Comments on The Try Guys!

The Try Guys did attract my attention at the moment when I watched the clip and I laughed a lot throughout this video. People are never failed to be entertained when they see others behave in a foolish way; people even gain entertainment from being foolish themselves. Both of these actions result in people have the sense of relieve from doing so, just like what Sarah suggested in her blog.

In today's world, people encounter with pressures from study, work, relationship and sometimes their sense of self-respect and pursuit of life. Whatever it is, they all provide with people stress and accomplishment at the same time. It is true that people gain something and in return they sacrifice something. Therefore, it is necessary for people to have opportunities to relieve from their stress and this is how comedies and TV shows coming up.

The Try Guys wearing wedding dress reminded me one of the episode from a Korean TV Show Running Man; in this episode, the Running Man team was asked to dress in females' clothes and mimic any songs from a girl's band.

The tallest person who stood in the middle of the stage (Lee Kwang soo) entertains me the most. He totally acted like a girl and he enjoyed doing that. Other people during the performance were also enjoy being foolish. Although their daily work is to behave in a funny way and make people laugh, they relieve from acting in a dumb way. For me, laughter is simple and it brings us immediate pleasure other than other things. A person may fail to entertain others if he or she has something in mind other than just relieve and be relaxed.

Comments on Jimmy Fallon

I have to state at the beginning that I did not know who is Jimmy Fallon until I read Mary's blog and I just did some basic research on this person and wrote down how I interpret his humor in my point of view.

According to some main materials, Jimmy Fallon is said to be one of the most popular television hosts in America. He won a number of awards like Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album and it is reported that he achieves quite decent ratings hosting the late night show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. However, there are some negative comments on Jimmy Fallon, for example, an audience states nine things that she hates Jimmy. After watching a few of his talk show, I have to say that he is very talented in mocking people in a way that could mostly be accepted by people. His imitation of celebrity in the past as well as celebrity at present and revise lyrics do attract people's attention. I could not say how much I like or hate Jimmy Fallon so far but I appreciate what he did in order to pursue his dream when he was young. I was quite impressed when I knew that Jimmy and his sister reenact famous shows and he persistently put effort into those television shows.

Another thing interests me is that there is a connection between Jimmy Fallon and another Chinese comedian ZuLan Wang, which both of them imitate celebrity and revise the lyrics of their famous songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K80OU3gCBSk

The video below is Zulan imitating a well-known Chinese singer G.E.M. and people laugh a lot when seeing it. Nowadays, people are exposed to more and more celebrities with perfect appearance. They are no longer interested or obsessed with how perfect they are; instead, audiences are eager to see that those celebrities are actually at the same level with them, which means, they are just 'human beings'.

Chinese comedy makes me laugh

I recently watched a Chinese comedy called Forever Young; it describes a group of students experiencing dream, endeavor and youth in their college lives. I laughed throughout the entire movie.

People become lack of courage to pursue their dream as they grow older; therefore, people generally are most passionate about what they want to do during colleges. It is also quite common that young people do all the silly things in order to achieve their so-called dreams, regardless of how others would think of them. 

In this movie, the main character Yanxi loses her best friends forever on her 22nd birthday. Yanxi and her best friends used to be ballerinas and their dream is to attend the Paris Opera Ballet together. However, she cannot afford the tragedy happened on her and get her leg injured while practicing ballet alone. Her boyfriend, in order to help Yanxi achieve her dream, decides to learn how to dance ballet with his roomates and it is the beginning of the comedy.

It is comical to watch four boys dressing in ballet skirts and keep spinning around in a totally funny way while they think they are doing the right thing to dance. One of the funniest scenes is that they are found dancing accidentally by their classmates and the four boys have to take off their skirts immediately and become almost naked.

Both the superiority and incongruity theories are applied in this comedy.  Most of the audience burst into laughing because they feel the "sudden glory"; in other words, they derive superiority from the actors as they witness the characters suffering misfortune. People also laugh at the mistakes that actors made as well as their awkwardness of dancing. The second reason that makes people laugh is that the main characters who appeared to be intelligent and good-looking suddenly start to dance ballet in a funny way. It is "the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing" that makes actors comical.

There are other things that need to be considered after laughing. We are living in one of our brightest years and only when we endeavor and persist in pursuing our dreams and overcome obstacles could we experience a meaningful youth.