| Term | Definition |
|---|
| (enter stage-beginning of play) | Slapstick. Comedy with the emphasis on fast physical action, farcical situations, and obvious jokes that don't depend on language. |
| N2. Shtick! A show business routine, gimmick or gag. Something comic. | Comic! Appearing in or characteristic of comedy. Something funny! |
| N2. Funny. Causing amusement. Especially enough to provoke a laugh. | Laugh. To make sounds from the throat while breathing out in short burst or gasps often causing the diaphragm to pulsate and frequently causing the soft palate to undulate on the intake-as a way of expressing amusement. |
| N2. All of these things are necessary components of comedy. | Comedy is important. |
| N2. That's right. A gifted, young comic once aptly stated it this way: It don't mean a thing...if it ain't funny. | Who said that? |
| N2. I did. | Well even though that little joke had a suck factor of a 9, on the fun-o-meter, it is a useful axiom. |
| N2. That's right! Just think of all the great movers and shakers in history. | Aristotle, Joan of Arc... |
| N2. Shakespeare, Napolean... | (insert names) Britney Spears, Michael Jackson... (together) All funny! |
| N2. So what makes things funny? | After months of painstaking research... |
| N2. ...Endless experiments... | ...Data Generation... |
| N2. ...Compilation... | ...Computation... |
| N2. ...Organization... | ...Collation... |
| N2. ...Manipulation... | ...and Constipation! |
| N2. We here at...the introduction... | ...Of the creation... |
| N2. ANd the compilation... | ...And the consummation... |
| N2. ...Of the most official documentation... | ...Of humor integration,... |
| ...Laughter instillation,... | ...And comic inculcation,... (together)...In the entire nation! |
| N2. Put in the simplest of tersm... | (together) We have the funny list. |
| N2. So without further adieu... | Class is in session. |
| N2. ...We present to you... | (together) The Rules of Comedy! (alone) Brass instrument fanfares are funny. |
| N2. Having to empty the spit valve on the instruments before the fanfare... | (together) Funny! (alone) Food by itself... |
| N2. Funny!! | Talking with mouth full...Funny. |
| N2. Food is also funny if you make use of it without eating it. | A single funny thing can increase in funniness if it is repeated. |
| N2. Three times is always funny. | Four times...(together) Not funny! (alone) Unless, an alteration is made. Illicit infatuation. Funny! |
| N2. ...The cream pie! | It harbors so much potential comic energy, nothing even has to happen. |
| N2. It's just funny. | When there is a cream pie on stage the audience waits with anticipation for...something. |
| N2. The the audience's anticipation is thwarted... | (together) Not funny! However... |
| N2. Misdirection... | ...And surprise...(together) Funny. (alone) Visual bits...(together) Funny. |
| N2. Visual bits that go on too long... | Not funny! |
| N2. Switched drinks and potions... | Or as we like to call it-playing a fun gbame of "where the heck is the poison now." |
| Five Actors. Cheers! | (together) Funny. |
| N2. Medical and Security teams are funny. | Realistic looking ghosts... |
| N2. Not funny! | A "normal guy ghost" with a sheet over his head...(together) Funny! |
| N2. Rubber chickens are funny. | Gorilla suits are funny. Even part of a gorilla suit is funny. |
| N2. Clubbing. | Clubbing with a real club...(together) NEVER FUNNY! |
| N2. Clubbing with a "flexi-club"... | (together) Funny. (alone) Point of specification. A flexi-club needs to be soft but still rigid enough to make a "thwack" sound when it hits something, like this. Funny? |
| N2. Funny! | (quietly) Ow. |
| Professor. ...Thus we have..k over m is equal to v sub zero... | Slow motion is funny@ |
| N2. Angry mobs and full stage chases are funny. | Metaphors taken literally... |
| Literal Metaphor Cast Member: I mean it's really coming down in sheets. | (together) Funny! (alone) Spit takes are funny! |
| N2. A spit take with rotten curdled milk... | (together) Even more funny! |
| N2. Simply viewing curdled milk is funny. | Yet, strangely, curdled milk seems to have an ominous power all its own. |
| N2. Translators are funny. | Blatantly wrong translation... |
| Translator. ...and my pants are too tight. | (together) Even funnier! |
| N2. Foreign accents are funny. | Completely unintelligible accents are even more funny. |
| N2. Speaking in a legitimate foreign language... | (together) Not that funny. (alone) Near misses are funny. |
| (chant at the end) | Rules, rules of comedy, glad that you could learn 'em, you may just want to burn 'em, obey each one, and when you're done, break the ruels of Comedy. |
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