I thought that this clip
was very funny indeed for a number of reasons. The answers by the participants
are not planned or thought through which makes it the humor seem natural and
not staged, which for me makes it even funnier. The reason for this, is that in
a movie or show where the scene is scripted I know that the actor just read the
words of a piece of paper and did not come up with the humor themselves so I
can't give them as much credit for being funny as for example a person on a
live show where they don't eve have time to think of what to say. Straight rom
the start it is obvious that the underlying theory of comedy here is
incongruity. The words that came out of the man's mouth were so random that it
did not fit with 'the norm'. In this case the more obscure the answer and
different from a 'boring typical answer' the funnier it was. Furthermore, the
fact that it is on live television increased the extent of the humor, as even
if an inappropriate word was said, you know that they cannot change or cut
anything out.
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