Blog response #3

Whenever I watched YouTube in middle school it was always Key and Peele. I would show all my friends the substitute teacher video and each time laugh so hard my stomach hurt. My favorite name the substitute teacher butchered was Jacqueline. Whenever I meet people with the names Blake, Timothy, Denise, and Aaron I feel like I should pronounce them the way the teacher does. When I meet people with those names, out of habit I ask have you seen this video when he butchers the names? I feel like it is similar to when people come up to me and say have you heard the song sweet Caroline? People will automatically just start singing it. For whoever has those names I feel bad for them and how people will now butcher their names. The fraternity branding one makes me laugh so hard as well. It’s so funny to me how two people can act as so many people and play each role equally as well. Another skit that makes me laugh, but isn’t mentioned is the football roster one called East/West Bowl. It’s very clever how Key and Peele are able to pretend they are a full football roster just by changing their hair and some of them their voices. The names they say are so funny because in some of them they just make random noises. I agree that their humor is superiority theory because I laugh at their pain a lot of the times. I also think their humor is incongruity theory because they will do the most random things. Watching the substitute teacher saying the names the first time I was so surprised the way they were all pronounced. In the other skits when something goes wrong it’s so unexpected. I never know what Key and Peele are going to do next. Their comedy always surprises me.

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  1. Unknown26 September 2018 at 12:49

    I'm glad that I'm not the only one who hears these names and thinks back to "Substitute Teacher." While on vacation in Ireland over the summer I saw a sign for "O'Shaughnessy Florist" and died laughing. I also agree with what you said about incongruity in the videos.

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  2. Shane Herron28 September 2018 at 07:06

    It is an interesting mix between superiority and incongruity. I agree that we laugh "at" the characters more in these skits than in most, and I wonder why that is? I also feel bad for any Aaron's out there because I always now pronounce their name as Aa-Ron.

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