Dance in the Dark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ZAYxALgb8

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Most of the people I know, like to laugh. But what do they laugh about? And why do they laugh?

‘Jake and Amir’ is a good example of what I love to laugh about. Jake and Amir are both characters that are stereotypes. Jake is this sarcastic and straight forward guy. He is harsh in the way he talks to his best friend Amir and he doesn’t mind hurting him (even though that doesn’t work). Amir is an awkward guy who always says things that seem out of place and he’s constantly trying to be funny. There are some classic situations in this episode that viewers can relate to: writing a bucket list with things that are completely ridiculous, like ‘eating a cock sandwich… it better be free because I’m eating a cock sandwich after all’ and having a  bad relationship with your father (in this case the situation is of course… ridiculed!). Like Ian Johnston wrote in his introductory lecture to his “English 366: Studies in Shakespeare” : comedy is all about disorder. What breaks out of the norm, makes us laugh. What Amir says is confusing because he says things that have nothing to do with the situation, like “ever heard of ‘I was car sick’?!”, but because they’re confusing, they seem funny. Amir definitely seems like the funnier one to me because of the way he acts. He asks Jake if he can help him look over his bucket list, but he immediately gets distracted whenever Jake tries to help him. He also brings in a little bit of a dark humor when he talks about burning down a small library… not looking back… just giving it a glance… turn around and fully behold, he’s earned this and finally even take a picture to ‘tweet’ it because he deserved it. I honestly can’t stop laughing when I watch that part, which also has to do with the way he moves while Jake reads his words out. Another moment of dark humor is when he says that he wants to climb the Eiffel tower and then punch French women in the face until their moustaches fall off. Then he tells Jake to erase that part because he has already done it. Absurdism is brought in when Amir tells his dad, who is on the phone, that he’ll soon feel bad because he’s going to cry, except he doesn’t succeed in crying on demand. ‘Jake and Amir’ is one of my favorite things to watch when I feel like laughing, but really it only consists of ridiculing people and making dark jokes.