Comedy Blog- Karl Werner

While I do enjoy movies like Dumb and Dumber, I prefer high comedy over the low. Oscar Wilde does an excellent job of stuffing this novel with just that stuff. There are several double entendres that I enjoyed, including Algernon's line upon learning Jack's real name: "You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw". The play there, of course, is on the word earnest and the name Ernest. I also found the witty lines throughout the act on marriage quite funny. Algernon's aunt talking about how the death of her friend's husband had significantly improved that friends life and Lane the butler's almost apologetic statement of only marrying once so far were my favorites in this regard.

As for modern humor, just log on to the Onion.com. Their satirical "news" articles are perhaps not all school friendly, but they are all brilliant and laugh-inducing. They critique nearly every corner of modern life and society. If not in the mood for reading, I would recommend one checks out some of today's preeminent sketch comedy artists. Chappelle's Show (Dave Chappelle) is a great example of this. This is most definitely not school friendly, but it intertwines high and low humor to create(it is debatable) the greatest sketch comedy in the history of mankind.