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Made You Laugh By March Nobleman Analysis

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We've all laughed at a good joke before. But why? How do people even create humor? Comedians create humor in many different ways, and in many more ways still do they use it to convey a message.

Timing and knowledge of the audience are very important when a comedian is writing and telling his jokes. According to the article "Made You Laugh" by Marc Tyler Nobleman, "Timing is critical. Starting stand-up Zubair Simonson said he’s learning the hard way that 'good timing can cause a weak joke to soar, while poor timing can cause a strong joke to falter.'" This is first- and second-hand evidence that timing can make or break a joke. You have also probably heard some variation of that in everyday conversation. Without the delivery being timed correctly, …show more content…

Taking an excerpt from a comedic essay called "I've got a few pet peeves about sea creatures" by Dave Barry, "She put Marvin into a Tupperware container, where, under Sophie’s loving care and feeding, he thrived for maybe nine seconds before expiring like a little six-legged parking meter. Fortunately, we have a beetle-intensive patio, so, unbeknownst to Sophie, we were able to replace Marvin with a parade of stand-ins of various sizes ('Look! Marvin has grown bigger!' 'Wow! Today Marvin has grown smaller!')." This shows in a comedic way the struggle of caring for a child who is over-obsessed with a pet by using comedic tone and words to describe caring for Sophie and "Marvin." From the same essay, "I’d point to some fish, and the aquarium guy would inform me that these fish could become aggressive if there were fewer than four of them, or an odd number of them, or it was a month containing the letter 'R,' or they heard the song 'Who Let the Dogs Out.'" This shows in a comedic light the trouble of attempting to get a fish with minimal care requirements by using hyperbole to exaggerate the trouble it was to get a fish because of stipulations. When creating comedy, comedians can convey universal truths about life and the world, which can in and of themselves be

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