English Humour Assignment

Step 2: What type of comedy is your humor project, why does it meet those criteria?

I created a series of four humorous pictures for the final humour assignment. Each picture has a different meaning but they still follow under the same example of comedy, and that is a comedy of ideas.

The first humorous picture is called Uh Oh, and is all about a female deer making love to a handsome, buff male deer. It falls under the category of comedy of ideas because it talks about things that are dear to us like family, relationships, friends, and religion. Another picture is called Ikea, and it’s called that because it’s a project that is extremely do it yourself. It is also an example of comedy of ideas because a character argues about the idea of doing the whole project from the beginning, and it also mocks what Ikea is all about. I created a humorous picture called On or Off, and it describes what a wife thinks of as an ideal relationship. This is an example of Comedy of ideas because it uses language to mock, and also make fun of things close to us like family, and relationships. My last picture is called I failed, and it mocks all kids because it briefly says how all kids now copy everything from Wikipedia.

My humorous project included comedy of ideas because it is the type of comedy in which I find easiest to write, and talk about.  I find it easier to write about it because it is a topic that I can most relate too in my everyday life. 

Step 3: Reflection

Creating something humorous for people is very entertaining and very amusing to make and think about. During the process of creating something humorous I enjoyed finding ideas, and searching through everybody else’s idea of  humour.  Most comedy found on the internet are examples of farce or low comedy, and I was hoping to find more examples of  comedy of ideas for my project.

When I finished researching I found it rather easy to think of different ideas, and different examples of comedy to do for this project. I completed the written part fairly quickly, but finding pictures to fit the joke was very hard. I struggled to find the perfect picture for each joke, and to make the pictures match and look well together.