The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that
involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers,
timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other
self-conscious structures into an "event" that triggers, by virtue
of a "cut," an expected/unexpected resolution. Using examples from
mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses from the smallest
comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches,
sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds
on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise "Laughter,"
Sigmund Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and
various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a
complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering
event that resolves with a "cut," Roof characterizes comedy not
only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden
expected/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality,
self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return
to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand
the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and
aspects of performance in multiple contexts.
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