Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Research: On humor...

My takeaway tonight was from a lecture not a film: that funny is the unexpected.

Is that true? Sometimes. 

Richard Saul Wurman had this to say at tonight's lecture (among other riveting topics):

Woody Allen said: "80 is the new dead"
Clearly funny.

Wurman said: "79 is the new 77"
But no one laughed. Unexpected, yes. Funny, not necessarily.

Incorporating humor in the script is perhaps my biggest fear and weakness. Perhaps I need to think about the rules of improv - the circumstance creates the funny, and it's often the unexpected.

Ughghg.  

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