Humour

I want the humour in my sketch to be quite dry and simple just to make people chuckle. I think this is the right approach to to my little comic as it means it is 'easy reading' By this I mean that you could sit down on the buss or on a break and quickly have a read of it to give someone a bit of a laugh. This is partly why i have had the idea to keep the images as pen sketches and avoid color if i can. With this being a college project I am aware that with me wanting to do toilet humour, it might not be appropriate. However i am going to try and get round that in a subtle way so that i can suggest something without actually putting it so people can interpret it as they wish. Also by using this i might help my comic work on two levels. A bit like doctor who or simpsons in a way. Were adults can watch it and get the more adult jokes and be more aware of maybe political jokes in it for example. Which the kids just laugh because of the slap stick humour.

This is a good example. This is a simpsons episode where they go to live in this house in a ski resort for the winter season, but because homer has had no beer or tv homer has gone crazy. Kids however will find this funny for different reasons that the adults do. This is because it is actually doing a parody version of the Shinning were he does crazy. So most adults will have seen this as it is a iconic movie. But kids will find it funny because of little things like him looking in the mirror and scarring him self. So in this episode you could argue that the adults are the primary audience and kids the secondary. However usually with the simpsons kids are the main audience.