l A similar argument has been made by Terry Palmer. What can count as comic is dependent in part upon socio-cultural rules, conventions, and conditions:
l Within our society, formal comedy is marked as potentially comic because it is produced and circulated within the institutions of ‘entertainment’ and because these institutions designate some of the utterances they circulate in this way.
l The utterance themselves are invested with cues in the form of generic conventions: comedies tend to involve certain familiar performers and they tend to be titled in certain ways rather than others.
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l These conventions can be marked outside the confines of the utterance itself, forming a part of the ‘narrative image’ of a film or programme.
l In stand-up performances, comedians often use routine phrases like ‘Have you heard the one about….’ to introduce and signal their jokes.
l The features that mark them are features of humour.
l Both for classical and neoclassical theory, the comic is characterized in terms of “the ludicrous” and “the ridiculous”: Comedy is an imitation of baser men. These are characterized not by every kind of vice but specifically by the ridiculous, which is a subdivision of the category of deformity. What we mean by ‘the ridiculous’ is some error or ugliness that is painless and has no harmful effects.(Aristotle)
l The site of the ludicrous and the ridiculous may either be mind (in the form of ignorance, imprudence, credulity, the making of an error or mistake) or the body ( in the form of ugliness, deformity, ill-fitting or inappropriate garments, and so on).
l People are ludicrous or ridiculous in appearance as well as in speech or action: because of bodily or facial expression, or gesture, or motion, or physical activity, or dress.
l The monstrous is never ridiculous.
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Fan Bei, 2012. The production and effect of Chinese low-budget comedy film. M.A. thesis, Bei Jing Film Academy
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