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.
Thanks for sharing that show--very funny. It definitely seems like the competition aspect increases some of the humor, making them take it much more seriously than they otherwise might. This fits in with elements of relief theory in that the serious attitude makes it seem both more natural, even as it is more incongruous. Your idea that in comedy we mimic the responsibilities we face in the daily world is a good one, and is close to Freud's notion that adults play like children, treating the world as a game, in humor.
Thanks for sharing that show--very funny. It definitely seems like the competition aspect increases some of the humor, making them take it much more seriously than they otherwise might. This fits in with elements of relief theory in that the serious attitude makes it seem both more natural, even as it is more incongruous. Your idea that in comedy we mimic the responsibilities we face in the daily world is a good one, and is close to Freud's notion that adults play like children, treating the world as a game, in humor.
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