Some comedies are endlessly watchable, while others are embarrassing once you watch them. These are the three core differences.

1. Embarrassment, frustration, slap in the face, bad luck, embarrassment, making jokes

The core of all comedies must be the embarrassment of the characters. The key characters must be embarrassed, embarrassed, and teased in order to make the audience laugh. The most basic ones are of course falling, getting stuck, bumping your head, etc. Then there are all kinds of embarrassing and embarrassing things that you may encounter in life, and they are applied to the character.

For example, in Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's "Protagonist and Supporting Role", a core laugh point is that the protagonist played by Zhu Shimao is teased in various ways by Chen Peisi's supporting role. Zhu Shimao asked Chen Peisi not to steal the scene. He had to use various means to steal it and embarrass Zhu Shimao. The most glorious moment of the whole play was when Chen Peisi thought he was playing the leading role, but he didn't expect that in the end he became a supporting role and was shot dead by Zhu Shimao.

For example, when Zhao Benshan sells abductors, Fan Wei is deceived and deceived throughout the whole process, showing his ugly face, and he plays an honest and a bit stupid cook to life. He made a fool of himself, and the audience laughed. Gao Xiumin didn't believe that Zhao Benshan could fool a normal person at first, but later she was slapped in the face. These are all jokes. The highlight of the whole drama "What kind of bicycle do you want" is that Gao Xiumin didn't say she wanted a bicycle at all, but Zhao Benshan "falsely accused" her and said she wanted a bicycle, which made her embarrassed.

In the past few thousand years, people have not seen so many embarrassing things in their lives. Nowadays, people's daily life is surrounded by short videos. When you open the short video, you can immediately see all kinds of real videos of making a fool of yourself and being embarrassed, which will make people laugh. This also means that if you continue to create comedy content such as falling and bumping into short videos, which are commonplace in short videos, you will not be able to produce much comedy effect.

Only by showing embarrassing things that are not seen in short videos and are not common in life can it produce obvious comedy effects.

2. Information gap

Some key information is already known to the audience, but not to the characters. This puts the audience into a higher perspective and looks down on the characters.

For example, when Zhao Benshan sells abducted human beings, the audience knows from the beginning that he wants to sell the abducted person to a normal person. So from the beginning to the end, everyone knew about this except Fan Wei, so the audience felt more involved in the fact that he was being tricked.

For example, in Zhao Benshan's "Heart Disease", everyone including the audience knows that Fan Wei is not terminally ill at all, but Zhao Benshan and Gao Xiumin deceived him. Fan Wei was the only one who didn't know. He really believed that he was terminally ill, so he said some ridiculous things.

Compared to the person who is going to embarrass you, the audience knows a secret or key information in advance, but the person who is going to embarrass you does not know it. Then the audience will have an expectation and form a sense of psychological superiority, waiting to see how this person will be embarrassed.

3. Sense of immersion

Any comedy requires exaggeration. Exaggeration is easy to understand. Comedy often needs to exaggerate a conflict or feature in order to amplify the "laughing effect". But the reason why many comedies are not funny is that they appear too unreal after being exaggerated, making it impossible for people to feel immersed in them.

No matter how special the roles and characters are, or how rare the story background is, a reasonable or seemingly reasonable explanation must be given, otherwise there will be no sense of substitution.

Even if it is a nonsensical Zhou comedy, Stephen Chow only uses nonsensical techniques at a single point, but the entire plot itself is logical and can give people a sense of belief.

The whole scene in "Kung Fu" is exaggerated, but in order to give the audience a sense of involvement and not feel fake, Stephen Chow laid the groundwork with strict logic. For example, Stephen Chow asked a fat man to throw a dart and ended up throwing it at him. It was a classic joke - embarrassing. After being seriously injured, Stephen Chow quickly returned to normal in a few hours at a traffic light. This plot paved the way for "he is a peerless master who is unique among ten thousand", and will not make the finale of being unable to kill him seem abrupt.

A bad comedy will not be enjoyable to watch if it fails to do these three things well. As for a good comedy writer, in addition to doing these three things well, his greater spirituality lies in finding a situation suitable for these three points.

Many situations naturally have the conditions to make characters embarrassed, such as "a thief pretending to be a policeman but met a real policeman" played by Chen Peisi. In this situation, can the thief not be embarrassed? Can you not be embarrassed? Can you not be embarrassed?

Many people can't find a suitable situation and force the characters to be embarrassed, which seems very unreasonable and makes the audience lose their sense of involvement.

I am Gao Zige who likes comedy. You are welcome to share your views in the comment area.