Humor

John Cleese mentioned that he subscribed to the Henri Bergson theory of laughter.

I was the “Jokemaster” at yesterday’s Toastmasters meeting, and I decided to write original jokes rather than read something from the Internet. I bombed pretty thoroughly. My first joke was this: “the Finance Department announced that our retirement money is fine, but if you had a 401K it is now a 5K. If you want … Read more

I went to see “MacGruber”, the recent movie that spoofs the 80s icon TV show “MacGyver”, and hated it.  It was deeply flawed.  It was almost to the point of my wanting to gouge my eyes out, but not quite that bad.  I did walk out because I didn’t give a rat’s ass how it … Read more

During Kaplan’s Comedy Intensive, Steve breaks down scenes from movies–those that work and those that don’t– and together with the class he discusses ways in which the tools might have helped the funny bits work in the situation. What he generally believes to be wrong in most romantic comedies is that they portray beautiful people doing foolish things which have little hope of helping their situation.