"Rockefeller Plaza" (30 Rock):
How many can imagine the mood of this video in a English series? The closest thing we have something like that (laugh of a terrorist act) is for Torrente 3 (video here), probably the only part of the film worthwhile, and it sure does what he wants. But in a series? No balls. Besides, it is about a terrorist act abroad, but imagine the same with the 11-M. Impossible. Reading blogs
a writer learns how much we allow them to do for fear that the public to reject, to receive complaints. A clear example is the entry "See if you invent something" new blog pianist in a brothel (I also recommend the entry "Pornography" ). Years old but already has its well, I was glancing at their record last week and read that article, wherein (summarize, although it is best read everything) said he would not be allowed to do a comic plot that revolved around cancer because wanted to offend people who had family in that situation. It gave the example himself and said: "Man, if these jokes make me someone who knows I lost my father to cancer, because I do mosquearía, but the TV ... Damn, you have to assume that TV does not know your life and miracles. "
For a couple of days before reading that he had seen an episode of" Always Sunny in Philadelphia "(It's always sunny in Philadelphia) with a relatively similar argument that was not allowed to do. If there is an animated series does not get wet enough with these things is "Sunny in Philadelphia." They laughed of paraplegia, Nazism, consumption steroids, crack, transsexual, ex-combatants in Vietnam, pedophilia ( "Look, I was a handsome boy, I can understand that they play to them, not that it sucked. These kids were eating their own snot. Why what is itself sucked them and me not? "), and are now promoting the new season that seems to return to drug the entire workforce, necrophilia jokes ... And in the animated series," Father Family "takes the cake, because I can think of nothing that have not laugh. The only English series that I think has played a lot is" Aida ", which although I love it, it must be recognized that risks and it now has its merits.
Why are we laughing?
In the documentary series "Walking with Cavemen" (Walking with Cavemen) insinuated a situation as the possible origin of humor humans. A group of people were eating and a choked for a while, finally managed to spit out. A caveman started laughing, and all accompanied him, including his own choking. Is not that ultimately all the humor of this product? Is there a mood to laugh at how well someone is doing, not ridicule any person or group? So ... What we can and groups which groups can not use to laugh? There are hardly any humor that does not come from evil alien or ridicule. We are left with the confusion not offensive and absurd humor.
What bothers?
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recognize that for some issues Americans are very much his own. Especially for all you have to do with sex (or even that the naked body.) In the report following the case to see a tit for Jackson. But it seems that we are much better when you make a statement in which humor is stereotypes. The AXE for example, directly and make ads to the censor. I do not understand at what point a joke about the excessive power of attraction of a product may resent women because they are treated as object. Always put as an example something that I remember any association of men can not complain. Yes, those ads appliances in which a woman called to ask him change, it was not working well, and the final was not the appliance but the husband because it was such a fool who could not use it. I myself laughed at that ad and I am a man who certainly knows how to use the washer. Can not they be laughing women AXE ads? course, this is a little easier, because there are things that are as painful. It seems impossible at first to get cancer humor, terrorist acts or gender violence. And I often wonder to what extent permissible. Everything is also some question as to do so. Normally, the humor of cancer is not linked to cancer, but someone who is believed to have it or have confused the analysis. Is not in itself make fun of cancer, is to introduce the term. Terrorist acts as similar, not laugh at the particular act, but that often becomes somewhat parallel.
on physical disabilities, one of the best examples we have of excess politically correct is a humor writer who is in that situation and many people go wrong that he himself jokes about it. Toño called (aka "The Devil on Wheels"), has written a book "How to survive a mutation. Send eggs that is now politically incorrect to laugh at ourselves. I could not find an interesting online interview with him It was on Christmas Truce, but his first video "El Hormiguero" (which is writer program).
So how do we know what exceptions?
I remember it was in "Crimes and Misdemeanors," Woody Allen where the character of pedantic and stupid film director said that humor is tragedy more time. " As I said this odious character seems completely stupid comment, but in reality is not so hard to see that you are right when you know that once enough time has passed, one can begin to make humor of certain unpleasant events. Nobody imagine the video for "Rock" event month of the Towers. It's like morning in a newspaper made a comic strip about a plane crash with an event so recent in memory.
Another comment on what can be done with humor, and I feel I can not say they come from because I came across another, was a comedian who said you could make humor of all if you knew how. For example, some of the most unpleasant, like rape. How? Imagine raping Donald Duck Mickey Mouse.
have to know the context before making humor, and this includes time and space. For example I remember a journey in which we mixed a lot of nationalities for a visit, and in part to a given monitor to tell racist jokes. Moreover, in industrial quantities, and older than "seek to Makroute" in pretty bad taste. In a crowded bus, especially with so many sources, you can not make those jokes, always upset someone. Indeed, the first to complain was a German girl (in case anyone linked to by history perhaps thought should defend more.)
This would be slightly different in a field such as television, since being a mass medium, you can not worry about each and every one of the attendees, also one depending on which program you know what humor can be seen above. But you have to know not to be too insistent with the same groups, that seems a targeted attack. For example, in the Paramount program "High Noon", the current director of "Go Semanita" Andoni Agirregomezkorta, said the success was based on "We will stick to all, and sometimes you can laugh but you know that 5 minutes also will laugh at the other. "
The conclusion can be drawn is that we can laugh at all if we know who to tell the joke or at least, if we control the timing and frequency. The problem to put some restrictions is that eventually we could not laugh at anything, there is always someone who may feel offended by something. All the jokes would revolve around white males without physical characteristics (fat, big nose, short ...) and without any physical health problems and / or mental work and undefined nationality and no middle class political tendency, which is certainly not anything negative happens to them. But that day appear the Association of ordinary man to whom nothing happens, close the tap and we could only laugh if you tickle us, and because it is a reflex. And as said
Krusty the Clown "With humor does not play" . (And the humor ran out buddies)
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