Final Humour Assignment

For our humour assignment Joelle and I decided to make a comic strip of The Real Housewives of Vancouver. It is funny because the television program is local to this city, and so we recognize places that the housewives got to. It is also funny because of the over exaggerated life styles the housewives live. The comic strip is called The Stuck-Up Housewives of Vancouver and it involves two pages; one where the housewives are clothes shopping and one where they are food shopping.

The comedy is satire because it is very sarcastic and over exaggerated at the same time. It starts off with Jody (one of the housewives) trying to find her iPhone in the pile of blackberry’s in her house. This is over exaggerated but true in a way because they all have multiple phones and unnecessary technology. It then goes on to talk about Jody’s extravagant ‘coats’ which usually look like a fur rug wrapped around her body. In the comic she says she got it from Jordan’s Carpets which is the big carpet shop and makes the whole situation funnier because she does not know how ridiculous she looks. 

In the second page the housewives have gone food shopping and Ronnie complains that her personal chef can never get the right ingredients so she has to get them herself, which is obviously such a pain. Then Mary tries to join the conversation and says how there was actual dirt on her lettuce one time. Reiko gives a sarcastic gasp and Ronnie once again puts Mary down, Christina comes to Mary’s defence and suggests that they go get drunk. All of this is funny and is satire because it is over exaggerating the things that the housewives do that are so ridiculous.

The whole comic strip is satire and fits into the criteria of satire because of the over exaggerating. All of the little things that make The Real Housewives so funny have been completely over exaggerated and the characters are made to look ridiculous. To find this comic strip funny you have to have watched the show, because there are a lot of things that happened during the program which makes the comic strip funnier.

Reflection

Making a humorous piece is harder than it looks. Most of all because everybody likes different types of comedy and it’s hard to write the parts that actually make people laugh. That’s why satire is an easier kind of comedy to write because it’s not the laugh out loud kind of comedy, it is more the chuckle to yourself kind. The comic strip also only really applies to people that watch the Real Housewives of Vancouver otherwise the comic strip isn’t really funny at all. Overall I think I’ll leave the humorous writing to the funny people in the world J