Comedy and Humor
People can interpret humor in many different ways. Some people may find a joke hilarious while other may find it offensive. People must be careful of how they use humor. Some may find it offensive because the joke makes fun of their culture or their personality. We experience comedy in our everyday lives, or when we sit down to watch a funny movie. In modern day most comedy targets a certain group of people or race. Humor is the quality or being amusing, however it is funny only to some extent otherwise it may become a form of bulling, and comedy is in our nature so people should laugh to stay happy. Humor is something amusing that makes you and other people cheerful. The purpose of humor is to make on laugh and feel good. There many types of such as slapstick or situational. For example, in the Pardoners Prologue and Tale, three friends set out to find a person named Death and kill him. Throughout their journey however, they betray one another because of greed after they come across a gold mine. The situational humor is that they all set out to find Death, but in the end death finds them. This makes the reader want to chuckle at the characters stupidity which is why it is a form of humor. It is important to use various techniques of humor such as the ones above to make sure a literature piece is humorous. Even though humor can be funny, at the same time it can offensive to a certain group of people or race. Most humor these days is targeted at different races. Some people may not like a joke because it offensive to the color of their skin. For example, Big Mama’s house is a film that portrays racist-humor. In one scene all the neighborhood’s women come by the say “hello” and give gifts to the new neighbors. The women are there to symbolize the obesity of black women in the South who are impatient and rude. Although the movie does not want to seem offensive to these kinds of people, people may still find it impolite towards their race or