Here is the link of the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxINJzqzn4w
I thought it is interesting to see Bill Burr can speak whatever he want in public, including the thoughts restricted in the society.
In the beginning, he said if there is an automatic check-out machine in the supermarket, he will just passing by the machine and told the police he don't need to pay because there is no employee. This behavior may sound crazy in our daily life, because nobody can actually stealing goods from the store and find a such stupid excuse without feeling shame in front of police. However, although stealing goods is definitely not the right thing to do, we cannot guarantee that we have never thought about it in our unconscious mind. Sometimes, malicious impulses are exactly what people want to do without laws controlling us. In my opinion, the reason why it is funny is because he pointed out our unconscious mind, stealing things, and say it out loud in the public, just like talking about something always happened in our life. In other words, he is kind of making a delusion of the society without rules which blurs audiences' boundaries. In this way, audiences will feel relief because they let their forbidden thoughts out and found his humor in the show.
Later, he said never try to get help on the phone, because there is nothing we can get except listening ' I understand, but I am sorry, there is nothing i can do' over and over again.' He uses this extreme case to criticize workers' lazy and irresponsible attitudes, and even deride this hopeless job. For me, this case is funny because this always happens in my life, but it is so trivial that nobody shares it in our life. However, when hearing the compliant, I will have the same feeling with speaker, and find out I am not the only person who also suffered in this situation. It is like the superiority theory, the humor of seeing disadvantages on others. In my opinion, this theory should add a sentence: it is easier to make people laugh if people find there are more people have same feeling with them.
You make two great points: that much of comedy seems to be about allowing people to express unconscious desires that otherwise would not find expression. This is why Freud's relief theory tends to bleed into satire--it suggests comedy always to some extent comes from an ulterior motive.
回复删除The phone situation is another good illustration of Hutcheson's point that comedy requires a mix of the serious and the insignificant; it is because this experience is so common that it seems unimportant, and yet at the same time really can be so frustrating it can ruin someone's day, that we laugh at it.
It is interesting to find that insignificant thing can easily ruin someone's day over and over again without being remember, and I finally understand why my parents cannot just ignoring me after I keep making same mistakes. Maybe it is because those mistakes are insignificant in my eyes, but opposite ones in their eyes.#.#
删除Little mistakes can be very, very frustrating. yes, as both a teacher and a parent, I can say that this is something that becomes more obvious--the same things become habits that can be quite frustrating after awhile.
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