The Comedy Circle

Whenever I could catch Wonder Showzen, I would plant myself in front of the TV and wait for the laughter to be induced. At first, I was a little shocked that a show like that was airing on MTV 2. A show that pushes hard to be dumb but turns brilliant; or pushes hard to be brilliant but turns dumb, in which case, the original aim for brilliance is achieved when you inspect its remains. (Like inspecting a dead opossum, who some argue is one of the dumbest animals living today)

I think it’s somewhere in between.

It made me think of circles. About two years ago, I was obsessed with circles. I don’t know what brought on this obsession but I wanted to explain everything with a circle. I remember running into an old friend in the library and explaining whatever I was thinking about at the moment with a circle. She didn’t understand a thing I was saying, and in retrospect, I didn’t either. But here, two years later, I made this illustration to explain what I was thinking after I saw a clip of Wonder Showzen on Youtube:

Isn’t it lovely? I like it.

Anyway, as you can see “Dumb” and “Genius” are linked by two points. At the beginning of the clip, it was at one point; and then, at the end of the clip, it was at another point. With that clip, I started on the dumb point and eventually it progressed into the genius point. The interesting idea that this illustration brings to me is that on the second viewing of the clip, I started on the genius point and then it progressed into the dumb point. At the end of my second viewing, did it reach the genius point again or the dumb point? I am not sure. I didn’t see it a second time. But I could see both outcomes happening.

Clip being discussed.

~ por Jan Coztás en Febrero 11, 2007.