What are you Laughing at? by O'Shannon Dan

Author:O'Shannon, Dan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441114952
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

So bad it’s good: intent/reception incongruity

Any attempt at entertainment that misses its mark is setting itself up to be comedy fodder. This is because there is incongruity in the chasm between intent and reception.

We can look at movies that were created with no budgets and no talent, and laugh our heads off at the sincerity or self-importance of the project—it’s so bad it’s unintentionally good.

But we also have a tendency to do this with entertainment that has worked. How?

Because we change. As a culture we are not kind to earlier versions of ourselves. We rather unfairly hold them up to the same social and cultural rules we have in the present. The disparity creates incongruity. That’s how we can laugh at the clothes we wore in the 1970s, or the dancing we did in the 1920s or the educational films we put out in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. (Laugh away, but don’t forget to hide your senior pictures from your grandchildren.)

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