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Response to Ashly's Main Blog

I love the Impractical Jokers.   Their show is pretty much the only thing that has kept TruTV afloat as a channel.   You can change to TruTV at almost any time of the day or night and end up watching the Impractical Jokers.   The group is just as good at standup as they are at the ridiculous challenges in the show.   I was lucky enough to go see them in Durham, NC a few months ago.   My family and I laughed for hours after the event was over.               One of my favorite things that they do is pose as receptionists and call out a list of incredibly fake names while trying not to laugh.   The names alone are funny, but I think one of the main reasons that I laugh at the show is because of the guys’ reactions to the names and then to each other attempting to make it through the list.   Another favorite of mine was the time that Joe had to dress as a manager and then go ar...
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Response to Catherine's Main Blog

            I have never seen the 2017 version of Baywatch , or the original version for that matter, but the scenes in the link were pretty funny.   Movies with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tend to be either really good or really bad in my opinion.   I also think that it is kind of funny that The Rock plays about the same type of character in every movie he is in.   His role always fits the same basic mold.   I agree with Catherine that the relief and benign violation theories are most applicable here.   The superiority theory is definitely present in the scenes in the YouTube video as well.   The jokes in the first scene fit the relief theory because tension is built by the number of inappropriate things that are said and done along with Ronnie’s anxiety about being stuck and the growing crowd around him.   This tension is of course broken when he jumps forward and breaks the chair...
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Response to Hill's Main Blog

I absolutely love The Hangover and both of the sequels.   I agree with Hill that they are definitely some of the funniest movies in recent history.   All of the videos in the links were great and have made me want to go back and watch them all again.   These are the scenes that everyone remembers, but even the less popular scenes from the films have so many underrated lines that it is impossible to know them all.   One of my favorite obscure lines from the first movie comes when Chow and his bodyguards ram Phil, Stu, and Alan while they are driving in the Mercedes.   The bodyguards have taken Alan’s purse, which he continues to call a satchel, because they thought that it was Chow’s purse with a lot of money in poker chips in it.   One of the larger guards throws it on the ground and Alan, in the most serious and offended voice possible, says “Hey! There are Skittles in there!”   My family and I quote this line all of the time. ...
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