Where Did the Laughs Go?: A Defense of Comedy
“You’ve never seen Friday?!” my boyfriend, Albert, exclaimed. I blinked unabashedly, shrugging my shoulders at his incredulity, and shaking my head, no. “You have to watch this movie, it’s one of my favorites. I know every line by heart, that’s how much I’ve seen it. I can’t believe you’ve never seen it. It’s really funny.” Well funny I know, I thought, assuaging my bruised ego. It was early in our relationship, and considering myself something of a connoisseur of films, I was hurt that Albert was already calling me out for not watching one of the best comedies ever made. I prided myself in having watched all the classic films that cinema had to offer, albeit I could count on one hand the number of comedies I owned: Sixteen Candles and The Mask.
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