I absolutely
love Ellen DeGeneres chat show, and she always makes me laugh with her sarcasm
and witty humor. This was the first time I had seen the clip of the little boy
eating sprinkles and it amazed me that such a simple thing can receive over 1
million views. This raises the question as to how could a video of a little boy
who simply eats sprinkles and lies about the fact that he did, go viral. I can
definitely say that one of the reasons I loved this video was because of the
cute little boy’s face and how the camera zoomed in on his big innocent eyes.
You could see all the sprinkles dotted around his face, yet he still insisted
that he had not eaten them. It was funny to see that he thought he could get
away with this lie and how he thought he was fooling the ‘silly adults’. One of
the reasons that I find child humor so funny is because it amazes me how witty
some kids can be at such a young age. They don’t mean to be funny but some of
the things that little kids say is hilarious because it is so random and weird.
For example when the kid was on the show with his Mum, he continued to lie
about an imaginary dog named “Tick”. No
adult would ever let their imagination run wild and be so free and careless
that they could say whatever they wanted. Due to his innocence we can laugh at
the fact that the little kid was continuously lying rather than become angry
with him. I feel that the most obvious theory of comedy to explain why I
laughed would have to be incongruity theory. This is because his answers were
so different to what a typical adult would answer. Even on live TV he persisted
to be rebellious and lie to thousands of people while trying to convince us all
along that he was telling the truth.
