In Comedy writing chapter one you learn the fundamentals of how to start being funny, whether writing or speaking. You learn about the three R’s: respect, remembrance, and rewards. All of these are said to benefit you as a humorist. You then learn of the map to being a successful humorist. This map is a triangle between material, performer and the audience. All of which rely on each other to be successful. Finally you learn how that it is important to read your audience and the type of people present. In Laughing Matters by Bergson he compares a human being with a machine and how humor is parallel to how a machine works. In Laughing Matters by Hemley he talks about different stories he thinks are funny that he has either created through imagination or that he has experienced in life. He talks about life stories with his daughter and friends who have helped him grow famous as well as how daydreaming and fantasies have also helped his writing be humorous. He ends with talking about surprising oneself is what makes things funny. How humorist will take something simple and twist it into something of the unknown which makes us laugh and think it’s funny.
I really enjoyed reading “Relaxing the Rules of Reason”. Although I do not completely follow what the rules of reason are or why exactly they need to be relaxed I did find the essay to be the most interesting of all the readings. Hemely gave examples of how humorists work in order to create humorous stories or essays. He gave example of real life situations where he finds humor as well as in his daydreaming where he makes up fantasies. He also helped break down the works of Bergson which completely confused me. I did not understand at all what he was talking about most of the time. I did not understand how he was making a connection with humans being funny with a machine. He would continue to talk about human worlds such as soul, rigid, tension, elasticity which would confuse me as to what they pertain to.
Question: What was Bergson talking about in his essay?
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