Comedy and Stupidity

What types of comedy elements are present in Dumb and Dumber? (select all that apply)

• Verbal jokes on bodily function

• Deadpan humour

• Slapstick

• Physical humour

Performance is the interaction between... (select all that apply).

• Text

• Character

• Performer

• Audience

Why do audiences find Jim Carrey’s performance in Dumb and Dumber funny? (select all that apply)

• They identify with the characters

• Jim Carrey signifies them to laugh

• They feel inferior

• Jim Carrey’s exaggerated physical expressions

_ argues that in comedian comedy, narrative and performance are opposed to each other, whereas _ believes they work together.

• Drake, Seidman

• Seidman, Drake

Representational modes of performance are those that acknowledge the audience.

Presentational modes are those in which performance is effaced by narrative.

• True

• False

Most comedian comedies aim for a _ realism.

• classical Hollywood

• false

• sufficient

• indistinguishable

Drake argues that representational and presentational modes of performance are _ each other.

• in opposition with

• ambivalent to

• counter-productive to

• mutually supportive of

Different modes of performance do not need to co-exist at the same time.

• True

• False