Laughing Matters Pt 1

Rowan Atkinson talks about what makes visual comedy funny through the use of humorous vignettes and Monty Python footage. Part 1 of 5.

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Film & Animation

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• Laughing
• Matters
• Rowan
• Atkinson

[gamerECHO]

yes, Rowan Atkinson is Mr. Bean.

[IamRegor]

4:23 had me laughing for 5 minutes

[deppwaswho]

smugness :)))

[thefallout08]

The banana wernt rude at all lool

[mahimahimindy]

LOL KEVIN BARTHOMOLEW !!!!!! HE IS WEARING A SLIM SUIT XD

[MKan39]

@WhiteTiger225 You are just stating the obvious, and you are bringing nothing new.

[WhiteTiger225]

@MKan39 maybe, he is explaining it in slightly humorous tones without overriding any intelligent points he makes with too much humor. The banana is not funny, but becomes a funny prop to put into play compared to a normal sized banana. The banana on the head is again an example of using it as a tool. So having a surgeon during a comedy action movie, removing bullets from the hero is not funny, BUT, if he gives no reaction as he removes a banana amongst the bullets from the victim,then its comedy

[mariogamer2000]

Nederlandse Ondertitieling!

[DarlinDevilGirl]

Oh my, this takes me back all the way to '05 in my drama class! The whole class was in fits of laughter for most of the movie!! :D thanks so much!!

[CartoonGirl3350]

we had to watch this for school this year and i forgot half of it to finish my assignment so thanks for the upload! ^-^

[er10b]

I watched this as a young fellow age 6 on VHS and loved every minute.

Props for the upload!

[MKan39]

@Brittonsp What has led me to defend the idea of "it's not funny if there isn't a bit of intellect at work in the conception and in the reception" is that, first of all, this isn't analysed, and in my opinion, it should be.

Or if the "pseudo-scholarly" analysis of visual humour is jsut a pretext to make us laugh with a lot of of visual jokes, then it was a fail.

In the bit about unexpectedly sized objects, Rowan Atkinson proves his point badly. It is neither convincing, nor funny.