a unified theory of comedy
Sometimes I wonder what makes something funny. Back when I was reading and thinking about cognitive science all the time, I had decided comedy was based on your brain thinking it's figured out a pattern, then experiencing the completion of that pattern occur in an unexpected way. Sounds hilarious, right?
I still think that theory has some merit. But comic strips like this one make me think that the answer might be closer to "pointless cruelty."
Whatever it is, I think this clip from Strangers With Candy distills it pretty well.
I've got no particular reason for sharing this. I just thought of it the other day and felt like playing with video editing on the Mac. Go buy some Strangers With Candy DVDs, why dontcha?
BTW: video editing on the mac? Harder than I expected. Final Cut Pro is nice, and from what I can tell it seems easier than Premiere. But iMovie kind of sucks, and there doesn't seem to be a good, free, mid-level video converting tool like VirtualDub. I shouldn't have to download an entire pro-grade nonlinear editing suite just to extract a clip from a DVD and resize it. Bah!
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The only theory I've ever had about comedy is that any joke involving monkeys, nuns, or ninjas is always funny, and the funny quotient only goes higher if you can incorporate 2, or better yet, all 3, into the same joke.
The link to the comic strip is broken.
No it isn't! It was a browser check (am I using that right? Copying the URL into the URL bar worked.)
Did you seriously just post some Flash to your blog?
yes he did. and it cannot be borne any longer: stop being such a condescending little prick, ben.
that feels good.
I am not a condescending little prick!
After all, hadn't tom inveighed against flash in general not long ago?
I donno, I think you might be referring to this post, where I say that playtagger's use of flash to stream audio is the only good application of flash. YouTube is pretty much the same thing but with video. It's mostly neat.
(and actually, at my new job I've seen some fairly slick XML-driven GIS stuff done in flash, so I'm prepared to amend my position further)
c'mon. you totally are. in a sort of good way.
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