics regarding which comic is the most syllable and which type is sold
the most and so on. To be honest if you think about it, comedy is used to tell
people things they otherwise would not have listened to. We use it to make
topics interesting and refrain people from showing us how loud they can snore.
A comic doesn’t need to necessarily take help
of a joke to make a person laugh. There’s comic acting, improvisation and
narration to name types apart from jokes. There is a difference between a
comedian and a comic actor. A comedian tells you jokes while a comic actor says
things funny. A comedian will tell you “Let me tell you the best part about me
giving her that nice red dress. She gets 3 things out of it. One: the dress,
two: the jealousy from the neighbours, and three: when she sees one of her
friends wearing the same coloured dress she gets to shout Oh my gosh! You tooo!!
Ahahahaaa!!”. A comic actor however will go like “I wish. I had. Meryl Streep’s
hair. So I could have scared my deadly foes indeed.” in William Shatner’s voice
or just be like “Being someone famous, you smile at em and they keep sniggering
at you for the next hour. And one of them’s always gonna have his bloody mouth
open, start drooling. I’m like What do
want now, a cookie?”.
Now the fact about
this subject is that even if you have separate types, you don’t have a specific
rulebook that says the respective types are restricted to themselves so
basically the real comedy comes in the form of mixtures. A joke in itself on a
basic level is you asking a question which the other person or audience can
rarely answer unless of course there are mind readers among every bunch coming
to watch some stand-up. Similarly a narration is in this case basically telling
a funny story. It in itself is a type that is common when you’re basically
talking with your close amigos and attentive compadres. You just have to know
how to be random.
Most comics in the
past as well as in the present rely a lot on jokes. The best of the best
however have always relied on total improvisation and will continue to. Take
people like Rickles, Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Ellen Degeneres, and Jim Carrey
to name of the greats.
Usually if you’re into
the funny business you basically realize two things, first is that you can
never stick to one type when doing a show and secondly to always drink some good
cold coffee before you come up. There are so many genres that have surfaced
over the years namely loose comedy, mean comedy, sarcastic humor, etc. Even
though everyone tries their hand in doing everything, every comic
has their individual style and their style reflects only one genre.
If you look at history
as well as present then one has to admit how superior sarcastic humour and mean
comedy is. However not every place and hence not everyone accepts it. That’s
one of the main things which make comedy so tiresome. Trust me if you didn’t
already know let me just tell you that making someone laugh is way harder than
making someone cry. This is not only because of the negativity vs positivity
concept. It has to do with the fact that what hurts someone and gives that
person pain will never get old. A joke however gets old. Also a joke which is
funny to your friend might not be that funny to your sister.
People need to start
learning how to differentiate between making fun and insulting because they
both sound and are phrased differently. Also people need to be able to take comedy
to it’s actual extent and not take anything seriously when it is going on
because that is what you’re supposed to do at that particular time, have fun.
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