Anna-Kathleen's Lead Blog Post Response

I liked how Anna Kathleen used a different form of comedy this week. Jeanna Robertson was funny by relating to the audience with real stories from her life compared to other clips we have been watching where they are fiction like the Office. Jeanna was funny by emphasizing important parts of her story and pausing which left room for the audience to laugh. She would also wave her hands around when she wanted to emphasize something more. Without this, she wouldn't nearly be as funny as she was. She made a big emphasis on following things to literally. Her husband got her the supplies she needed but in too big of quantities because he followed the numbers on her list. When the husband shows up with more baking supplies than she needed this could be an example of the incongruity theory. She was expecting the trip to the store to be quick and get exactly what she asked for on her list but instead, the trip took way longer than expected and she got way more than what she asked for. I thought it was interesting that she referred to her husband as the left brain, this added humor to her performance. Anna Kathleen made a good point about there is a difference between something that is funny and something that is comedy. I agree with her point! The biggest thing from this difference between the two was that retelling a situation in a story format is comedy. I also thought her example that all squares are rectangles was a good way to emphasize the difference between something being funny and something being comedy. Overall I liked how her example was different from all the clips we have been watching and this clip was a great way to explore different types of comedy.