As the saying goes, "It is difficult to find a toad with three legs, but there are people with two legs." This sentence shows that toads and people have their own specific rules, and the same is true for humor.
History Chinese scholar Mr. Chen Xiaoying has a deep understanding of the laws of humor. He believes that a typical humor generally contains four relatively independent links:
1. Creating suspense - Through the narrative, description and explanation of certain plots, the audience and listeners are concerned and curious, thus breaking the original balance and creating a nervous psychological state.
2. Focus on rendering - laying the groundwork and setting off the suspense caused in many aspects;
3. Reversal - On the basis of rendering, an unexpected passage suddenly appears, interrupting the reasonable expectation that the audience is imagining, and allowing them to achieve a leap and change in understanding to the truth or law of describing the object through thinking.
4. Mutations occur - suspense is relieved, curiosity is satisfied, tension turns into easing, and the situation quickly turns to the opposite side. Mutations are different from the first three links. They do not appear in language, text or other tangible forms, but only exist in the consciousness of artists and viewers.
In crosstalk, it is important to turn three times and four times. It's similar to what we said above. All the previous three episodes play the role of "creating suspense and deliberately exaggerating". A tremor shows a reversal. This leads to a mutation in consciousness.
A: You are an old actor! (Put it out) B: Yes. A: Old expert. (Two-turn) B: Not enough. A: An old art worker. (Three-turn) B: I dare not take it. A: It’s an old fried dough stick! (Dou) B: Ah!
is creating suspense and rendering it intently. It seemed like he was complimenting the other person, but after trembling, he was old. The meaning is reversed, from compliment to it. It's just a joke.
These are standard humorous jokes, but in fact, many effects are used and broken by our living habits and the use of everyone's thinking patterns. to complete one or several of these steps. So the structure will be relatively simple.
The little rabbit said, "I was raised by the rabbit mom!" The little pig said, "I was raised by the pig mom!" The little chicken said, "I was raised by the chicken mom!" The little dog said, "You talk, I'll leave first!"
This puppy did not say it, and in fact it did not complete the shaking process, but we can automatically summarize it according to the rules presented above. The puppy will say, "I'm a bitch!", so the effect is still particularly good.
Below we will briefly introduce some methods of language humor. Since humor is like fitness and sports, it is mainly a practical issue.
The process of improving humor is very similar to that of old Chinese medicine doctors. It is a problem of constantly mastering humor materials. metaphysical has developed some methods, but the actual value is not very great, so we do not analyze and expand too much here, but just a brief introduction.
mentions metaphysics, and there is a joke about metaphysics that is particularly funny.
metaphysics, don’t go!
1. Fork-breaking method
According to Mr. Hu Fanzhu's book, its characteristics are: the logical development of language and things is suddenly interrupted, and the expectation in the heart suddenly fades, and then it slips to an unexpected, but not irrelevant end point, causing a "sudden enlightenment" smile.
On the plane, the flight attendant said to the passengers in a pleasant voice: Exhaust the cigarette, tie the seat belt, and all the passengers did as they did. After 5 minutes, the flight attendant said in a better voice than the previous time: Tighten the seat belt, we forgot to bring food on the plane.
breathing heavily when talking. The same principle is also true. Artificially making sentences causes great changes in meaning. There is a very famous example of this type:
I am the county magistrate... I sent people to your village to work for women...
This has different versions and is widely circulated in various places and is a model.
02 Misinterpretation method
cleverly introduces things that you didn't want to do into the things you originally described, thereby drawing new understandings, experiences and conclusions, and creating humor.
From a pure language perspective, it is a bit similar to the definition of logic, just like explaining the meaning of a certain word in a dictionary. In terms of form, there are generally structural forms such as "··················································································································································································································································
But its content is not an accurate explanation of the connotation and extension of a certain concept, a certain word, but based on the needs of language expression. Using language factors such as homophones and polysense, we deliberately make incorrect explanations of words. In its dynamic manifestations, there are usually factors that suddenly fail in psychological expectations. Some are factors that go against common sense.
women are to accept it! Xiao Ming: My horse is lost, I plan to post a horse hunting notice on my circle of friends. Xiaohong: No, because your horse doesn’t know how to play WeChat.
To be continued,
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. I complained to a buddy: "The people near WeChat all look like beautiful women when they look at the photos. In fact, I am basically terrible!" The buddy smiled faintly and said, "You are so naive. You say it's WeChat. If you are all beautiful, you should be called full letter!"
. Is the funny method in this joke misinterpretation or breakdown?