1. Review your stand-up session
2. Written comedy:  Calvin, FarSide, NewYourker, Story-Joke, Other

1. Roll: do an impression of someone or something -- we guess who/what it is?
2. The collaborative story... one word at a time.
3. Acronyms.  See the list then make up your own
4. Start planning your 4 minute stand-up session (5 people per day on May 1, 8, and 15)

1. Best of the web... find 3 funny things (video, comics, jokes) and cue each on a different tab

1. Remaining animated jokes (form and spreadsheet)
2. Physical Comedy Day:
1. Mr. Bean
2. Character, setting, situation... add more small and medium actions (not large)

1. Showing the done animated jokes
2. How to Train Your Dragon

1. Find (or think of) 3 to 5 good (!) jokes and then use GoAnimate or xtranormal to make an animated dialog between two characters that tell those jokes to each other.  If they are "story-jokes" which are long, you can use fewer.
2. When done (and published), copy the URL (web address) and paste it into this form.

1. Roll with end of knock-knock joke
2. http://iwastesomuchtime.com/popular.php?sort=month
3. find "best(s) of" and leave it/them open in tab(s)

1. Roll with your superhero name
2. What things did your "research" yield
3. Improv Games:  Freeze
4. Whose Line scenes

1. Roll with the punch line to a non-existant joke
2. Categorizing comedy types
3. Classic and cutting edge comedy -- what it takes to shock America
4. During the coming week, ask people of various (older) ages, "what comedy was inappropriate or controversial when you were young"?
5. Malcolm pilot episode (didn't work)

1. Roll:  as I call your name, correct me with your Adjective Noun name
2. Whoosh, Bang, Pow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxwXhjg4D_U & amplification game
3. Why do we laugh?

1. Baby laughing
2. Try to find a good explanation of what causes laughter, and why
3. Post your findings (and the source) onto this form
1. Examples of funny stuff onto cards... we'll sort and classify next week
2. How to deal with the "appropriateness" (or inappropriateness) of material we come across in this class?
   
3. Before next week:  Come up with a line from a funny movie (or show) and we'll guess

1. Roll:  punch line from non-existant joke
2. Find three good/great jokes
3. Tell to group, w/ an "I don't get it", and explanation
4. Comedy pushing boundaries (MiM Pilot)

1. Roll:  with what comic or cartoon character would you like to spend the day?
2. The Amplification Game
3. How do you decide what is funny and what isn't?
4. History of the Joke (video from History Channel, hosted by Luis Black)

1. Mr. Bean
2. Larry Griswold (1951)

1. Bon Qui Qui at King Burger
2. each of you find two other funny women and get each cued up
   

1. list of funny cartoons or characters
2. what lines from what shows/movies have become part of our culture?
3. Select scenes from my collection OR a search-n-show of great cartoon scenes

1. Do You Speak English?
2. Charlie Speaks American
3. Argument Clinic
4. The Witch Test (Holy Grail)
5. Fruit Stand Technology
6. 0118 999 881 999 119 725      3

1. Language and content boundaries
2. Intellectually snooty humor
3. Written humor:  comics, satire, stories, even jokes
4. Find some & share out
5. Malcolm "Smunday"

1. Roll:  funny username
2. Improv activity:  scenes from a hat (writing them down and playing them out)
3. Riddles:  questions or puzzles with "funny" solution
4. Puns:  plays on words jokes that take the unexpected route
5. Acceptable comic role models (stand-up, shows, etc)
1. one or two samples
2. search for a few and find the best.... cue it up on a tab on the PC
3. showtime

1. Roll: what funny character (real or not) would you like to spend a day with, and why?
   
2. Results of your research... what pushed the limits, when, and why?
   
3. When is "random" funny, and when is it not?
4. Veggie Tales:  Silly Songs with Larry
5. Some funny commercials

1. Roll: punch line from a non-existent joke

2. Improv: Questions Only (example from Whose Line Is It?)

3. Cutting Edge... a moving target

-what it takes to make people laugh gets "edgier" with time

-ask some adults what was funny/edgy in their day

-watch pilot of Malcolm and write list of questionable aspects

1. roll with an absurd but non-random username
2. anatomy of intelligent funny stuff (Far Side)
3. making word play and building the stories
4. finding and submitting good online videos
   

1. Warm up: The Machine and/or "Line"
   
2. "We Know How it Ends"
3. Anatomy of a pun OR Malcolm episode: "Home Alone 4"
   

1. Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail
   

1. Roll:
   
2. Some funny commercials
3. Improv of the day... questions only (example)
4. Mr. Dowling...
   

1. Roll: what funny character (real or not) would you like to spend a day with, and why?
   
2. Results of your research... what pushed the limits, when, and why?
   
3. When is "random" funny, and when is it not?
4. Veggie Tales:  Silly Songs with Larry
   
5. Joke sites and hall of fame (be sure to be appropriate, only change your row or an empty column header)
   

1. Roll:  as I call your name respond with your favorite knock knock line
2. The Amplification game
3. The Everlasting Sentence game
   
4. Funny Acronyms... see list then make up your own
   
5. Why do we laugh?
1. Try to find a good explanation of what causes laughter, and why
2. Post your findings (and the source) onto this form
6. Sort and classify examples of funny stuff on cards.  Try to come up with groups
7. Tell us a line from a funny movie (or show) and we'll guess

1. Roll:  as I call your name, correct me with your Adjective Noun name
2. Whoosh, Bang, Pow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxwXhjg4D_U
3. How do you decide what is funny and what isn't.
1. Watch a stand-up segment and graph (timeline) your laugh-scale, marking what causes rise in your graph
   
4. Why do we laugh?
1. Baby laughing
2. Try to find a good explanation of what causes laughter, and why
3. Post your findings (and the source) onto this form
5. Examples of funny stuff onto cards... we'll sort and classify next week
6. How to deal with the "appropriateness" (or inappropriateness) of material we come across in this class?
   
7. Before next week:  Come up with a line from a funny movie (or show) and we'll guess
   

1. Exaggeration Circle
2. Scrambled Eggs
   
3. Big Booty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzRXoI-nJJU

1. I'm afraid not vs I a frayed knot
2. 
   
3. 
   

1. Nakiyan
2. Dean
3. Harrison
4. Amanda
5. Sarah
6. Dominic
7. Jack
8. Michael
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