Response to Alex
I personally had never seen these videos before and was a little unsure if I would find them humorous when looking at the description. At the beginning of the "pregnant" video I was skeptical of the video's content. Then the misspellings kept getting more and more absurd. I was laughing trying to imagine how anyone could spell something that wrong and not realize that they've done that. Alex points out the aspects of how these videos touch on some of the more touchy or sensitive topics. The idea of pregnancy and sex for the first video. And sex and even the mention of the destruction of a school full of innocent children in the second video. These items are usually censored as Alex said in his blog, and also why they are probably found humorous. Alex also says most videos that fall under the incongruity theory have a sense of unpredictabilty to them but these videos to me are so absurd that I couldn't even begin to guess the poor spelling of the next segment of the video. In the sims video the absurdity continues with the ridiculous patches made to the game. Im not familiar with the sims game but I do understand the concept. The fact that these are real updates in a game is hard to believe and is pretty hilarious. I found the update about the meteor the most humorous. The fact that all sims will leave a building about to be hit but not schools is a little messed up. The fact that it is messed up is probably why people find it humorous. Both of these videos show the absurdity theory and are very humorous. Alex explained them well and gave some very interesting takes on them.
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Like you, I found both of the videos really hilarious. I think you are totally correct about how the topics found in the videos in many ways made the videos funny because they are taboo. For myself however, I found the second video very difficult to explain using any of the comedy theories. I think the subject matter definitely has to have something to do with it though.
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