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I think the incongruity can be a real root of funniness. I found the skeleton account to be the most persuasive. It’s very interesting that a recurring joke skeleton with different individual jokes inside it can have different reactions. I'm not surprised that all the jokes got different laughs. The joke skeleton may attract the attention of a person, but what truly matters are the individual jokes that the audience can laugh at or even relate to. An example of a joke skeleton I thought of is a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live. There is different recurring skits on the Weekend Update segment, but the one that stood out to me was the Stefon skit. John Mulaney wrote for the skits, and each time the skit tends to have the same idea of the character Stefon talking about what New York’s hottest club for the weekend is. So the joke skeleton is essentially the same on what the hottest club at the moment is. Bill Hader plays Stefon who is a New York local and knows all the weirdest places to go. Bill Hader does a good job of delivering the jokes with exaggerated facial expressions and while using a variety of voices. Within the many skits each one has different jokes. The article touched on how the same joke  skeletons can get a variety of reactions. People found some funnier than others. I can relate to this because I find some Stefon skits funny, but others I may not laugh at all or understand the joke. I also think this skit shows incongruity because it’s ludicrous and talks about the most random things. I think another reason why the skit became so popular was because it mentioned things that didn’t really fit in a situation or were inappropriate at different times. I think a lot about what comedy is is random ideas that regular people wouldn’t hear in their everyday lives. Not all incongruity can be funny because people may not like hearing things that could make them uncomfortable. I don’t find all the Stefon skits funny because some are just to weird for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NctoAyRDtzU

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  1. Shane Herron5 September 2018 at 09:42

    What do you think of Lippitt's argument that this shows that incongruity is not the real root?

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