Comedy's Theory of Relativity (ES) (PL)
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Premise Logic (PL)
Premise: A ballplayer is called “Who” just like pronoun
Joke: Costello fails to understand that Who is the players name.
Character Response Premise (CRP)
Funny because the Costello character is stupid.
Fails to understand Who is the players name.
Gets increasingly frustrated.
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Character Response False Premise (CRFP)
False Premise Mr. Furley mistakenly thinks Jack’s gay.When told a girlfriend’s of Jack is crying.
His response is “no wonder she’s crying”. Without false premise, response would be What’s wrong?”
No wonder she’s crying
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What if a new premise/condition exists? How will the character respond? This is called Character Response Premise (CRP)
Premise: Felix a neurotic character has to fly.
Associates security with buying flight insurance.
Joke: Wants to waste money buying insurance. Annoys everyone about insurance.
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Character Response (CR)
Stimulus for Woody is Fraser reciting the abbreviation for some degrees.
Normal Response would be to impressed by her number of degrees.
Joke:Woody responds by thinking that that’s the spelling of her name.
Premise Logic (PL)
Premise:Letters from the alphabet are recited as abbreviation for degrees.
Association: Letters from the alphabet can also be associated with spelling.
Joke: Woody thinks he’s spelling her name.
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Character Response False Premise (CRFP)
False Premise: Girl thinks Mr. Furley is her boyfriend
Joke: wants to kiss Mr. Furley
Emotional Reversal (ER)
She finds out it’s Furley
Goes from affection to violence.