Responce to Cawood's Blog

I think animal humor is one of my favorite kinds of modern comedy because it is so innocent. No one gets hurt watching animals doing their thing. I really enjoyed the two videos Cawood posted. My favorite part in the long video was the groundhog that was saying "Alan!" because it was so repetitive. I loved how he kept popping up between other scenes. I think the idea for this video is so clever. BBC realized that they had a lot of boring footage of animals just hanging out and living their lives and decided to make something funny out of it. I have always wondered what companies that make animal/nature films do during their off time while animals aren't doing anything, and I think this would lend itself to a good downtime activity. Giving personalities to things that can't tell us how they are feeling always makes me laugh and I'm sure that would fill the empty time editing through a bunch of empty animal footage. On that note, I feel like filming animals like this is similar to filming the Kardashians. They have to sort through a bunch of empty footage. I think it would be hilarious to do something like a Bad Lip Reading to the Kardashians. It would be similar to a video like this.

Unexpected humor like this is really why this was successful. When you click on the video you aren't sure what you're going to get unless you already know about it, and in that case you know it's going to be funny. As Cawood pointed out, this is a perfect example of incongruity theory.