Chris Logsdon FYW blog posts

At first, I was skeptical after reading Zach’s blog that described a movie about the life of a guy who sells rugs for a living. Yet, after watching the seven-minute YouTube video of “The Best of The Big Lebowski”, I fell in love with the ‘The Dude’ as well the plot. The Dude obviously has a “take it easy” mindset which influences the way he lives out his life and gives a lot of sense about his general attitude and decisions throughout the film. Like Zach mentioned in his blog, he lives life as it goes and never really take into account of what the future holds for him. Needless to say that this approach does get him in a considerable amount of trouble that resulted in severe consequences. This is where I believe the superiority theory plays a great role in the film. The Dude’s misfortunes due to his carelessness create hilarious moments that the audience loves. For example, there is one scene early in the movie where he basically steals a rug from Jefferey Lebowski, the millionaire th...

I believe that Julia’s blog topic of the show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend unveiled one of the best examples of incongruity theory that I have yet to see. Furthermore, the fact that the show also serves as a musical is excellent because it displays how the theories of humor work outside the setting of a typical TV show. The first clip I watched was “Face Your Fears.” I went straight to YouTube after reading Julia’s blog post; therefore I was expecting to face some bizarre elements in the video. However, I was still baffled that the lady who was singing explained how running with scissors, jumping off buildings, or even dropping out of school is centered around the lesson that Rebecca should face her fears. Also, all of this was going on while a group of children in the background joyfully sang with a pair of scissors in their possesion. I definitely agree with Julia that this scene took a very odd turn away from motivation, and into a series of controversial remarks that was in the end very hi...

I am delighted that Matthew chose to write about What We Do In The shadows in his lead blog post. I only went through several scenes of the film, but what I watched was hilarious and is true to what Matthew discussed. From what I saw, there were a lot of incongruous moments that were very entertaining. For example, one vampire was trying to shoot an arrow at a dart board and accidentally pierces one of his friends in the leg. This moment was particularly funny to me because of how unreactive the vampires were. To any human, an arrow to the leg would usually lead to a considerable amount of panic. However, since vampires live forever, any injury to them is virtually non-existent. There was also a scene where the police came to the vampire’s home to check on a noise complaint. The vampires had to hypnotize the officers so they wouldn’t notice the dead bodies and buckets of blood they were walking around. This kept me at the edge of my seat as I did not know what would happen next or if t...

It is certain that comedy has existed ever since mankind has been in pursuit of ever lasting happiness and satisfaction. Taking in account, I believe that the three theories of humor are just descriptions and that none of them involve an essence. Although, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. My definition of finding an essence is to have an utmost understanding to something in which complete and permanent identification is found. Billions of people around the world turn to comedy as a scapegoat from their fears or reality in general, and no one in the right mind should want to put an end to that. If we were to fully understand the ultimate questions behind comedy then everything would become too predictable, we would forever feel inferior, and we’d never find relief to the jokes we crack. Or in other words, the significance behind the incongruity, superiority, and relief theory would be lost. However, I do find one of the theories more persuasive than the others and that is the superi...

I’m sure by now that everyone is tired of reading their 20th straight blog post about the famous TV show, “The Office”, and It’s even worse for those who don’t even enjoy the show in the first place. Either way, whether you love watching the show, or if it’s at the the bottom of the Netflix queue, it is valued by the comedic community due to its great use of satire and dry humor. For those who do not even know what The Office is, it is a comedy set in Scranton Pennsylvania where a documentary crew (a fictional one) films the day to day life of a paper supply company called Dunder Mifflin. Many may wonder why this show is so funny and beloved by millions of people. I used to wonder that myself until I learned about the three theories of humor, and how the superiority and incongruity theory are so distinguishable throughout the series. I believe this is due to the fact that some members of the cast thrive off these theories while others contribute to the plot by hardly using them at all...

The Wolf of Wall Street The "Wolf of Wall Street" is a comical movie illustrating the fast life of Wall Street investor, Jordan Belfort who is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. Belfort initially began his journey by selling penny stocks for a large commission, and eventually working his way up to making his own investment company where he profited over $100 million dollars. All of his success and achievements came through the use of fraud and money laundering, where he scammed thousands of citizens who used his services. Yet, Belfort did not seem to mind to what he was doing as long as he was able to afford his lavish and wild lifestyle. He did anything and everything that a wealthy man with no ethics would do. This included but was not limited to: routinely having office parties which involved hookers, alcohol, and drugs, paying one of his female employees $10,000 to shave her head, and flying a helicopter in the middle of the night while being extremely intoxicated. The...